Piqqem Sentiment Market Movers 6/2/09: Consumer lags, clean teach gains - LOW, WMT, AGU down, AMSC, STP up

June 3, 2009 3:57 PM EDT

Here is the latest Piqqem Sentiment Market Movers List for the previous week. The Market Movers measurement combines number of active votes on a security at Piqqem.com and percentage change in sentiment ratings on an equity over the previous seven days. Piqqem users provide their sentiment rating on equities on a 0-to-4 scale with 0 as lowest and 4 as highest. This week saw a broad mix of sentiment movers. Home improvement chain Lowe's declined dramatically, likely based on the tandem of reduced consumer spending and higher interest rates. Consumer Bellwether Wal-Mart Stores also declined on weaker consumer spending numbers. Wind power equipment provider American Superconductor has received more sell-side coverage in the past two months and positive analyst ratings as it continues to rack up deals. Fertilizer and agricultural chemicals company Agrium has suffered from a delayed impact of negative earnings results and from concerns about ethanol and corn production.

• Sentiment for Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is down 18.3% in the last week.
  
• Sentiment for Suntech Power Holdings (NYSE: STP) is up 12.7% in the last week.
  
• Sentiment for Charles Schwab (Nasdaq: SCHW) is up 11.4% in the last week.
  
• Sentiment for American Superconductor (Nasdaq: AMSC) is up 10.7% in the last week.
  
• Sentiment for PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) is down 10.3% in the last week.
  
• Sentiment for Agrium (NYSE: AGU) is down 9.8% in the last week.
  
• Sentiment for Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) is down 8.2% in the last week.
  
• Sentiment for Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) is up 8.2% in the last week.
  
• Sentiment for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is down 5.1% in the last week.
  
• Sentiment for Tellabs (Nasdaq: TLAB) is up 11.1% in the last week.

*Piqqem is a stock prediction community and analysis tool that aggregates Crowd Wisdom to help users see shifts in market sentiments. Piqqem does not issue buy or sell recommendations on stocks or equities.

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