This article from the Wall Street Journal on Friday, January 20th, discusses several reasons why analyst Buy rating may not be truly legitimate. Firms often do not allow analysts who have rated their stock "Sell" access to their events. It is disgraceful that "Just 6% of the roughly 11,000 recommendations on stocks in the S&P 500 index are sell or equivalent ratings, according to research firm FactSet." With market valuations where they are, certainly a greater percentage of equities deserve to be rated 'sell' now.