Analyst Ratings Tracker

Analyst Ratings Tracker (SentiSense)

Track what Wall Street research desks say about a stock and how that compares with what the market feels. This skill reads analyst coverage, price targets, rating changes and per-analyst call history for about a thousand US names through the read-only SentiSense API, and pairs it with the SentiSense Score and Sentiment for the same ticker: who covers a stock and where each firm stands today, what changed this week on one name or across the market, one analyst's profile and record of calls, the Street versus crowd comparison, and which firms moved in the sessions after an earnings print.

Read-only educational data interface. Output is informational context, never a personalized buy or sell recommendation.

When to Use

Reach for this skill when the question is about analysts:

• "Who covers $NVDA and what do they say?" or "what is the price target on this stock?"
• "Any upgrades or downgrades today?" (market-wide rating changes, reiterations filtered out)
• "What has this analyst said before?" (profile and call history by name or slug)
• "Do analysts and the market agree on this name?" (Street versus crowd)
• "Which firms moved after the earnings print?" (post-earnings analyst reaction)
• As one leg of a convergence check with insider-trading-tracker, institutional-13f-tracker and stock-sentiment on the same ticker.

Do not use it for order entry, portfolio management, or personalized advice. It has no write, trading, or wallet surface; every endpoint is a GET.

What this data actually is (read before interpreting)

• Coverage is by firm; ratings are the firm's, not the named analyst's. A coverage row is one research desk with its latest price-target note and its latest rating action. The analysts[] on the row are the people the publisher named on that desk's notes. More than half of notes arrive with no byline; the response says so in attributionNote and the counts are attributedNoteCount and unattributedNoteCount.
• Ratings and price targets are two feeds, and they do not move together. A firm can rate a stock for months without publishing a target, or the reverse. firmCount is every firm in the window; ratingOnlyFirmCount is how many of them are there on a rating action alone. A row with firmRating set and noteCount zero is an ordinary row.
• ratingBuckets is the whole book, counted server-side. { buy, hold, sell, unrated, total } groups every covering firm by the tier of its current rating (Buy, Overweight, Outperform and their kin are Buy; Hold, Neutral, Equal-Weight, Market Perform are Hold), counted before the free-tier preview truncates the firm list, so a free key reads the same counts as a paid key. unrated is target-only desks. The four sum to total.
• Consensus counts are a different population. /consensus carries the vendor's survey (strongBuy through strongSell, PRO only, and they arrive as 0 on a free key, not null). Never mix them with ratingBuckets in one bar; pick one source per number.
• Consensus counts are a survey panel, not a tally of the actions feed. The strongBuy to strongSell counts are broker recommendations currently in effect, revised in batches through the month as brokers submit, most of which never become a published note. They can move on any sweep with no matching row on /actions or /activity. Never explain a count move by hunting for an action, and never say "no analyst moved" because the counts are flat. The actions feed is the event record (each row has the note's actionDate); the counts are a snapshot of the panel when the sweep ran. A ticker whose panel fetch returned nothing keeps the stored counts, which may be initial zeros when no panel has ever been observed. History consumers must use countsObserved to distinguish an observed panel, including an all-zero panel, from carried counts; countsObserved: false is not evidence of dropped coverage.
• Grades come back in one spelling per rating. Equal-Weight, In-Line, Market Perform, never their variants. A firm's own scale word is kept (Outperform stays Outperform), so group by tier, not by string equality, when you want "how many say Buy".
• An initiation never carries a prior grade. actionType: INITIATE always has fromGrade: null. Render it as "initiated at Buy", never as a change. Directional actions are reconciled against their grades at ingest, so actionType and the grade pair agree.
• Most of the market-wide feed is reiterations. About four rows in five on /activity are REITERATE; ask for actionTypes=UPGRADE,DOWNGRADE,INITIATE unless you want them.
• The SentiSense Score is a nowcast. It reads today's news and social tone, weighted by how actively the stock is discussed, centered on zero with strong readings beyond +/-23. It describes today and says nothing about tomorrow. sentiment is polarity from -1 to +1.
• Freshness: analyst data refreshes in one sweep over the whole universe about once a day, and the hour it lands drifts (measured completions from 8:49am to 5:33pm ET). Read updatedAt on consensus rather than assuming a schedule. A rating change can be up to a day old before it appears.

Prerequisites

• A free SENTISENSE_API_KEY. Get one at https://app.sentisense.ai/get-api-key. Send it on every REST call as the X-SentiSense-API-Key header (curl -H "X-SentiSense-API-Key: $SENTISENSE_API_KEY" ...). A call without it: a request without a valid key gets at most a shaped crawler-facing preview slice, never the dataset, and that fallback is not a contract you can build on.
• Any HTTP client. Plain curl works, or Python 3.8+ using only the standard library.
• Network access to https://app.sentisense.ai.
• Read-only scope. Every endpoint here is a GET. Nothing this skill does can place a trade, move money, or modify account state.

