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Fundamental Research Providers

Rank Firm Stocks Buy Neutral Sell Buy-Sell Chart
1
 Argus Research Co
476 16.93% 13.14% -13.60% 30.53%
2
 Northland Capital Markets
155 -0.35% -9.81% -23.53% 23.18%
3
 Piper Sandler
1,092 17.70% 43.60% -2.93% 20.63%
4
 Exane BNP Paribas
291 15.45% 13.58% -2.50% 17.95%
5
 Deutsche Bank
994 16.84% 11.03% 4.03% 12.81%
6
 CIBC
121 8.99% 7.20% -1.79% 10.78%
7
 Barclays Bank PLC
1,096 17.56% 7.29% 6.97% 10.59%
8
 CFRA Research
847 19.12% 11.36% 9.15% 9.97%
9
 Macquarie Group
336 13.73% 11.14% 4.31% 9.42%
10
 UBS
1,186 14.93% 13.35% 6.76% 8.17%
11
 Goldman Sachs
1,190 16.41% 16.23% 9.20% 7.21%
12
 Credit Suisse
1,120 14.28% 11.91% 7.89% 6.39%
13
 Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
281 9.78% 6.09% 3.40% 6.38%
14
 Merrill Lynch
1,516 13.69% 10.76% 9.24% 4.45%
15
 Morgan Stanley
1,257 14.91% 11.53% 14.01% 0.90%
16
 Citigroup Investment Research
1,368 17.00% 39.40% 16.67% 0.33%
17
 HSBC
296 11.59% 14.09% 13.13% -1.54%
18
 JP Morgan
1,386 13.55% 43.33% 16.90% -3.35%
19
 Nomura Securities
250 19.08% 23.48% 25.89% -6.81%
19
 Societe Generale
102 11.50% 17.29% 18.31% -6.81%
21
 TD Securities
732 16.27% 12.98% 24.98% -8.71%
22
 Maxim Group LLC
165 -13.85% -19.85%
23
 BMO Capital Markets
862 10.50% 48.82% 30.84% -20.34%
24
 CLSA
27 7.87% 33.55% -25.68%
25
 Sidoti & Co
261 16.02% -1.96% 57.92% -41.90%