During these busy times, it pays to stay on top of the latest profit opportunities. And today’s blog post should be a great place to start. After taking a close look at the latest data on institutional buying pressure and each company’s fundamental health, I decided to revise my Portfolio Grader recommendations for 179 big blue chips. Chances are that you have at least one of these stocks in your portfolio, so you may want to give this list a skim and act accordingly.
This Week’s Ratings Changes:
| Upgraded: From Hold to Buy | Symbol | Company Name | Quantitative Grade |
Fundamental Grade |
Total Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AET | Aetna Inc. | B | C | B |
| ALL | Allstate Corp. | B | C | B |
| CFG | Citizens Financial Group Inc. | B | B | B |
| CHRW | C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. | B | C | B |
| DG | Dollar General Corp. | B | C | B |
| ENB | Enbridge Inc. | B | C | B |
| FAST | Fastenal Company | B | C | B |
| FCX | Freeport-McMoRan Inc. | B | D | B |
| FITB | Fifth Third Bancorp | B | B | B |
| FRC | First Republic Bank | B | B | B |
| GD | General Dynamics Corp. | B | B | B |
| HUM | Humana Inc. | B | C | B |
| IP | International Paper Company | B | C | B |
| JBHT | J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. | B | C | B |
| MPEL | Melco Crown Entertainment Limited | B | B | B |
| PNC | PNC Financial Services Group Inc. | B | C | B |
| RF | Regions Financial Corp. | B | B | B |
| RJF | Raymond James Financial Inc. | B | B | B |
| STI | SunTrust Banks Inc. | B | C | B |
| STX | Seagate Technology PLC | B | B | B |
| Upgraded: From Sell to Hold | Symbol | Company Name | Quantitative Grade |
Fundamental Grade |
Total Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABBV | AbbVie Inc. | D | B | C |
| AGU | Agrium Inc. | C | D | C |
| ANTM | Anthem Inc. | C | C | C |
| AXP | American Express Company | D | B | C |
| CELG | Celgene Corp. | C | B | C |
| COG | Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. | C | D | C |
| DAL | Delta Air Lines Inc. | D | C | C |
| EQT | EQT Corp. | B | D | C |
| GGP | General Growth Properties Inc. | D | B | C |
| GS | Goldman Sachs Group Inc. | C | B | C |
| HBAN | Huntington Bancshares Inc. | C | C | C |
| HIG | Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. | D | C | C |
| JWN | Nordstrom Inc. | C | C | C |
| LUV | Southwest Airlines Co. | D | C | C |
| M | Macy’s Inc | C | C | C |
| MET | MetLife Inc. | C | C | C |
| MFC | Manulife Financial Corp. | D | B | C |
| RYAAY | Ryanair Holdings Plc | C | C | C |
| SYF | Synchrony Financial | D | B | C |
| TGT | Target Corp. | C | B | C |
| Downgraded: From Buy to Hold | Symbol | Company Name | Quantitative Grade |
Fundamental Grade |
Total Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Agilent Technologies Inc. | C | B | C |
| ABB | ABB Ltd. | C | C | C |
| ABEV | Ambev SA | D | C | C |
| ACN | Accenture Plc | C | B | C |
| ADBE | Adobe Systems Inc. | C | B | C |
| AEP | American Electric Power Company Inc. | C | D | C |
| AGR | Avangrid Inc. | C | C | C |
| AMZN | Amazon.com Inc. | C | C | C |
| APA | Apache Corp. | B | C | C |
| APD | Air Products and Chemicals Inc. | C | C | C |
| ATVI | Activision Blizzard Inc. | D | B | C |
| AYI | Acuity Brands Inc. | C | C | C |
| BABA | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. | C | C | C |
| BCE | BCE Inc. | C | C | C |
| BLL | Ball Corp. | C | C | C |
| CA | CA Inc. | C | B | C |
| CB | Chubb Limited | C | B | C |
| CHD | Church & Dwight Co. Inc. | C | C | C |
| CNQ | Canadian Natural Resources Limited | B | D | C |
| CPB | Campbell Soup Company | B | D | C |
| CSCO | Cisco Systems Inc. | C | C | C |
| CSX | CSX Corp. | C | C | C |
| D | Dominion Resources Inc. | C | C | C |
| DD | E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company | C | B | C |
| DHR | Danaher Corp. | C | C | C |
| DOW | Dow Chemical Company | C | B | C |
| EFX | Equifax Inc. | C | B | C |
| ES | Eversource Energy | C | C | C |
| ETN | Eaton Corp. Plc | C | C | C |
| ETR | Entergy Corp. | C | B | C |
| EW | Edwards Lifesciences Corp. | C | C | C |
| FB | Facebook Inc. | C | B | C |
| FDX | FedEx Corp. | C | B | C |
| FE | FirstEnergy Corp. | C | D | C |
| GG | Goldcorp Inc. | B | D | C |
| GIS | General Mills Inc. | C | C | C |
| HCA | HCA Holdings Inc. | C | B | C |
| HCN | Welltower Inc. | C | B | C |
| HDB | HDFC Bank Limited | C | B | C |
| HOG | Harley-Davidson Inc. | C | C | C |
| HON | Honeywell International Inc. | C | C | C |
| HPQ | HP Inc. | C | C | C |
| HRL | Hormel Foods Corp. | C | B | C |
