From Fool.com….
Generally speaking, it pays to be bullish on Wall Street. Despite navigating its way through Black Monday in 1987, the dot-com bubble, the Great Recession, and more recently the coronavirus crash, the average annual total return for the benchmark S&P 500 since 1980, including dividends, is north of 11%.
Not surprisingly, we see this optimism readily apparent in Wall Street’s ratings on stocks.
According to FactSet, more than half of all stocks carry a consensus buy rating, 38% have the equivalent of a hold rating, and just 7% are rated as sells. Yet, history shows that far more than 7% of stocks will eventually head lower.
Based on Wall Street’s consensus price targets, the following five ultra-popular stocks are all expected to lose value over the coming 12 months.
