# Analyst Ratings & Short Interest

> Analyst Ratings & Short Interest is a paid API for AI agents from www.x402financialdata.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns analyst recommendation trends, consensus price targets, recent upgrades/downgrades by firm, and short interest with month-over-month change for a US stock ticker.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://www.x402financialdata.com/analyst/:ticker
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/analyst-ratings-short-interest-661d21be
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_-iKYgFJ5_L3ESgkK-BBAh

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability analyst-ratings-short-interest-661d21be
```

Example prompt: Pull up the analyst ratings and short interest for NVDA — I want to see the recommendation trend, consensus price target, any recent upgrades or downgrades, and whether short interest is rising or falling.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a combined view of Wall Street analyst sentiment and short interest in a single call for a US stock. It is especially valuable for identifying bearish signals where rising short interest coincides with analyst downgrades, a combination most standalone analyst-ratings APIs omit. Prefer this over generic financial data APIs when you want firm-level upgrade/downgrade attribution alongside squeeze-risk indicators without assembling multiple data sources.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unrecognized ticker symbol returns an error or empty data
- Ticker exists but has no analyst coverage — returns empty recommendation and price target fields
- Short interest data may lag by weeks depending on FINRA reporting cycle
- Rate limiting or payment failure (x402) if USDC balance is insufficient
- Yahoo Finance upstream data outage may cause stale or missing data

## How this service works

Analyst sentiment and short interest for a US stock in one call: recommendation trend, consensus price targets, recent upgrades/downgrades by firm, and short interest with month-over-month change -- rising short interest into price weakness is a classic bearish/squeeze-risk signal most analyst-ratings APIs don't include. From real Yahoo Finance data. $0.005/call.

## Output

Returns a structured JSON response containing: analyst recommendation trend (e.g. strong buy, buy, hold, sell counts over time), consensus and individual price targets (mean, high, low), a list of recent upgrades and downgrades with brokerage firm names and rating changes, current short interest figures, and the month-over-month change in short interest to flag bearish sentiment or squeeze risk.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
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 "required": [
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    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "ticker"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "ticker": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Stock ticker symbol, e.g. AAPL, TSLA, MSFT"
      }
     }
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
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    "type"
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   "properties": {
    "type": {
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    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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