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Fundamental Research Providers

Rank Firm Stocks Buy Neutral Sell Buy-Sell Chart
1
 Northland Capital Markets
272 14.53% 2.87% -52.59% 67.12%
2
 Sidoti & Co
264 4.53% 2.54% -49.28% 53.81%
3
 Argus Research Co
499 17.20% 5.31% -30.67% 47.87%
4
 CIBC
149 28.79% 35.29% -15.54% 44.33%
5
 Exane BNP Paribas
398 18.10% 12.99% -1.19% 19.29%
6
 TD Securities
1,208 17.56% 11.59% 4.03% 13.53%
7
 CFRA Research
896 15.92% 12.27% 3.59% 12.33%
8
 Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
330 12.17% 5.25% 0.00% 12.17%
9
 Deutsche Bank
1,269 15.20% 6.86% 4.12% 11.08%
10
 Credit Suisse
1,447 15.83% 10.60% 8.81% 7.02%
11
 JP Morgan
1,920 19.76% 11.74% 12.76% 7.00%
12
 Goldman Sachs
1,757 15.48% 13.51% 9.83% 5.65%
13
 Morgan Stanley
1,806 15.47% 10.31% 11.25% 4.22%
14
 Macquarie Group
437 15.53% 13.89% 13.04% 2.49%
15
 Piper Sandler
1,481 12.12% 8.29% 9.64% 2.48%
16
 Merrill Lynch
2,129 14.72% 15.18% 13.42% 1.30%
17
 Barclays Bank PLC
1,515 12.59% 11.59% 11.87% 0.72%
18
 Nomura Securities
301 12.59% 8.33% 13.07% -0.48%
19
 Citigroup Investment Research
1,875 15.14% 9.24% 16.34% -1.20%
20
 BMO Capital Markets
1,116 19.56% 12.30% 23.86% -4.30%
21
 HSBC
433 20.99% 20.61% 27.47% -6.48%
22
 Societe Generale
114 15.32% 18.83% 24.27% -8.95%
23
 UBS
1,669 15.55% 11.29% 36.35% -20.80%
24
 CLSA
89 23.34% -3.24% 66.09% -42.75%