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Fundamental Research Providers

Rank Firm Stocks Buy Neutral Sell Buy-Sell Chart
1
 Argus Research Co
475 14.29% 8.44% -24.24% 38.53%
2
 Northland Capital Markets
157 -0.67% -6.71% -23.58% 22.91%
3
 Exane BNP Paribas
303 8.85% 7.98% -9.39% 18.24%
4
 Piper Sandler
1,097 16.62% 44.01% -0.31% 16.93%
5
 Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
283 17.26% 11.82% 0.36% 16.90%
6
 Barclays Bank PLC
1,111 17.29% 4.99% 6.75% 10.54%
7
 CFRA Research
842 14.02% 7.39% 3.89% 10.13%
8
 Deutsche Bank
1,000 12.19% 6.55% 3.59% 8.60%
9
 Goldman Sachs
1,198 12.70% 13.02% 4.12% 8.58%
10
 Credit Suisse
1,120 9.51% 7.90% 1.10% 8.41%
11
 UBS
1,199 14.38% 6.82% 6.44% 7.94%
12
 Nomura Securities
250 15.70% 13.99% 9.49% 6.21%
13
 Macquarie Group
341 7.06% 6.50% 2.26% 4.80%
14
 Merrill Lynch
1,520 11.97% 8.30% 7.92% 4.05%
15
 Morgan Stanley
1,261 11.22% 7.03% 7.39% 3.83%
16
 Sidoti & Co
259 16.64% 1.27% 15.45% 1.19%
17
 HSBC
303 2.55% 8.72% 4.41% -1.86%
18
 JP Morgan
1,381 10.63% 37.39% 12.50% -1.87%
19
 Citigroup Investment Research
1,368 14.49% 31.76% 17.43% -2.94%
20
 TD Securities
764 18.83% 10.48% 24.66% -5.83%
21
 Maxim Group LLC
168 -8.29% -3.15%
22
 CIBC
123 10.34% 10.69% 19.12% -8.78%
23
 Societe Generale
102 2.18% 11.58% 11.27% -9.09%
24
 CLSA
28 1.67% 19.36% -17.69%
25
 BMO Capital Markets
862 8.59% 45.57% 28.45% -19.86%