How Analyst Radar works
What Wall Street analysts think, in one place. Analyst Radar gathers the ratings and price targets that Wall Street analysts publish on US stocks and shows them side by side, so you can see in seconds what the analysts covering a company think.
Where the data comes from
Ratings and price targets come from publicly available analyst research on the stocks of the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, Russell 2000 and Dow Jones. We check it every day and keep each report with its own date.
Where a report can be reached, the report history links to it; otherwise it links to the issuing firm's website.
How ratings are counted
Every analyst gets one vote: their latest Buy, Hold or Sell on the stock. Firms that use other words (Outperform, Neutral, Underweight…) are mapped to these three.
The analyst window decides how far back a vote may be: the last 1, 3, 6 or 12 months, or “By firm”, which uses each firm's most recent report day. When sources disagree on a report, it is marked as conflicting and left out.
The average target is the mean of the analysts' latest price targets in US dollars; upside is that average against the current price. The target range is the lowest and highest target, not a forecast.
Radar picks
Radar picks lists the stocks our model scores highest in each index, in two views: Top Picks, upside that analysts agree on, and Safest consensus, where analysts agree most on both the rating and the price.
Scores come from our own algorithm, built on methods from published research on evaluating analyst forecasts and predicting from them. Radar lists use six months of analyst ratings and price targets; stock details label the score window separately. Scores are recomputed as stored research and prices update. Not investment advice.
Scores run from 0 to 100 and compare a stock with the rest of its index. Only scores of 80 and above are listed: 90 and above is Strong, 80–89 is Good. A stock needs enough analysts and firms behind it to be scored at all.
ETF implied targets
An ETF has no analyst target of its own. We take the fund's holdings and their weights, value each holding at its average analyst target, and roll them up into one implied target for the fund.
A fund gets a target only when most of its weight is covered by holdings with both a target and a price. The bear and bull cases put every covered holding at its lowest or highest target. Holdings are refreshed weekly, analyst targets daily.
Questions
- Is this investment advice?
- No. A summary of analyst opinion, not investment advice. Analyst ratings and targets are opinions, and they are often wrong.
- How fresh is the data?
- Analyst research is checked every day. Prices stream live during the US session and are otherwise stored prices delayed about 15 minutes. Each page shows when its data was checked.
- Why do some stocks have no rating or no upside?
- A stock needs at least one current analyst rating in the chosen window to be counted, and a current price in US dollars with dated targets to show upside.
- Why can a stock score differently in two indices?
- Radar scores compare a stock with the other members of the same index, so the same company can rank higher in one index than in another.