Strong Sell

  

See: Strong Buy.

It’s an almost-never-seen rating these days. Analysts hate to insult companies this way. But every now and then, a stock price gets crazy. An analyst grows a pair. And sends out this rating. The stock usually craters. And the CFO doesn’t return the analyst’s call for a really long time. Boo-hoo.

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Finance allah shmoop what is a stock rating Buy sell

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self side analyst who writes investment reports on the favorability

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or lack thereof of buying a given stock or bond

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at a given price They're framed generally as within this

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stocks would pick stocks and do that for a living

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margin spread from the business for decades the role of

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