Quantisnow Analyst Sentiment Index
Analyst sentiment in October 2026
October 2026 is still in progress; figures are month to date and update daily.
Last updated . Recomputed daily.
In October 2026, analysts issued 263 upgrades and 295 downgrades on stocks tracked by Quantisnow, an upgrade-to-downgrade ratio of 0.89 (September: 1.00).
Key figures
- Upgrades
- 263
- Prior month: 206
- Downgrades
- 295
- Prior month: 205
- Upgrade-to-downgrade ratio
- 0.89
- Prior month: 1.00
- Coverage initiated
- 559
- Prior month: 601
- Ratings reiterated
- 101
- Prior month: 266
- All rating actions
- 1,218
- Prior month: 1,278
Upgrades and downgrades by sector, October 2026
| Sector | Upgrades | Downgrades | Ratio | All actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health Care | 29 | 54 | 0.54 | 259 |
| Finance | 42 | 56 | 0.75 | 197 |
| Consumer Discretionary | 57 | 42 | 1.36 | 180 |
| Industrials | 40 | 37 | 1.08 | 162 |
| Technology | 38 | 57 | 0.67 | 162 |
| Real Estate | 19 | 15 | 1.27 | 62 |
| Utilities | 7 | 6 | 1.17 | 60 |
| Energy | 7 | 10 | 0.70 | 59 |
| Basic Materials | 8 | 5 | 1.60 | 24 |
| Consumer Staples | 4 | 10 | 0.40 | 18 |
| Unclassified | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 11 |
| Telecommunications | 5 | 3 | 1.67 | 9 |
| Miscellaneous | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 8 |
| n/a | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | 5 |
| Transportation | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 2 |
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, October 2026 [Data set]. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://www.quantisnow.com/data/analyst-ratings/2026-10
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