Which stocks are analysts upgrading and downgrading?
Wall Street analysts’ rating changes make headlines and can move a stock for a day or two. Seeing them together shows where professional opinion is shifting across the market.
Updated Oct 6, 2026
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Over the past 30 days analysts made 121 rating changes on S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 stocks: 65 upgrades and 56 downgrades. The most upgraded were SNPS, ABNB, CBOE; the most downgraded, PTC, COO, ACN. In our research, rating changes did not reliably predict returns, so treat this as information, not a signal.
The balance of rating changes
First, upgrades minus downgrades each month since 2015, with recessions shaded. Select a tile or any stock below for its past year.
The most upgraded and downgraded stocks
The 30 stocks with the most net upgrades and the 30 with the most net downgrades over the past 30 days. Select a column to sort.
| Stock | Changes | Upgrades | Downgrades | Latest change | 1M | Past year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNPS Synopsys | 4Upgraded | 4 | 0 | HSBC: Hold to Buy, Sep 25 | +28% | |
| ABNB Airbnb | 2Upgraded | 2 | 0 | Keybanc: Sector Weight to Overweight, Oct 2 | −12% | |
| CBOE Cboe Global Markets | 2Upgraded | 2 | 0 | TD Cowen: Hold to Buy, Oct 5 | −7% | |
| DG Dollar General | 2Upgraded | 2 | 0 | Gordon Haskett: Hold to Buy, Oct 6 | −7% | |
| PAYX Paychex | 2Upgraded | 2 | 0 | JP Morgan: Underweight to Neutral, Sep 24 | −17% | |
| ABT Abbott Laboratories | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | Rothschild & Co: Neutral to Buy, Oct 2 | −9% | |
| BALL Ball Corporation | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | JP Morgan: Neutral to Overweight, Sep 18 | −8% | |
| CASY Casey's | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | Raymond James: Market Perform to Outperform, Sep 10 | −18% | |
| CF CF Industries | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | Rothschild & Co: Sell to Neutral, Sep 28 | −13% | |
| CHRW C.H. Robinson | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | Citigroup: Neutral to Buy, Sep 8 | −9% | |
| CIEN Ciena | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | Evercore ISI Group: In Line to Outperform, Sep 21 | +38% | |
| COIN Coinbase | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | Compass Point: Sell to Neutral, Sep 14 | +1% | |
| COST Costco | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | Freedom Broker: Hold to Buy, Sep 8 | +2% | |
| CTVA Corteva | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | JP Morgan: Neutral to Overweight, Oct 6 | – | |
| DLTR Dollar Tree | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | Loop Capital: Hold to Buy, Oct 1 | −12% | |
| ED Consolidated Edison | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | Wells Fargo: Equal Weight to Overweight, Oct 1 | −2% | |
| EL Estée Lauder Companies (The) | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | Barclays: Equal Weight to Overweight, Oct 5 | −10% | |
| ETN Eaton Corporation | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | UBS: Neutral to Buy, Sep 8 | +8% | |
| EXR Extra Space Storage | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | Truist Securities: Hold to Buy, Oct 2 | −4% | |
| FDS FactSet | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | William Blair: Market Perform to Outperform, Sep 8 | −10% | |
| FITB Fifth Third Bancorp | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | Citigroup: Neutral to Buy, Sep 22 | −7% | |
| FSLR First Solar | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | Keybanc: Underweight to Sector Weight, Sep 28 | −12% | |
| HUM Humana | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | Barclays: Equal Weight to Overweight, Sep 25 | +1% | |
| INTC Intel | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | Northland Capital Markets: Market Perform to Outperform, Sep 8 | +17% | |
| INVH Invitation Homes | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | Mizuho: Neutral to Outperform, Sep 21 | −7% | |
| JBHT J.B. Hunt | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | Citizens: Market Perform to Market Outperform, Sep 17 | −17% | |
| LMT Lockheed Martin | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | UBS: Neutral to Buy, Sep 8 | −3% | |
| LUV Southwest Airlines | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | Rothschild & Co: Sell to Neutral, Sep 18 | +7% | |