The free tier exercises every workflow below; preview-gated endpoints return a truncated but real slice on a free key, and the response-level counts are never truncated.

Permissions

• Network: HTTPS to app.sentisense.ai only.
• Credentials: SENTISENSE_API_KEY from the environment.
• Shell: none required.
• Files: none.

How to Run

Identify your client. Send a User-Agent naming your agent runtime and this skill, for example OpenClaw/1.4 (analyst-ratings-tracker) or ClaudeCode/2.1 (analyst-ratings-tracker). Substitute your own runtime and version if neither matches. You can also volunteer what your agent is called by adding an agent/<your-agent-name> token inside the same parentheses, as in OpenClaw/1.4 (analyst-ratings-tracker; agent/research-desk). All of it is optional, and it is what tells us this skill has real integrations behind it, so it gets prioritized and you get notice before it changes.

The REST recipe in this file is the primary path. A maintained command-line client is available as the separate sentisense-cli skill for hosts that prefer one.

Coverage, people and the market-wide feed are plain REST. Every /api/v1/analyst/... endpoint returns the wrapped envelope { isPreview, previewReason, data }; read .data, and when isPreview is true say so ("showing the free preview slice"). The two crowd-metric series under /api/v2/metrics/... are the exception: a bare JSON array of points with no envelope, so read them directly. A rate-limited call returns 429 with a Retry-After header; back off for the indicated seconds.

Endpoints

• GET /api/v1/analyst/{ticker}/coverage : who covers the stock, by firm, most recently active first. Query lookbackDays (default 365, up to 1825). Response level, all under data alongside ticker, windowDays and asOf: firmCount, ratingOnlyFirmCount, namedAnalystCount, noteCount, attributedNoteCount, unattributedNoteCount, attributionNote, ratingBuckets. The firm rows are nested at data.coverage, not at data directly, so unwrapping the envelope is only half the read. Each row: firm, analysts[] (slug, name, noteCount, latestPriceTarget), noteCount, latestNote (publishedDate, priceTarget, priceWhenPosted, newsPublisher, newsUrl), firmRating (rating, priorRating, actionType, date). Free: 5 firms plus totalCount; PRO: all.
• GET /api/v1/analyst/{ticker}/consensus : the price-target band. targetLow, targetMean, targetHigh, numberOfAnalysts, currentPrice, upsidePercent, consensusLabel, updatedAt (UTC instant), updatedAtEpoch. PRO adds targetMedian, recommendationMean and the five survey counts.
• GET /api/v1/analyst/{ticker}/consensus/history : daily observations ordered by snapshotDate ascending. Query from and to as YYYY-MM-DD dates plus limit (default 90, capped at 366); omitted dates select the 90 days ending today. Response data: { ticker, from, to, count, history }, with totalCount on the envelope. Free: the last 30 days ending at to, with targetMedian, recommendationMean and the five survey counts null; PRO: the requested window and all fields. countsObserved: false marks carried counts from a sweep where the panel did not return.
• GET /api/v1/analyst/{ticker}/called-it : recorded large moves with same-direction price-target revisions published beforehand. Query limit (default 10, capped at 50; below 1 returns 400 invalid_limit). Response data: { ticker, count, moves }, newest first by moveEndDate, with the pre-limit totalCount on the envelope. Free: newest move, up to 5 calls, move-level counts intact; PRO: requested moves and all calls. Each move carries its dates, movePct, moveWindowSessions, lookbackDays, coveringFirms, revisedWithMove, revisedAgainstMove, leftUnchanged, insightId, generatedAt (epoch seconds), and calls. Each call: firm, nullable analystName, attribution (firm or analyst), priceTarget, priorPriceTarget, publishedOn, daysBeforeMove. Known stocks with no qualifying move return 200 with empty moves; unknown symbols return 404 entity_not_found with suggestions, and ETFs return 404 ticker_is_etf with an analyst aggregate pointer.
• GET /api/v1/analyst/{ticker}/actions : rating actions for one stock, newest first. Query lookbackDays (default 90). Each row: actionDate, firm, actionType (UPGRADE, DOWNGRADE, INITIATE, REITERATE, OTHER), fromGrade, toGrade. Free: 3 rows; PRO: full window.
• GET /api/v1/analyst/activity : market-wide rating actions. Query lookbackDays (default 30), limit (default 50, up to 500), offset, actionTypes (comma-separated). Same row shape plus ticker. Free: first 50 rows in full.
• GET /api/v1/analyst/people/{slug} : one analyst's profile: the firms they have published under with first and last note dates, and their coverage book across tickers. Free: 5 most recent tickers; PRO: full book. 404 for a slug we do not hold.
• GET /api/v1/analyst/people/{slug}/calls : their price-target notes, newest first. Query limit (default 25, up to 200), offset; totalCount in the response. Free: first 25 rows in full.
• GET /api/v1/analyst/{ticker}/estimates : forward EPS estimates and past surprises. Free: 1 estimate and 2 surprises.
• GET /api/v2/metrics/entity/{ticker}/metric/sentisense and .../metric/sentiment : the crowd side. {entityId} accepts a ticker directly. Time-ascending points with a flat value; the last point is today's reading. Counts toward the monthly quota like every other call.
• GET /api/v1/calendar/earnings?ticker={ticker}&from={date} : the print date and session (before_open, after_close) for the reaction window.
• GET /api/v1/insights/stock/{ticker} : the stock's insights, including analyst_reaction once a print has one.

