MarketBeat Analyst Ratings & Price Target Scraper

Scrape MarketBeat.com analyst-ratings & price-target pages for any stock ticker. Returns the Wall Street consensus rating, consensus price target, forecasted upside/downside, the buy/hold/sell breakdown, and the full visible history of individual analyst rating actions (brokerage, action, rating change, price target, upside/downside). No login, no API key, no proxy required.

What this actor does

• Consensus summary — consensus rating (e.g. "Moderate Buy"), consensus price target, forecasted upside %, analyst count, buy/hold/sell breakdown
• Rating history — one record per individual analyst rating action: date, brokerage, analyst, action, old→new rating, price target, upside/downside %, details link
• Multi-ticker, multi-exchange — batch any number of tickers on one exchange per run
• Typed not-found records — tickers MarketBeat has no page for are returned as error records, never silently dropped
• Empty fields are omitted

Output

Consensus summary record (recordType: "consensusSummary"):

• ticker, exchange, consensusRating, consensusPriceTarget, forecastedUpsidePercent
• analystCount, buyCount, holdCount, sellCount
• strongBuyRatingsCurrent, buyRatingsCurrent, holdRatingsCurrent, sellRatingsCurrent, strongSellRatingsCurrent
• forecastUrl, scrapedAt

Rating history record (recordType: "ratingHistory", one per analyst action):

• ticker, exchange, date, brokerage, brokeragePerformanceStars, analyst
• action, oldRating, newRating, priceTarget, upsideDownsidePercent
• detailsUrl, forecastUrl, scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
tickers	array	– (required)	Ticker symbols to fetch; suggested value ["AAPL"]
exchange	select	– (required)	Exchange the tickers trade on; suggested value NASDAQ
includeRatingHistory	boolean	true	Also emit individual rating-action records
maxRatingsPerTicker	integer	50	Cap on rating-history records per ticker (1–200)

Example: mega-cap tech consensus + history

{
  "tickers": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "NVDA"],
  "exchange": "NASDAQ",
  "includeRatingHistory": true,
  "maxRatingsPerTicker": 50
}

Example: consensus only, no history

{
  "tickers": ["T"],
  "exchange": "NYSE",
  "includeRatingHistory": false
}

Use cases

• Investment research — pull Wall Street consensus rating and price target before making a trade decision
• Sentiment tracking — monitor how a stock's buy/hold/sell breakdown shifts over time
• Brokerage comparison — see which brokerages are bullish vs. bearish on a given ticker
• Portfolio screening — batch-fetch consensus ratings across a watchlist of tickers
• Financial content & newsletters — source fresh analyst-rating data for market commentary

Data source

Data is parsed directly from MarketBeat's public, freely accessible stock forecast pages (marketbeat.com/stocks/{exchange}/{ticker}/forecast/). No account or subscription is required to view this data.

FAQs

Do I need a MarketBeat account? No — the consensus rating, price target, and visible rating-action history are all publicly accessible without login.

What happens for an invalid ticker/exchange combination? MarketBeat redirects to a generic listing page for unknown tickers; this actor detects that redirect and emits a tickerNotFound error record instead of failing silently.

Why do some rating-history rows have no price target? MarketBeat itself doesn't always publish a price target for every individual analyst action (e.g. a coverage initiation without a stated target) — those fields are simply omitted rather than filled with a placeholder.