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Fundamental Research Providers

Rank Firm Stocks Buy Neutral Sell Buy-Sell Chart
1
 Sidoti & Co
255 27.67% 26.86% -67.29% 94.96%
2
 Northland Capital Markets
275 45.26% 30.12% -20.38% 65.64%
3
 Argus Research Co
501 22.68% 12.83% -36.79% 59.47%
4
 TD Securities
1,212 32.01% 24.22% -12.52% 44.53%
5
 CIBC
146 25.70% 23.88% -4.32% 30.02%
6
 Maxim Group LLC
170 28.14% 5.61%
7
 Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
316 23.25% 15.41% 0.00% 23.25%
8
 Societe Generale
110 30.67% 22.56% 13.60% 17.07%
9
 UBS
1,670 22.25% 18.61% 6.72% 15.53%
10
 Deutsche Bank
1,238 22.03% 16.97% 7.60% 14.43%
11
 Macquarie Group
427 13.17% 20.52% 3.13% 10.04%
12
 Exane BNP Paribas
420 21.45% 20.67% 14.55% 6.90%
13
 Nomura Securities
298 15.55% 16.89% 12.12% 3.43%
14
 Piper Sandler
1,422 24.96% 18.25% 23.00% 1.96%
15
 Barclays Bank PLC
1,516 20.92% 19.66% 21.69% -0.77%
16
 Goldman Sachs
1,698 18.80% 21.43% 21.05% -2.25%
17
 Morgan Stanley
1,744 19.05% 15.60% 23.85% -4.80%
18
 Credit Suisse
1,397 18.82% 16.10% 25.22% -6.40%
19
 Merrill Lynch
2,075 17.27% 20.19% 24.02% -6.75%
20
 JP Morgan
1,880 23.12% 19.98% 30.51% -7.39%
21
 CFRA Research
877 14.76% 18.92% 25.10% -10.34%
22
 Citigroup Investment Research
1,818 23.28% 15.71% 35.12% -11.84%
23
 HSBC
430 18.57% 16.56% 36.28% -17.71%
24
 CLSA
89 2.03% -16.75% 33.06% -31.03%
25
 BMO Capital Markets
1,099 22.72% 21.22% 64.50% -41.78%