Workflows

1. Who covers this stock, and where do they stand today

Call GET /api/v1/analyst/NVDA/coverage (the whole-book counts are on data itself, the per-firm rows are the array at data.coverage), then GET /api/v1/analyst/NVDA/consensus. Lead with ratingBuckets as the rating line ("31 firms rate it: 97% Buy, 3% Hold, 0% Sell"), then the consensus target against currentPrice, then the three most recently active firms by name with their latest target. Say how many firms are rating-only and how many notes carried no byline. On a free key the firm list is five rows and totalCount tells you the book size; the counts at the top are whole either way.

2. Consensus drift

Call GET /api/v1/analyst/NVDA/consensus/history to pull the default 90-day window. If data.history is empty, report no observations in the returned data.from to data.to window and stop before reading first or last rows. For an empty response where isPreview is true and totalCount is positive, say the free preview is empty but observations exist in the full requested window. For non-empty history, read the first and last rows of data.history and report the first and last targetMean, then report the change in each count bucket from strongBuy through strongSell. List every snapshotDate whose countsObserved is false as carried; do not interpret a carried row as a coverage change.

Consensus drift, {data.from} to {data.to}
Mean target: ${first.targetMean} -> ${last.targetMean}
Counts: strong buy {first.strongBuy} -> {last.strongBuy}; buy {first.buy} -> {last.buy}; hold {first.hold} -> {last.hold}; sell {first.sell} -> {last.sell}; strong sell {first.strongSell} -> {last.strongSell}
Carried observations: {dates where countsObserved is false, or "none"}

On a free key the five counts are null and the returned window is 30 days. Report the available target drift, label the response as the free preview, and do not turn null counts into zeros.

3. What changed

For one name: GET /api/v1/analyst/NVDA/actions?lookbackDays=30. Market-wide: GET /api/v1/analyst/activity?lookbackDays=7&actionTypes=UPGRADE,DOWNGRADE,INITIATE&limit=100. Report the firm, the direction and the grades; an INITIATE reads "initiated at Neutral", a change reads "Equal-Weight to Overweight". When one firm initiates a dozen names in one morning, that is one event, not twelve stories.

4. One analyst's record

Take a slug from analysts[].slug on the coverage row. Call GET /api/v1/analyst/people/{slug} and GET /api/v1/analyst/people/{slug}/calls?limit=25. Report the firms and dates, the coverage book, and the calls as published facts: the date, the target, the price when posted, the publisher. This is call history, not an accuracy score. Do not compute a hit rate or rank analysts; the API does not, on purpose.

5. Street versus crowd

Combine workflow 1 with the two metric calls (.../metric/sentisense and .../metric/sentiment for the same ticker; read the last point of each). Then one sentence, present tense, from a closed set: "Street and crowd lean the same way", "The Street is more positive than the crowd", "The crowd is more positive than the Street", or, with fewer than five rated firms, "Not enough coverage to compare". Compare the majority bucket with the Score's band (positive is bullish, negative bearish, strong beyond +/-23). State the Score as a label and a direction, and say it is a nowcast. On a day when the price runs through several published targets while tone stays flat, say exactly that; it is the most useful shape the comparison produces.

6. Who moved after the print

For "what did company actually report?", hand off to the stock-earnings-analysis skill when available. Pass the ticker, report date, and reaction window. Return quarter results, guidance, and filing changes, kept separate from the Street reaction. Hand off only when the user changes the question; do not automatically route back. If the sibling is unavailable, answer the supported part here using a connected tool or the inline REST workflow, state any remaining gap, and never require an install.

