Vetr Top Raters Upgrade McDonald's, Herbalife

The Vetr crowd has turned incrementally bullish on 2 highly debated stocks among investors.

McDonald's Upgraded To 3.5-Stars

The Vetr crowd upgraded McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD)'s stock rating to 3.5-stars out of a possible 5-stars.

Shares of McDonald's have risen to $115.78 since the prior rating of 3.0-stars was issued 21 days ago.

McDonald's stock has returned nearly 30 percent return over the past year while the Dow Jones index declined around 10 percent over the same time period. As such, the Vetr crowd's approach to the stock could be labeled as cautiously optimistic as 57 percent of the crowd's ratings are bearish and the crowd sourced price target of $121.39 implies a potential upside of just 3.7 percent.

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Herbalife Upgraded To 4.5-Stars

Shares of Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) have lost nearly 15 percent since the start of 2016 but are still higher by more than 50 percent over the past year.

The Vetr crowd appears to be brushing aside Herbalife's stock performance over the past few weeks and focusing on its oupterformance over the past year as the stock's rating was upgraded to 4.5-stars out of a possible 5-stars.

Shares of Herbalife have risen to $46.14 since the prior rating of 4.0-stars was issued just 7 days ago.

In addition to an upgrade to clear bull territory, 66 percent of the crowd's ratings are bullish and the crowd sourced price target of $51.85 implies a potential upside of more than 12 percent.