Price-target cuts across 1,527 names
Price-target cuts were measured across 1,527 names over the last three years; 46% of them have a positive median reaction at 30 minutes. An analyst lowers their price target. The reaction is rarely a clean one-directional drop.
Price-target cuts do not move one way.
Intraday moves were mixed and small; the more durable signal showed up by the close (TSLA median −0.48%).
Across all 1,527 measured names, 46% have a positive median 30-minute reaction and 52 have a median of exactly 0.00%. No single median is published for the class: with the names split that evenly, the middle of that distribution is zero, and it is zero on all six of these pages.
The strongest and weakest reactions to price-target cuts, among the 163 best-measured names.
Strongest median 30-min reaction
Weakest median 30-min reaction
Last 3 years, pulled 2026-09-21. Reaction = percent move vs. the price at the news timestamp. Counts and medians only. Both tables rank only the 163 names with at least 50 measured price-target cuts; the full population publishes every name with at least 10, where a handful of events can put a name at either extreme.
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Other event types: Analyst upgrades → · Analyst downgrades → · Coverage initiations → · Rating reiterations → · Price-target raises → · Every measured ticker →