This is the average value of all analysts' opinions for a company. It is calculated by totaling all the opinion ratings and dividing by the total number of analysts offering opinions.

Scale
FactSet uses a scale 1 (strong buy), 1.5 (buy), 2 (hold), 2.5 (underperform), and 3 (sell).
CapitalIQ uses a scale of 1 (strong buy), 2 (buy), 3 (hold), 4 (underperform), and 5 (sell).