Companies' smashing broker forecasts are almost certain to enjoy strong share price rises. Keeping an eye on upgrades and downgrades in consensus forecasts can help provide ideas for your next investment.
Our upgrade and downgrade tables are based on changes made by brokers over the last month to their consensus forecast earnings for the year ahead. Comparisons are made between forecasts for the same 12 month period, which run from the date given on the table. The tables are ordered by largest to smallest one month revisions.
Find out more about companies beating broker forecasts in the links below
Find out how the miners have reaped the rewards of rising metal prices.
Why do broker upgrades matter?
Share prices reflect investor expectation for company performance. That expectation is partly based on company expectations or forecasts from brokers. Thus, if a company can beat those expectations, the share price is likely to enjoy a leap.
Some companies make a habit of beating expectations. Click on the links below to find out more about Britain's best.
Frasers has received a recent upgrade from analysts after it announced that CEO Mike Ashley would be handing the company over to his son-in-law. Find out about its prospects of future growth here.
With the job market heating up the recruitment firms are receiving upgrades from analysts. Read more about how wage inflation is impacting Robert Walters' valuation here.
20 Biggest Upgrades - 26 Jan
| UPGRADES | ||||
| 26 January 2022 | FWD EPS CHG | |||
| Name (price) | EPS NTM | current EPS NTM 1mth ago | 1mth % chg | current EPS NTM 3mth ago |
| Trident Royalties (40p) | 1.4p | 0.4p | +216% | 0.2p |
| Chaarat Gold (19p) | 0.5p | 0.3p | +103% | 0.1p |
| CAP-XX (5p) | 0.2p | 0.1p | +75% | 0.1p |
| Sancus Lending Group (2p) | 0.1p | 0.1p | +69% | -0.1p |
| 1Spatial (45p) | 2.5p | 1.6p | +60% | 1.4p |
| Savannah Energy (25p) | 3.6p | 2.3p | +60% | 2.0p |
| Jet2 (1,214p) | 65.2p | 40.9p | +59% | 22.8p |
| President Energy (2p) | 0.3p | 0.2p | +56% | 0.1p |
| Petra Diamonds (84p) | 10.1p | 6.8p | +48% | 7.3p |
| Bushveld Minerals (9p) | 0.6p | 0.4p | +45% | 0.6p |
| Ted Baker (90p) | 4.7p | 3.3p | +43% | 1.5p |
| Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings (168p) | 4.3p | 3.1p | +41% | 9.7p |
| Gfinity (3p) | 0.1p | 0.1p | +34% | 0.0p |
| Kenmare Resources (440p) | 123p | 92.9p | +32% | 83.5p |
| Pressure Technologies (68p) | 4.1p | 3.1p | +32% | - |
| Tissue Regenix Group (p) | 0.0p | 0.0p | +31% | 0.0p |
| Enteq Technologies (15p) | 0.9p | 0.7p | +26% | 0.4p |
| Whitbread (2,969p) | 76.8p | 61.0p | +26% | 39.0p |
| MTI Wireless Edge (63p) | 3.4p | 2.7p | +25% | 3.5p |
| Shoe Zone (141p) | 10.6p | 8.6p | +23% | 8.1p |
20 Biggest Downgrades - 26 Jan
| DOWNGRADES | ||||
| 26 January 2022 | FWD EPS CHG | |||
| Name (price) | EPS NTM | current EPS NTM 1mth ago | 1mth % chg | current EPS NTM 3mth ago |
| Revolution Bars Group (23p) | 0.1p | 0.3p | -71% | 0.0p |
| Hummingbird Resources (13p) | 0.7p | 2.5p | -70% | 2.3p |
| Accrol Group Holdings (20p) | 1.4p | 3.7p | -63% | 3.4p |
| Gattaca (89p) | 6.2p | 16.5p | -62% | 15.1p |
| accesso Technology Group (716p) | 5.0p | 11.8p | -58% | 12.3p |
| Funding Circle Holdings (95p) | 4.2p | 7.0p | -40% | 6.9p |
| Frontier Developments (1,320p) | 37.4p | 58.9p | -36% | 78.2p |
| Card Factory (60p) | 6.3p | 9.6p | -34% | 8.1p |
| De La Rue (111p) | 13.2p | 19.1p | -31% | 18.3p |
| Gulf Marine Services (6p) | 1.7p | 2.2p | -26% | 2.1p |
| Churchill China (1,600p) | 61.3p | 80.6p | -24% | 70.5p |
| boohoo group (103p) | 5.0p | 6.5p | -24% | 10.8p |
| Good Energy Group (228p) | 17.6p | 22.1p | -21% | 19.5p |
| Oxford BioMedica (872p) | 14.4p | 18.1p | -20% | 21.8p |
| Energean (916p) | 64.5p | 80.4p | -20% | 57.5p |
| Best of the Best (440p) | 42.9p | 53.3p | -20% | 58.6p |
| Centamin (94p) | 5.7p | 7.0p | -19% | 8.6p |
| easyJet (604p) | 15.7p | 19.1p | -18% | 20.8p |
| AfriTin Mining (6p) | 0.3p | 0.3p | -18% | 0.3p |
| Mission Group (56p) | 7.1p | 8.6p | -17% | 8.1p |
