{"id":774883,"date":"2026-07-02T19:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/774883\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T19:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:14:18","slug":"7-asx-shares-downgraded-by-brokers-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/774883\/","title":{"rendered":"7 ASX shares downgraded by brokers this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&amp;P\/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) shares are down 0.05% to 8,717.2 points on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the new financial year begins, brokers are running their rulers over several ASX shares and adjusting their ratings and 12-month price targets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at some downgrades from the experts this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/numbers-1200x675.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"A frustrated businesswoman tries to figure out the numbers, indicating poor earnings results or share price movementon the ASX\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The JB Hi-Fi share price is $76,45, down 2.2% today and down 32% over 12 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UBS downgraded the ASX <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/investing-education\/consumer-discretionary-shares\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">consumer discretionary<\/a> share to a hold rating on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The broker shaved its 12-month price target from $85 to $83.<\/p>\n<p>This suggest a potential 8% upside ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Evolution Mining Ltd (<a class=\"tickerized-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/tickers\/asx-evn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ASX: EVN<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The Evolution Mining share price is $11.80, up 2.1% today and up 51% over 12 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UBS downgraded the ASX 200 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/investing-education\/mineral-explorer-shares\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gold<\/a> share to a hold rating on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The broker cut its 12-month price target from $14 to $12.60.<\/p>\n<p>This implies a potential 7% upside ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Whitehaven Coal Ltd (<a class=\"tickerized-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/tickers\/asx-whc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ASX: WHC<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The Whitehaven Coal share price is $7.50, up 0.2% on Thursday and up 34% over 12 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UBS downgraded the ASX <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/investing-education\/asx-coal-shares\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">coal<\/a> share to a hold rating on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The broker lowered its 12-month price target from $9.10 to $8.70.<\/p>\n<p>This indicates possible capital gains of 16% over the next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Judo Capital Holdings Ltd (<a class=\"tickerized-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/tickers\/asx-jdo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ASX: JDO<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Judo share price is 90 cents, down 1.4% today and down 44% over 12 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UBS downgraded Judo shares to a hold rating on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The broker has a 12-month target price of $1.05, indicating a potential 17% upside over FY27.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Data#3 share price is $9.54, up 1.2% today and 25% higher over 12 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Stanley downgraded the ASX <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/investing-education\/technology\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tech<\/a> share to a hold rating with a $10 target on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This suggests potential capital growth of 5% over the next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The South32 share price is $4.23, down 1.2% today and up 36% over 12 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Morgans downgraded its rating on the ASX 200 mining share from accumulate to hold.<\/p>\n<p>The broker cut its price target from $5 to $4.50, suggesting a potential 6% upside ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Morgans said:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>S32 has agreed to sell its entire ali business for total consideration of US$5.6bn (US$4.1bn upfront), and transfer of US$1.2bn closure\/rehab liabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Our view on S32&#8217;s aluminium sale is genuinely mixed. It leaves S32 a simpler and, in important respects, a better business, but also a smaller and less valuable one.<\/p>\n<p>We reduce our valuation on S32&#8217;s ali assets to in line with the agreed Alcoa deal\u2026 As a result we update our rating to HOLD (from Accumulate).<\/p>\n<p>Turaco Gold Ltd (<a class=\"tickerized-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/tickers\/asx-tcg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ASX: TCG<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The Turaco Gold share price is 48 cents, up 6.7% today and up 4% over 12 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Morgans downgraded the ASX gold share from a buy to a speculative buy rating this week.<\/p>\n<p>The broker slashed its 12-month price target from $2.19 to $1.18.<\/p>\n<p>This still implies a potential 145% upside ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"S&amp;P\/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) shares are down 0.05% to 8,717.2 points on Thursday.\u00a0 As the new financial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-774883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}