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Fundamental Research Providers

Rank Firm Stocks Buy Neutral Sell Buy-Sell Chart
1
 Northland Capital Markets
270 17.74% 7.47% -50.60% 68.34%
2
 Sidoti & Co
264 3.08% 0.72% -46.46% 49.54%
3
 Argus Research Co
499 16.29% 5.39% -30.23% 46.52%
4
 CIBC
149 30.22% 38.93% -12.29% 42.51%
5
 Exane BNP Paribas
397 17.14% 12.81% -0.61% 17.75%
6
 CFRA Research
893 15.34% 11.94% 3.17% 12.17%
7
 Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
330 12.95% 5.64% 0.81% 12.14%
8
 Deutsche Bank
1,266 14.25% 6.86% 3.70% 10.55%
9
 TD Securities
1,205 19.35% 13.57% 10.78% 8.57%
10
 Credit Suisse
1,447 15.54% 11.64% 9.98% 5.56%
11
 Goldman Sachs
1,756 15.97% 15.15% 10.91% 5.06%
12
 JP Morgan
1,915 20.51% 12.46% 16.04% 4.47%
13
 Morgan Stanley
1,802 15.31% 10.83% 11.85% 3.46%
14
 Macquarie Group
438 14.74% 15.08% 11.51% 3.23%
15
 Piper Sandler
1,478 13.92% 10.17% 10.83% 3.09%
16
 Barclays Bank PLC
1,510 13.42% 12.31% 12.40% 1.02%
17
 Merrill Lynch
2,127 15.09% 15.45% 15.27% -0.18%
18
 Nomura Securities
301 11.31% 7.52% 12.84% -1.53%
19
 Citigroup Investment Research
1,872 16.29% 10.16% 18.87% -2.58%
20
 HSBC
433 19.90% 20.40% 24.47% -4.57%
21
 Societe Generale
114 15.02% 17.98% 22.91% -7.89%
22
 BMO Capital Markets
1,116 20.36% 13.10% 29.72% -9.36%
23
 UBS
1,668 15.89% 12.52% 36.25% -20.36%
24
 CLSA
88 20.10% -5.16% 63.30% -43.20%