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Fundamental Research Providers

Rank Firm Stocks Buy Neutral Sell Buy-Sell Chart
1
 Sidoti & Co
256 20.19% 14.67% -72.80% 92.99%
2
 TD Securities
1,215 16.46% 10.51% -24.94% 41.40%
3
 Northland Capital Markets
277 10.02% 2.67% -26.74% 36.76%
4
 Exane BNP Paribas
426 14.08% 8.88% -5.03% 19.11%
5
 CIBC
143 14.23% 10.78% -4.86% 19.09%
6
 Deutsche Bank
1,223 11.30% 9.05% -6.26% 17.56%
7
 UBS
1,671 12.58% 8.93% -1.26% 13.84%
8
 Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
320 13.07% 5.25% 0.00% 13.07%
9
 Societe Generale
110 23.34% 21.00% 11.33% 12.01%
10
 Macquarie Group
421 3.85% 18.30% -8.13% 11.98%
11
 Piper Sandler
1,419 12.61% 13.27% 1.19% 11.42%
12
 Nomura Securities
294 -0.48% 7.45% -8.16% 7.68%
13
 Maxim Group LLC
170 5.60% -4.76%
14
 Morgan Stanley
1,729 12.05% 11.28% 8.58% 3.47%
15
 JP Morgan
1,882 14.06% 11.44% 12.95% 1.11%
16
 Goldman Sachs
1,679 11.30% 10.68% 10.86% 0.44%
17
 Barclays Bank PLC
1,511 13.73% 10.34% 15.54% -1.81%
18
 Merrill Lynch
2,056 9.02% 9.05% 10.99% -1.97%
19
 Credit Suisse
1,365 8.23% 10.26% 11.40% -3.17%
20
 CFRA Research
841 12.82% 11.97% 17.99% -5.17%
21
 Citigroup Investment Research
1,789 11.75% 9.24% 20.34% -8.59%
22
 BMO Capital Markets
1,112 10.74% 12.36% 21.05% -10.31%
23
 CLSA
97 -10.55% -15.49% 3.95% -14.50%
24
 HSBC
436 11.74% 7.94% 34.06% -22.32%
25
 Argus Research Co
501 16.42% 12.56% 195.69% -179.27%