Sentence examples for hold ratings from inspiring English sources

S&P Equity Research reiterated a "strong buy" rating on Valero Energy, a "buy" rating on Chevron and "hold" ratings on Amerada Hess and Royal Dutch Shell.

According to First Call/ Thompson Financial, which tracks analysts recommendations on stocks, 10 of the 11 analysts who follow Xerox have "hold" ratings on it -- generally, the worst rating a sell-side analyst will give.

Six of the company's underwriters, which had to wait until Wednesday to initiate coverage, stamped Groupon's stock with neutral or hold ratings.

Mr. Larkin has "hold" ratings on two other railroad stocks that have been investor favorites: CSX and Burlington Northern Santa Fe, which is based in Fort Worth.

Which home builders do you like best? A. I have buy ratings on nine stocks and hold ratings on four others.

Ask any big institutional investor about what makes good research analysts and the answer is rarely the buy, sell or hold ratings.

Because this dataset holds ratings given by users to movies within a discrete scale of 1 (worse) to 5 (better), we eliminated all ratings below 4, retaining only ratings of 4 or 5.

The film was received poorly by critics, holding ratings of 32 and 47 on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic respectively.

Their case is a pointed lesson in how difficult it will be for investors trying to hold the ratings agencies accountable.

Ever since the financial crisis of 2007 08, politicians and commentators have been calling on the authorities to hold the ratings agencies accountable for their shameful behavior during the boom.

Whenever the crowdsourced data hold multiple ratings per user and item, first, it is necessary to decide which user classification to use in order to apply collaborative filtering.