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Fundamental Research Providers

Rank Firm Stocks Buy Neutral Sell Buy-Sell Chart
1
 Northland Capital Markets
270 16.70% 5.75% -48.95% 65.65%
2
 Sidoti & Co
264 -0.65% -2.21% -50.59% 49.94%
3
 Argus Research Co
498 12.09% 1.57% -33.00% 45.09%
4
 CIBC
149 25.83% 33.32% -12.53% 38.36%
5
 Maxim Group LLC
170 22.52% -18.10%
6
 Exane BNP Paribas
397 11.61% 8.30% -4.38% 15.99%
7
 CFRA Research
894 11.23% 7.97% -1.34% 12.57%
8
 Deutsche Bank
1,265 10.29% 3.33% 0.53% 9.76%
9
 TD Securities
1,203 16.03% 10.42% 7.12% 8.91%
10
 Credit Suisse
1,447 11.96% 8.11% 5.75% 6.21%
11
 Piper Sandler
1,478 10.49% 6.26% 4.57% 5.92%
12
 Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
330 5.87% -0.35% 1.21% 4.66%
13
 Goldman Sachs
1,753 12.29% 11.38% 8.00% 4.29%
14
 Morgan Stanley
1,802 11.84% 7.75% 7.70% 4.14%
15
 Macquarie Group
438 11.30% 11.55% 7.38% 3.92%
16
 JP Morgan
1,912 16.60% 8.76% 13.48% 3.12%
17
 Barclays Bank PLC
1,509 9.69% 8.32% 8.62% 1.07%
18
 Merrill Lynch
2,125 11.18% 12.04% 12.41% -1.23%
19
 Nomura Securities
301 7.88% 3.12% 10.16% -2.28%
20
 Citigroup Investment Research
1,870 12.77% 6.84% 16.04% -3.27%
21
 BMO Capital Markets
1,116 16.17% 8.98% 21.66% -5.49%
22
 HSBC
433 16.01% 16.38% 23.08% -7.07%
23
 Societe Generale
114 10.81% 14.88% 19.17% -8.36%
24
 UBS
1,666 11.96% 8.41% 32.96% -21.00%
25
 CLSA
88 18.31% -4.04% 60.12% -41.81%