| MET MetLife | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | Piper Sandler: Neutral to Overweight, Sep 22 | 0% | |
| MLM Martin Marietta Materials | 1Upgraded | 1 | 0 | Wells Fargo: Equal Weight to Overweight, Sep 9 | −5% | |
| NOC Northrop Grumman | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | RBC Capital: Outperform to Sector Perform, Oct 2 | −6% | |
| MRNA Moderna | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | Citigroup: Neutral to Sell, Sep 30 | +29% | |
| MPC Marathon Petroleum | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | Jefferies: Buy to Hold, Sep 22 | +11% | |
| MOS Mosaic Company (The) | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | RBC Capital: Outperform to Sector Perform, Oct 5 | −19% | |
| MKC McCormick & Company | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | TD Cowen: Buy to Hold, Sep 14 | −13% | |
| LYB LyondellBasell | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | Citigroup: Buy to Neutral, Sep 30 | −7% | |
| LII Lennox International | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | Deutsche Bank: Buy to Hold, Sep 14 | −6% | |
| ICE Intercontinental Exchange | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | TD Cowen: Buy to Hold, Oct 5 | −5% | |
| HIG Hartford (The) | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | Mizuho: Outperform to Neutral, Sep 16 | −8% | |
| FICO Fair Isaac | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | B of A Securities: Buy to Neutral, Sep 30 | −25% | |
| ESS Essex Property Trust | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | Mizuho: Outperform to Neutral, Sep 8 | −2% | |
| EIX Edison International | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | Jefferies: Hold to Underperform, Oct 2 | −4% | |
| DOW Dow Inc. | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | Citigroup: Buy to Neutral, Sep 30 | −4% | |
| CMCSA Comcast | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | Keybanc: Sector Weight to Underweight, Sep 25 | −19% | |
| CHTR Charter Communications | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | Wolfe Research: Peer Perform to Underperform, Sep 14 | −29% | |
| CCI Crown Castle | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | JP Morgan: Neutral to Underweight, Sep 14 | −10% | |
| BSX Boston Scientific | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | Citigroup: Buy to Neutral, Sep 17 | −12% | |
| BMY Bristol Myers Squibb | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | Leerink Partners: Outperform to Market Perform, Oct 5 | −11% | |
| BBY Best Buy | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | DA Davidson: Buy to Neutral, Sep 8 | −6% | |
| ATO Atmos Energy | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | JP Morgan: Overweight to Neutral, Sep 11 | −5% | |
| ARE Alexandria Real Estate Equities | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | JP Morgan: Neutral to Underweight, Sep 24 | −13% | |
| APTV Aptiv | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | JP Morgan: Overweight to Neutral, Sep 15 | −7% | |
| ALGN Align Technology | 1Downgraded | 0 | 1 | Evercore ISI Group: Outperform to In Line, Oct 5 | −11% | |
| NKE Nike, Inc. | 3Downgraded | 1 | 2 | Freedom Broker: Sell to Buy, Oct 2 | −10% | |
| NFLX Netflix | 3Downgraded | 1 | 2 | Deutsche Bank: Hold to Buy, Sep 29 | −12% | |
| PEP PepsiCo | 2Downgraded | 0 | 2 | JP Morgan: Overweight to Neutral, Sep 29 | −9% | |
| AMGN Amgen | 2Downgraded | 0 | 2 | HSBC: Buy to Hold, Sep 10 | −8% | |
| ACN Accenture | 2Downgraded | 0 | 2 | Guggenheim: Buy to Neutral, Sep 18 | +4% | |
| COO Cooper Companies (The) | 4Downgraded | 0 | 4 | William Blair: Outperform to Market Perform, Sep 10 | −19% | |
| PTC PTC Inc. | 5Downgraded | 0 | 5 | Loop Capital: Buy to Hold, Oct 5 | +37% |
How to read this page
How it’s measured. Rating changes by brokerage analysts on S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 stocks, from FMP. An upgrade or downgrade is a change in a firm’s rating; reiterations and new coverage are left out. Firms use different scales, such as Buy, Overweight and Outperform.
Sources. Daily prices and analysts’ estimates and ratings from Financial Modeling Prep.
In our research, analysts’ rating changes and the balance of their ratings did not reliably predict a stock’s later returns. Earnings surprises carried more information.
Ratings lean heavily toward Buy, so a downgrade to Hold often says more than an upgrade to Buy.
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