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Analysts’ Most Liked and Most Hated Groups

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Whether you like to follow the herd or go against the grain, the following lists should be useful to you.  The first one summarizes the most popular S&P 1500 groups based on the ratings of Wall St. analysts, while the second list highlights the groups that analysts are most negative on.  Groups are sorted based on the net percentage of buy recommendations (gross buys minus gross sells) for the stocks in each group. 

The right most column in each chart shows the stock in each particular group that analysts are the most bullish (highest rated) or bearish (lowest rated) on.  For example, in Construction Materials, which is the most popular group in the S&P 1500, analysts are most bullish on VMC.  In the list of lowest rated groups, real estate is the least favorite, and within that group analysts are the most bearish on IRC.

Which strategy will work best? Buying the groups and stocks which analysts are the most bullish on (following the herd) or buying the groups and stocks which analysts are the most bearish on (against the grain)?  Only time will tell, and a month from now we will calculate the results.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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