hedg3 integrates Benzinga's analyst ratings

Analyst ratings are live on hedg3 today: every upgrade, downgrade, initiation and price-target change from the analysts who cover a name, delivered as it is published rather than swept up hours later. It runs on Benzinga's Analyst Ratings API.

The integration was announced by Benzinga. You can read it in full on PR Newswire.

hedg3 is focused on giving retail traders the same caliber of intelligence that sophisticated market participants already rely on. Analyst Ratings adds another trusted layer of market context to their platform, and we're glad to support hedg3 as they build out tools for everyday investors.

Emily Goldvekht, Account Manager at Benzinga

Why ratings, and why licensed

An analyst rating is one of the few pieces of market context that is both public and genuinely hard to assemble. It arrives in bursts through the morning, it is attributed to a named analyst at a named firm, and it moves prices. Aggregating it accurately is a data problem, not a scraping problem, which is why it is licensed here rather than collected.

Licensing also settles the question that matters most on a market surface: where a number came from. A rating on hedg3 carries the firm, the analyst, the action and the timestamp it was published with. Nothing is inferred, and nothing is back-dated.

Where it shows up

• Research: the coverage on a ticker, with each firm's action and target beside the date it was published.
• Analyst rankings: our own scoring of analysts by their record, built entirely from that ratings history.
• Watchlist alerts: an opt-in bell per watchlist, so a rating on a name you follow reaches you as an event rather than a page you have to check.
• The desks: hedg3's automated desks read ratings alongside flow, positioning and the calendar when they surface an idea. Every desk is clearly labelled as automated.

What it does not do

A rating is one analyst's published view, not a forecast and not a recommendation from us. hedg3 reports what was published, by whom, and when. It does not tell you to buy anything, and an upgrade is not a signal on its own; it is one more input beside the tape.

Ratings are available across hedg3. See pricing for what each plan includes.