These Are The 10 Companies Most Hated By Wall Street

Two months ago, we revealed the list of stocks most hated by the buy-side: that increasingly clueless cabal of Hotel California groupies which, unable to do fundamental analysis (thanks to the Fed) is forced into the same trades and then, when a paradigm shift strikes (as happened ever so frequently over the past year) is crushed under their own and their peers’ weight leading to the worst hedge fund performance year since 2008. We said to go long these names in advance of hedge fund liquidations and collateral and margin calls. Incidentally, the trade generated substantial alpha in the past 6 weeks. The full list can be found here.
Today we were not at all surprised to find that the buyside’s revulsion toward some of the worst (if better performing) stocks has spread and hit the sellside. Acording to Bloomberg, “analysts” are already ratcheting down their expectations for U. S. stocks, while various economic models are also moving downwards.
As a reminder, we have been covering the gradual conversion of banks such as JPM, Citi, UBS and today, BofA, who have all said to no longer “buy the dip”, but to “sell the rip” instead, and while selling stocks, “buy gold.”
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This post was published at Zero Hedge on 01/07/2016.