analyst ratings definitions
Ratings Definitions. Fitch Ratings publishes opinions on a variety of scales. The most common of these are credit ratings, but the agency also publishes ratings, scores and other relative opinions relating to financial or operational strength. For example, Fitch also provides specialized ratings of servicers of residential and commercial mortgages, asset managers and funds. Standardized metrics from analysts covering the company and the market provide such comparisons. Informed investors use these standardized measurements along with an evaluation of the analysts making the estimates to form part of their investment methodology. Morningstar Analyst Rating for Funds. Unlike the backward-looking Morningstar Rating™ (often referred to as the star rating), which assigns 1 to 5 stars based on a fund's past risk- and load-adjusted returns versus category peers, the Analyst Rating is the summary expression of Morningstar's forward-looking analysis of a fund. The Analyst Rating is based on the analyst's conviction in the fund's ability to outperform its peer group and/or relevant benchmark on a risk-adjusted basis over the long term. Understanding Analyst Ratings. Loading the player... In order to reach an opinion and communicate the value and volatility of a covered security, analysts research public financial statements, listen in on conference calls and talk to managers and the customers of a company, typically in an attempt to capture the findings for a research report. Consensus Ratings for Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:ATVI) (?) The ratings breakdown includes the most recent rating from each analyst that has rated the stock within the last twelve months. Underweight (stock market) In financial markets, underweight is a term used when rating stock. A rating system may be three-tiered: overweight, equal weight, and underweight, or five-tiered: buy, overweight, hold, underweight, and sell. Also used are outperform, neutral, underperform, and buy, accumulate, hold, reduce, and sell. The company reported $0.86 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.73 by $0.13. The business had revenue of $2.45 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.39 billion. Activision Blizzard had a return on equity of 16.70% and a net margin of 13.86%. Activision Blizzard's revenue for the quarter was up 81.2% compared to the same quarter last year. The Salt. In order to truly understand analyst ratings, it is imperative to gauge the accuracy. Below are three crucial moments in the lives of three well-known companies and the analyst ratings before the impressive lift-off, or dismal implosion, to see if the analysts got it right. Analyst Research Summary. The Analyst Research Summary page shows graphical representations of a company's Consensus Recommendation, Detailed Analyst Recommendation, 12 Month Price Target Range, Earnings Surprise, Momentum (4 Weeks), Detailed Estimates Submitted, Earnings Growth, Price/Earnings, Consensus Earnings Forecasts and PEG Ratio.
It is defined as the summary expression of Morningstar's forward-looking analysis of a fund.