The week in analyst ratings: September 14, 2026
19 upgrades, 11 downgrades and 39 new initiations across ~500 US large caps this week, and which firms' calls have the track records to back them.
Wall Street firms published 69 rating changes across StockRank's ~500-stock US coverage this past week: 19 upgrades, 11 downgrades and 39 initiations. Here are the calls from the firms with the strongest measured track records, as of September 14, 2026.
Notable calls, ranked by the caller's record
| Ticker | Firm | Action | Rating | Firm's 12M hit rate | |---|---|---|---|---| | INTC | Northland Capital Markets | Upgrade | Outperform | 60% (n=30) | | GLW | China Renaissance | Initiated | Buy | 50% (n=6) | | CPRT | Barrington Research | Upgrade | Outperform | 55% (n=47) | | COO | William Blair | Downgrade | Market Perform | 50% (n=28) | | FDS | William Blair | Upgrade | Outperform | 50% (n=28) | | COO | BofA Securities | Downgrade | Neutral | 43% (n=984) | | ODFL | Citigroup | Upgrade | Buy | 46% (n=1386) | | CHRW | Citigroup | Upgrade | Buy | 46% (n=1386) | | COIN | Morgan Stanley | Initiated | Equal-Weight | 46% (n=1438) | | SNPS | Morgan Stanley | Upgrade | Overweight | 46% (n=1438) | | MTB | Morgan Stanley | Upgrade | Overweight | 46% (n=1438) | | ESS | Mizuho | Downgrade | Neutral | 38% (n=778) |
Hit rate = share of the firm's historical buy-equivalent ratings that beat the S&P 500 over the following 12 months, computed by StockRank; n = evaluated ratings. Live version on the ratings feed and Top Firms leaderboard.
How to read it
Northland Capital Markets upgraded Intel to Outperform, marking one of 19 upgrades logged across StockRank's coverage this week. Among the firms driving changes, those with stronger recent track records dominated the activity. Citigroup, which holds a 46% hit rate on 1,386 calls over the past 12 months, upgraded two transportation names: Old Dominion Freight Line and Chr. Robinson Worldwide, both to Buy. Morgan Stanley, tracking at 46% accuracy across 1,438 prior ratings, lifted Synopsys and M&T Bank to Overweight while initiating coverage of Coinbase at Equal-Weight.
Downside moves came from several firms as well. William Blair, sitting at 50% accuracy, downgraded Cooper Companies to Market Perform even as it upgraded FactSet Research to Outperform. BofA Securities, with a lower 43% hit rate, also downgraded Cooper Companies, to Neutral. Mizuho initiated a Neutral rating on Essex Property Trust amid the week's broader activity, which included 39 new coverage initiations alongside 11 total downgrades.
The upgrades to Corning and Carpet Capital reflect action from firms with track records in the 50 to 55% range over the past year. Across the week's changes, the named firms' historical accuracy varied considerably, spanning from 38% to 60%, providing context for how institutional research shops with differing validation records positioned themselves on individual names.
The necessary caveats
Everything above is a descriptive snapshot of third-party analyst opinions (via Yahoo Finance, delayed), aggregated by StockRank. Ratings and price targets are the published views of the named firms, not StockRank's, and historical accuracy does not guarantee future results. Nothing in this article is investment advice or a recommendation. Methodology (windows, benchmark, minimum samples) is published in full here.
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