GET /api/v1/calendar/earnings?ticker=NVDA&from=2026-08-01 for the report date and session, then GET /api/v1/analyst/NVDA/actions?lookbackDays=14 and the coverage call for target notes. Keep the rows dated on or after the first session that traded on the print (an after-close print rolls to the next day), then count two things: rating changes from the /actions rows (which carry direction), and firms whose latestNote.publishedDate on the coverage call falls inside the window (which only says "published a target at $X"; the coverage row carries the latest target, not the prior one, so do not claim "raised" or "lowered" from it). Always print the denominator from firmCount: "6 of 31 covering firms moved; 25 have not published since." Firms, not people. Where SentiSense has already written this up, GET /api/v1/insights/stock/NVDA carries an analyst_reaction insight whose insightText already states the moves and the denominator ("4 of 37 covering firms moved in the five sessions that followed ... 33 firms have not published since"); quote that sentence rather than re-deriving. The counts live in the text only: the insight object has insightId, insightType, insightText, confidence, urgency, generatedAt and no metadata field.

7. The convergence check. Analyst upgrades plus insider buying plus institutional accumulation on the same ticker, read against the crowd. Four calls, all plain REST: rating changes from GET /api/v1/analyst/NVDA/actions?lookbackDays=90 (keep UPGRADE, DOWNGRADE, INITIATE); insider trades from GET /api/v1/insider/trades/NVDA?lookbackDays=90 (envelope, rows under data; count purchases, code P, by distinct insider, and treat 3 or more as a cluster); institutional holders from GET /api/v1/institutional/holders/NVDA?limit=25 (omit reportDate and it resolves this ticker's latest quarter with holders, reporting it back in data.reportDate; pass &reportDate=YYYY-MM-DD only when you need a specific quarter. The list is nested at data.holders, each holder has changeType of NEW, INCREASED, DECREASED, SOLD_OUT or UNCHANGED; count NEW plus INCREASED against DECREASED plus SOLD_OUT among the top holders); and the crowd from the two metric series in workflow 5. Cite each leg separately with its window (analyst 90 days, insider 90 days, 13F the latest quarter, crowd today), say which legs agree, and never sum them into one score; one leg alone is context, not a case. The insider-trading-tracker, institutional-13f-tracker and stock-sentiment skills each treat their leg in full when they are installed.

8. Who called it

Call GET /api/v1/analyst/NVDA/called-it?limit=10. For each move, report moveStartDate to moveEndDate, movePct, and moveWindowSessions, then the counts: revisedWithMove of coveringFirms firms revised in that direction, revisedAgainstMove revised against it, and leftUnchanged left their targets unchanged. Under the move, list each call's firm, named analyst when present, priorPriceTarget to priceTarget, publishedOn, and daysBeforeMove. When analystName is null, attribute the published revision to the firm without inventing a name.

Label isPreview: true as the free preview: newest move only, up to 5 calls. The move-level counts remain complete even when fewer calls are displayed; do not replace them with the displayed list length. If moves is empty, say no qualifying move is stored for this stock and stop. Describe the published revisions and the subsequent recorded move as dated facts only.

Answering well

• A wrong symbol looks like an uncovered stock. /coverage, /actions and /estimates answer 200 with a well-formed all-zero payload for a symbol SentiSense does not hold (TESLA, ZZZZ), while /consensus for the same symbol answers 404. Never conclude "no analyst covers this" from an empty book alone. When the user typed a company name, resolve it first with GET /api/v1/kb/entities/search?q={name}&type=company&limit=5 (a bare array of {name, urlSlug, type, ticker}, best match first; take the first match with a non-null ticker). When a typed symbol returns an empty book, check /consensus: a 404 there means the symbol was wrong, not that coverage is empty.
• Ratings belong to firms. Write "Morgan Stanley upgraded to Overweight" and, only when the vendor named the person, "Morgan Stanley's Michael Cyprys". Never invent a name for an unattributed note and never write "unknown analyst".
• One population per number: ratingBuckets for "how many say Buy", numberOfAnalysts and targetMean for the target band. Do not average the two.
• Quote the target's date and priceWhenPosted next to the target; a July target on a stock that has run 30% since is a fact about July.
• Print the denominator on every count: "8 of 20 published targets are below the price" beats "most targets are below the price".
• The Score describes today. No verb about the future, no "buy signal", no "upside ahead".
• Report only what the API returns. Do not infer motives, and do not frame any of it as advice. This is public research activity presented for education.

Going further

Free covers every workflow above at a preview depth, and the whole-book counts are never truncated. PRO ($15/mo) lifts the monthly cap (no monthly limit, just a 300/min rate) and returns full coverage books, full action history, full call histories and the consensus survey counts, plus institutional flows, insider detail and AI insights across the SentiSense API. Apply coupon AGENTS at checkout for a builder launch discount: https://app.sentisense.ai/pricing?coupon=AGENTS

For the full REST reference on every endpoint this skill touches, install the sentisense skill; for the complete CLI command set, install sentisense-cli.

Install: npx skills add SentiSenseApp/skills (add -s analyst-ratings-tracker for just this skill).

SentiSense is a read-only financial intelligence API. This data is for informational and educational purposes only, not investment advice.