| INFO | IHS Markit Ltd. | B | C | C |
| MDT | Medtronic plc | C | C | C |
| MMM | 3M Company | C | C | C |
| MON | Monsanto Company | C | C | C |
| MSFT | Microsoft Corp. | C | B | C |
| MSI | Motorola Solutions Inc. | C | B | C |
| NDAQ | Nasdaq Inc. | C | C | C |
| NFLX | Netflix Inc. | D | B | C |
| NSC | Norfolk Southern Corp. | C | C | C |
| NTT | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. | C | B | C |
| NWL | Newell Brands Inc | D | C | C |
| NXPI | NXP Semiconductors NV | B | C | C |
| PEG | Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. | C | C | C |
| PEP | PepsiCo Inc. | C | B | C |
| PHG | Royal Philips NV | C | B | C |
| PM | Philip Morris International Inc. | C | C | C |
| PPL | PPL Corp. | D | B | C |
| PXD | Pioneer Natural Resources Company | B | D | C |
| PYPL | PayPal Holdings Inc | C | C | C |
| RY | Royal Bank of Canada | C | B | C |
| SAP | SAP SE | C | C | C |
| SJM | J. M. Smucker Company | C | C | C |
| SWK | Stanley Black & Decker Inc. | C | B | C |
| SYT | Syngenta AG | C | C | C |
| TAP | Molson Coors Brewing Company | C | B | C |
| TMO | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. | D | C | C |
| TS | Tenaris S.A. | B | D | C |
| TTM | Tata Motors Limited | C | C | C |
| UGP | Ultrapar Participacoes S.A. | C | C | C |
| VMC | Vulcan Materials Company | B | C | C |
| VRSK | Verisk Analytics Inc | C | B | C |
| WBK | Westpac Banking Corp | D | B | C |
| XLNX | Xilinx Inc. | C | B | C |
| ZTS | Zoetis Inc. | C | B | C |
| Downgraded: From Hold to Sell | Symbol | Company Name | Quantitative Grade |
Fundamental Grade |
Total Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAPL | Apple Inc. | D | C | D |
| AVB | AvalonBay Communities Inc. | F | B | D |
| BAM | Brookfield Asset Management Inc. | D | C | D |
| BSMX | Grupo Financiero Santander Mexico SAB de CV | F | C | D |
| BTI | British American Tobacco p.l.c. | F | C | D |
| CCE | Coca-Cola European Partners Plc | D | C | D |
| CCI | Crown Castle International Corp | D | D | D |
| CHA | China Telecom Corp. Ltd. Class H | D | C | D |
| CHKP | Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. | D | B | D |
| CHL | China Mobile Limited | F | C | D |
| CL | Colgate-Palmolive Company | D | C | D |
| COL | Rockwell Collins Inc. | F | B | D |
| CP | Canadian Pacific Railway Limited | D | C | D |
| CRM | salesforce.com Inc. | D | B | D |
| CTL | CenturyLink Inc. | D | C | D |
| DHI | D.R. Horton Inc. | F | B | D |
| DPS | Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. | D | B | D |
| DVN | Devon Energy Corp. | D | C | D |
| EPD | Enterprise Products Partners L.P. | D | C | D |
| EQR | Equity Residential | F | C | D |
| ESS | Essex Property Trust Inc. | D | B | D |
| ETP | Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. | C | D | D |
| FLT | FleetCor Technologies Inc. | D | B | D |
| FMX | Fomento Economico Mexicano SAB de CV | F | C | D |
| GOOG | Alphabet Inc. Class C | D | B | D |
| GOOGL | Alphabet Inc. | D | B | D |
| GPS | Gap Inc. | D | C | D |
| GSK | GlaxoSmithKline plc | D | B | D |
| HCP | HCP Inc. | D | D | D |
| HD | Home Depot Inc. | D | B | D |
| HOLX | Hologic Inc. | D | B | D |
| HSBC | HSBC Holdings plc | D | D | D |
| ILMN | Illumina Inc. | F | C | D |
| INCY | Incyte Corp. | D | B | D |
| KEP | Korea Electric Power Corp. | D | C | D |
| KIM | Kimco Realty Corp. | D | D | D |
| KMB | Kimberly-Clark Corp. | D | C | D |
| KO | Coca-Cola Company | D | C | D |
| KOF | Coca-Cola FEMSA SAB de CV | F | C | D |
| MCO | Moody’s Corp. | D | B | D |
| MPLX | MPLX LP | D | C | D |
| NGG | National Grid plc | F | B | D |
| ORLY | O’Reilly Automotive Inc. | D | C | D |
| PNR | Pentair plc | D | C | D |
| PSA | Public Storage | F | C | D |
| RCI | Rogers Communications Inc. | D | C | D |
| RELX | RELX PLC | D | C | D |
| RENX | RELX NV | F | C | D |
| SAN | Banco Santander S.A. | F | B | D |
| SBAC | SBA Communications Corp. | D | C | D |
| SKM | SK Telecom Co., Ltd. | D | C | D |
| SPG | Simon Property Group Inc. | D | C | D |
| TOT | Total SA | D | C | D |
| UL | Unilever PLC | F | C | D |
| UN | Unilever NV ADR | F | C | D |
| V | Visa Inc. | D | B | D |
| WDAY | Workday Inc. | D | D | D |
| WHR | Whirlpool Corp. | D | C | D |
| WLTW | Willis Towers Watson Public Limited | D | C | D |
| WMB | Williams Companies Inc. | D | C | D |
| WY | Weyerhaeuser Company | D | C | D |
To stay on top of my latest stock ratings, plug your holdings into Portfolio Grader, my proprietary stock screening tool. You may get started here.
Sincerely,
Louis Navellier