5 Nightmarish Stocks You'd Rather Avoid This Halloween

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It's Halloween day, which provides the perfect backdrop to explore the stocks that are currently spooking investors, especially in light of the gloomy forecasts.

In the market, there seems to be a collective agreement on which stocks should be avoided for various reasons. Typically, when a company garners ratings from major agencies and entities, a crucial metric is the number of «sell» ratings it accumulates.

The higher this count, the graver the situation, particularly if it surpasses the number of «buy» ratings.

In this analysis, we'll scrutinize five stocks that have spooked investors due to the nearly unanimous agreement that these are not opportune investments, a theme fitting for Halloween day.

The primary culprits are their shaky fundamentals and the less-than-stellar financial reports expected both for the quarter and the year ahead.

To facilitate this evaluation, we will utilize the InvestingPro tool, accessing a trove of pertinent data and information.

Franklin Resources (NYSE:BEN) is an asset management company that provides its services to individuals and institutions and has equity and fixed-income funds. It was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Today, it presents its results, and earnings per share are expected to fall -15.44% and for the year -35.4%.

Source: InvestingPro

It presents 11 ratings, of which 1 is buy, 4 are hold and 6 are sell.

Its shares have fallen by -22.97% in the last 3 months.

Expeditors (NASDAQ:EXPD) offers logistics services in America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and India, specifically airfreight and ocean freight services. It was created in 1979 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

On November 7, it will present its results and is expected to report a drop in