This paper investigates whether investors can make profits from security analyst recommendations. This paper constructs portfolios based on the strength of recommendation and shows that there exists positive abnormal return of the most favorable portfolios, while portfolios with the least favorable consensus recommendations yield significantly negative abnormal return. Recommendation from local analysts has higher abnormal return than those reported by foreign analysts. Less delayed investments enjoy higher price drifts with lower delayed costs after recommendation release which leads to higher abnormal return.