Quantisnow Analyst Sentiment Index
Analyst sentiment in August 2022
Last updated . Recomputed daily.
In August 2022, analysts issued 166 upgrades and 473 downgrades on stocks tracked by Quantisnow, an upgrade-to-downgrade ratio of 0.35 (July: 0.43).
Key figures
- Upgrades
- 166
- Prior month: 210
- Downgrades
- 473
- Prior month: 487
- Upgrade-to-downgrade ratio
- 0.35
- Prior month: 0.43
- Coverage initiated
- 285
- Prior month: 360
- Ratings reiterated
- 117
- Prior month: 201
- All rating actions
- 1,041
- Prior month: 1,258
Upgrades and downgrades by sector, August 2022
| Sector | Upgrades | Downgrades | Ratio | All actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Discretionary | 31 | 113 | 0.27 | 232 |
| Technology | 23 | 84 | 0.27 | 199 |
| Health Care | 18 | 78 | 0.23 | 175 |
| Industrials | 23 | 58 | 0.40 | 126 |
| Finance | 15 | 45 | 0.33 | 86 |
| Real Estate | 16 | 33 | 0.48 | 60 |
| Energy | 13 | 16 | 0.81 | 41 |
| Telecommunications | 1 | 13 | 0.08 | 30 |
| Consumer Staples | 6 | 8 | 0.75 | 25 |
| Utilities | 8 | 7 | 1.14 | 20 |
| Basic Materials | 4 | 8 | 0.50 | 20 |
| Miscellaneous | 3 | 4 | 0.75 | 12 |
| Unclassified | 2 | 4 | 0.50 | 9 |
| Public Utilities | 1 | 2 | 0.50 | 3 |
| Transportation | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 2 |
| n/a | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 |
Methodology
Every analyst rating action Quantisnow receives is stored with its brokerage, prior and new rating, and price target. Each action is classified as an upgrade, downgrade, initiation of coverage, resumption of coverage or reiteration (which includes price-target-only changes).
The upgrade-to-downgrade ratio is upgrades divided by downgrades for the month. Sector comes from the covered company's profile; companies without a sector are grouped as Unclassified.
Figures are recomputed daily from the Quantisnow event database. The current month is marked as month to date until it closes; closed months are recomputed for a few days after month end to pick up late filings, then stay fixed.
Definitions for every column are in the JSON download.
Metric definitions
- Upgrades
- (
upgrades) - Downgrades
- (
downgrades) - Upgrade-to-downgrade ratio
- (
ratio): Upgrades divided by downgrades. Above 1.00 means more upgrades than downgrades. - Coverage initiated
- (
initiations) - Ratings reiterated
- (
reiterations) - All rating actions
- (
total)
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Quantisnow. (2026). Quantisnow Analyst Sentiment Index, August 2022 [Data set]. Retrieved October 27, 2026, from https://www.quantisnow.com/data/analyst-ratings/2022-08
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