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Have you ever noticed how a stock touter will really build up a stock while another one will say the same stock is a sell? I just did a comparison using Zacks, Vectorvest, and The Street's Quant ratings. The Street does say their Quant ratings are strictly mathematical and may conflict with their picks and recommendation from Cramer and others. In other words the Quants have no human emotion attached. Zacks, on the other hand, are highly dependent on brokers and analysts for information as to upgrades, earnings estimates etc. Vectorvest uses parameters that are a combination of technicals and fundamentals with no forward guessing unless some of their proprietary information does. They won't tell.
I took 10 stocks highly rated by each of the 3 and crosschecked the ratings with the others to see if there was any consensus. Of the 30 stocks there was not exactly complete agreement on any of them. 6 stocks are rated a buy by all three although a buy from Zacks can be a 1 or a 2 rating and a Quant buy rating can be from an A+ to a B-. Vectorvest just has a "buy", "hold" , or "sell' rating. The 6 that they somewhat agree on as "buys" are GA, GMT, MPC, MU, SILC, SLXP.
A few they disagree on are OZM--Buy Zacks, Hold VV, C+ Quant, REGN--Buy VV, Sell Zacks, C+ Quant, AUXL--Buy VV, Hold Zacks, C Quant.
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I took 10 stocks highly rated by each of the 3 and crosschecked the ratings with the others to see if there was any consensus. Of the 30 stocks there was not exactly complete agreement on any of them. 6 stocks are rated a buy by all three although a buy from Zacks can be a 1 or a 2 rating and a Quant buy rating can be from an A+ to a B-. Vectorvest just has a "buy", "hold" , or "sell' rating. The 6 that they somewhat agree on as "buys" are GA, GMT, MPC, MU, SILC, SLXP.
A few they disagree on are OZM--Buy Zacks, Hold VV, C+ Quant, REGN--Buy VV, Sell Zacks, C+ Quant, AUXL--Buy VV, Hold Zacks, C Quant.
------------------------billy
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