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Fundamental Research Providers

Rank Firm Stocks Buy Neutral Sell Buy-Sell Chart
1
 Sidoti & Co
256 27.39% 25.39% -67.29% 94.68%
2
 Northland Capital Markets
275 55.27% 41.48% -17.38% 72.65%
3
 Argus Research Co
501 23.11% 11.96% -36.79% 59.90%
4
 TD Securities
1,213 33.54% 25.88% -11.97% 45.51%
5
 CIBC
146 27.06% 27.22% -3.98% 31.04%
6
 Maxim Group LLC
170 28.44% 8.10%
7
 Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
317 22.32% 15.22% 0.00% 22.32%
8
 Societe Generale
110 33.97% 23.91% 14.35% 19.62%
9
 UBS
1,672 23.08% 18.96% 7.12% 15.96%
10
 Deutsche Bank
1,236 23.71% 17.25% 10.19% 13.52%
11
 Exane BNP Paribas
421 23.75% 22.10% 13.91% 9.84%
12
 Macquarie Group
427 15.07% 21.70% 9.56% 5.51%
13
 Piper Sandler
1,425 26.18% 18.43% 25.76% 0.42%
14
 Barclays Bank PLC
1,517 21.96% 19.97% 21.95% 0.01%
15
 Nomura Securities
298 17.83% 20.16% 17.95% -0.12%
16
 Goldman Sachs
1,701 19.90% 21.61% 22.83% -2.93%
17
 Morgan Stanley
1,746 20.22% 16.21% 25.19% -4.97%
18
 Credit Suisse
1,401 20.60% 16.19% 26.26% -5.66%
19
 Merrill Lynch
2,077 18.52% 20.63% 25.83% -7.31%
20
 JP Morgan
1,882 24.66% 20.55% 33.71% -9.05%
21
 CFRA Research
876 16.70% 19.23% 25.88% -9.18%
22
 HSBC
431 21.14% 19.07% 34.46% -13.32%
23
 Citigroup Investment Research
1,820 24.99% 15.70% 40.36% -15.37%
24
 CLSA
89 6.47% -15.81% 37.01% -30.54%
25
 BMO Capital Markets
1,100 23.50% 21.16% 71.26% -47.76%