The only possible explanation is that IBD editors (or those who bankrolled them) are shorting the stock .
Seriously, there are two kinds of ratings - computer generated, based purely on algorithms, or human edited. IBD seems to be a hybrid, with discrepancy can only be explained by human greed.
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