Polarization of Ratings and Reports. How do I best utilize these features?

Advice Request

I'm a very inexperienced and hands-off trader. I was poking around tdameritrade and saw these reports for a stock that is currently doing well, AMD specifically. But these reports are so polarized that I giggled when I saw them. Admittedly, I don't do too much due diligence. But if I were to rely on a resource like this: https://i.imgur.com/NP75cmM.png, how can I best utilize that information? Any tips on how to decipher this information beyond what each ticker shows on the surface? Of course I can read into each one, but what exactly are they distilling to get that rating?

Posted Nov 20, 2020, 1:35 PM UTC

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lifescibro•

Ratings are total bullshit in my opinion, I would just ignore them. They are biased. One guy’s institution has a long position, the other is short. So they want to make the stock go up or down by assigning ratings. They claim it’s research, but I think there’s a lot of bias.

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