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Recommendation: Sell the August 85 put ( TOLTQ ).
Yared's first recommendation: Sell the high-end Sparc chip business, perhaps to Japan's Fujitsu.
Stocks like ExxonMobil (no recommendation) sell below highs made when oil was under $100 a barrel near year end.
In a Dartmouth study, buys beat the overall market by 2.4 points in the month following the recommendation; sells underperformed by 9.2 points, meaning you could have done better shorting those stocks.
As noted by Kent Womack, at professor of finance at Dartmouth's Tuck School of business, by the late '90s "buy" recommendations outnumbered "sell" recommendations by at least 50-1.
The guidelines would disallow the scandalous practice of analysts acting against their own recommendations -- selling stock, for example, that they are urging investors to buy.
Professor Nathan's research also shows that analysts writing about companies whose securities have been underwritten by their firms put out 25percentt more "buy" recommendations, 46percentt fewer "sell" recommendations and 23percentt fewer "hold" recommendations than other analysts.
In February 2000, analysts made 85 "buy" recommendations for every "sell" recommendation, according to Zacks Investment Research in Chicago.
And this in an industry where fewer than one per cent of analysts' recommendations are "sell".
The most optimistic are also the most successful, and recommendations to sell become rare.
Indeed, at the height of the boom, fewer than 1percentt of analysts' recommendations were "sells".
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