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Fundamental Research Providers

Rank Firm Stocks Buy Neutral Sell Buy-Sell Chart
1
 Sidoti & Co
256 18.51% 14.13% -67.50% 86.01%
2
 TD Securities
1,207 17.24% 10.34% -34.16% 51.40%
3
 Northland Capital Markets
274 6.65% -0.39% -27.42% 34.07%
4
 Argus Research Co
502 16.07% 16.62% -9.32% 25.39%
5
 Exane BNP Paribas
425 12.56% 8.94% -7.19% 19.75%
6
 CIBC
145 14.50% 14.15% -4.13% 18.63%
7
 Deutsche Bank
1,211 9.89% 9.92% -7.07% 16.96%
8
 Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
317 13.62% 7.93% 0.00% 13.62%
9
 UBS
1,662 11.98% 9.65% -0.84% 12.82%
10
 Piper Sandler
1,403 13.24% 13.35% 1.98% 11.26%
11
 Societe Generale
110 23.41% 21.07% 14.03% 9.38%
12
 Macquarie Group
421 2.28% 19.58% -6.63% 8.91%
13
 Nomura Securities
291 -1.77% 5.08% -10.39% 8.62%
14
 Morgan Stanley
1,716 11.18% 11.91% 8.35% 2.83%
15
 JP Morgan
1,877 12.83% 11.76% 12.14% 0.69%
16
 Goldman Sachs
1,664 11.05% 10.85% 11.98% -0.93%
17
 Barclays Bank PLC
1,502 14.17% 10.23% 16.14% -1.97%
18
 Merrill Lynch
2,039 8.42% 9.50% 11.14% -2.72%
19
 Credit Suisse
1,353 7.55% 10.26% 10.92% -3.37%
20
 CFRA Research
842 12.04% 13.68% 19.10% -7.06%
21
 BMO Capital Markets
1,107 12.37% 12.34% 19.61% -7.24%
22
 Citigroup Investment Research
1,774 10.77% 9.06% 21.15% -10.38%
23
 CLSA
97 -13.69% -16.52% 3.60% -17.29%
24
 HSBC
457 9.85% 5.79% 35.14% -25.29%