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Fundamental Research Providers

Rank Firm Stocks Buy Neutral Sell Buy-Sell Chart
1
 Sidoti & Co
256 20.10% 10.94% -78.79% 98.89%
2
 Northland Capital Markets
279 25.62% 17.12% -28.66% 54.28%
3
 TD Securities
1,213 24.08% 16.61% -25.15% 49.23%
4
 Argus Research Co
501 15.87% 12.64% -29.46% 45.33%
5
 CIBC
144 22.28% 20.50% -1.49% 23.77%
6
 Exane BNP Paribas
423 14.12% 10.69% -3.85% 17.97%
7
 Maxim Group LLC
170 15.55% 13.76%
8
 Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
320 14.69% 6.68% 0.00% 14.69%
9
 UBS
1,675 15.99% 12.01% 2.86% 13.13%
10
 Societe Generale
110 27.00% 20.23% 14.06% 12.94%
11
 Deutsche Bank
1,235 13.13% 9.93% 0.27% 12.86%
12
 Piper Sandler
1,434 20.41% 13.20% 12.81% 7.60%
13
 Nomura Securities
296 4.59% 6.77% -1.32% 5.91%
14
 Macquarie Group
424 6.49% 20.58% 0.94% 5.55%
15
 Barclays Bank PLC
1,506 16.55% 12.97% 15.34% 1.21%
16
 Morgan Stanley
1,744 14.70% 11.98% 14.40% 0.30%
17
 JP Morgan
1,880 17.00% 13.97% 17.87% -0.87%
18
 Goldman Sachs
1,700 13.15% 14.44% 14.24% -1.09%
19
 Credit Suisse
1,382 13.42% 12.44% 16.73% -3.31%
20
 Merrill Lynch
2,073 11.25% 12.22% 15.74% -4.49%
21
 CFRA Research
853 11.86% 12.47% 16.81% -4.95%
22
 Citigroup Investment Research
1,809 16.43% 10.80% 28.20% -11.77%
23
 BMO Capital Markets
1,122 16.03% 14.15% 33.11% -17.08%
24
 HSBC
434 14.31% 9.71% 33.27% -18.96%
25
 CLSA
97 -5.68% -18.88% 23.44% -29.12%