Wall Street analysts make new stock picks on a daily basis. Unfortunately for investors, not all analysts have particularly impressive track records at predicting market movements. Even when it comes to one single stock, analyst ratings and price targets can vary widely, leaving investors confused about which analyst's opinion to trust.
Prudential Financial (NYSE:PRU) reported quarterly earnings of $2.13 per share which missed the analyst consensus estimate of $2.22 by 4.05 percent. This is a 43.65 percent decrease over earnings of $3.78 per share from
Prudential Financial's (NYSE:PRU) short percent of float has fallen 21.77% since its last report. The company recently reported that it has 8.55 million shares sold short, which is 2.3% of all regular shares that are available for trading.