Equity Investing

Buy Rating

Definition

What is Buy Rating?

A research opinion that a security is expected to deliver an attractive return relative to the analyst's standard.

Example in practice

The analyst assigns a buy rating because the estimated upside exceeds the required threshold.

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A share that usually carries voting rights and a residual claim on a company's profits and assets.

The standard ownership share in a company, generally equivalent to common stock.

A class of share that usually has priority over ordinary shares for dividends and liquidation proceeds.

The first public sale of a private company's shares, after which the shares may trade on an exchange.

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