- CBS Ticker
- 🇺🇸 NYSE Exchange
- 16,730 Employees
- 📡 Communication Services Sector
- 📰 Media Industry
- Joseph R. Ianniello CEO
Analyst Recommendations
This chart is a recommendation for investors. To provide forecasts, analysts and brokers use companies' public financial reports and speak with their employees and clients. The end result is a solution that's marked on the chart, which shows analysts' opinions at different periods of time. Move your cursor to track on what the dates the recommendations changed.
Investors shouldn't only follow analyst recommendations. Forecasts should be used to supplement existing strategies and plans. Trading based on a recommendation chart is is considered bad practice. Analyst reports should only be used in conjunction with your own analytics.
Also known as strong sell, it's a recommendation to sell a security or to liquidate an asset.
A recommendation that means a stock is expected to do slightly worse than the overall stock market return. Underperform can also be expressed as "moderate sell", "weak hold" and "underweight."
A company with a hold recommendation is expected to perform on par with comparable companies or in line with the market.
Also known as "moderate buy", "accumulate", and "overweight." Outperform is an analyst recommendation meaning a stock is expected to do slightly better than the market return.
Also known as strong buy and "on the recommended list." Needless to say, buy is a recommendation to purchase a specific security.
Also known as strong sell, it's a recommendation to sell a security or to liquidate an asset.
A recommendation that means a stock is expected to do slightly worse than the overall stock market return. Underperform can also be expressed as "moderate sell", "weak hold" and "underweight."
A company with a hold recommendation is expected to perform on par with comparable companies or in line with the market.
Also known as "moderate buy", "accumulate", and "overweight." Outperform is an analyst recommendation meaning a stock is expected to do slightly better than the market return.
Also known as strong buy and "on the recommended list." Needless to say, buy is a recommendation to purchase a specific security.
CBS Corp. operates as a mass media company, which creates and distributes content across a variety of platforms to audiences around the world. It operates its business through following segments: Entertainment, Cable Networks, Publishing, and Local Media. The Entertainment segment is composed of the CBS Television Network, CBS Television Studios, CBS Studios International, CBS Television Distribution, CBS Interactive, and CBS Films as well as the Company's digital streaming services, CBS All Access and CBSN. The Cable Networks includes Showtime Networks, CBS Sports Network, and Smithsonian Networks. The Publishing segment manages the Simon & Schuster's consumer book publishing business with imprints such as Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books, Scribner, and Atria Books. The Local Media segment handles the CBS Television Stations, and CBS Local Digital Media, with revenues generated primarily from advertising sales and retransmission fees. The company was founded by Sumner Murray Redstone in 1986 and is headquartered in New York, NY.