Wall Street analysts
What the sell-side says about a stock — price targets, grades and estimates — quoted as theirs, firm by firm, and kept apart from the site's own models.
- Address
- /stocks/<ticker>/analysts
- Whose figures
- The analysts' own, quoted with the firm's name
- Counted
- Each firm's latest target and grade
- Used by the models
- Their estimates, yes; their targets and grades, never
Theirs, not the site's
The Wall St. Analysts page shows what sell-side analysts have published about a stock: price targets, grades and estimates. Every figure is theirs, quoted with the firm's name, and the grade words in the table are the firm's own, in quotation marks. Nothing on the page comes from the site's models; it sits at the end of the Valuation tab's list as a second opinion beside them.
Targets
The page counts each firm's latest target only, so a firm that revised its target three times counts once. The median target and the range across firms come from targets published recently; an old target from a firm that has since gone quiet is left out. Each firm's target is set against the latest close, and the history of targets is drawn over the price.
Grades and changes
Each firm's latest grade is grouped as positive, neutral or negative, counted over the last twelve months. Upgrades and downgrades are listed with their date, the most recent first.
Estimates
The consensus revenue and earnings per share for the coming years, each with the low and high estimate and the number of analysts behind it. The overview's 03 Growth section sets them beside the company's own last five years.
What the models take from it
The estimates, not the opinions. A DCF follows the revenue consensus for its first three years, and the P/E, EV and PEG models set the analysts' next-year figures beside the last reported ones. The price targets and the grades are never an input — setting the models beside the analysts' targets is only a fair comparison while the targets stay out of them.