Let's take a look at what these Wall Street heavyweights have to say about NextEra Energy (NEE) before we discuss the reliability of brokerage recommendations and how to use them to your advantage. NextEra currently has an average brokerage recommendation (ABR) of 1.72, on a scale of 1 to 5 (Strong Buy to Strong Sell), calculated based on the actual recommendations (Buy, Hold, Sell, etc.) made by 18 brokerage firms. An ABR of 1.72 approximates between Strong Buy and Buy. Of the 18 recommendations that deriv ...