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Fundamental Research Providers

Rank Firm Stocks Buy Neutral Sell Buy-Sell Chart
1
 Sidoti & Co
255 30.91% 26.81% -71.53% 102.44%
2
 Argus Research Co
503 22.90% 17.97% -40.14% 63.04%
3
 Northland Capital Markets
278 37.23% 19.52% -24.38% 61.61%
4
 TD Securities
1,218 32.43% 25.05% -10.53% 42.96%
5
 CIBC
146 28.43% 26.93% -3.62% 32.05%
6
 Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
316 25.37% 17.60% 0.00% 25.37%
7
 Societe Generale
110 34.21% 23.95% 19.24% 14.97%
8
 UBS
1,680 24.74% 21.31% 10.36% 14.38%
9
 Deutsche Bank
1,240 22.52% 18.61% 8.39% 14.13%
10
 Exane BNP Paribas
423 23.48% 19.91% 11.62% 11.86%
11
 Macquarie Group
426 14.93% 26.79% 7.68% 7.25%
12
 Maxim Group LLC
170 7.01% 9.82%
13
 Piper Sandler
1,425 28.90% 22.62% 22.62% 6.28%
14
 Nomura Securities
298 15.42% 13.68% 10.38% 5.04%
15
 Morgan Stanley
1,745 22.22% 19.03% 22.94% -0.72%
16
 Goldman Sachs
1,703 21.03% 23.52% 22.06% -1.03%
17
 Barclays Bank PLC
1,522 24.25% 21.37% 26.06% -1.81%
18
 JP Morgan
1,888 25.77% 21.66% 30.35% -4.58%
19
 Credit Suisse
1,395 21.16% 20.53% 26.84% -5.68%
20
 Merrill Lynch
2,079 19.26% 23.26% 25.19% -5.93%
21
 CFRA Research
875 17.65% 21.27% 26.36% -8.71%
22
 Citigroup Investment Research
1,819 25.58% 18.42% 35.61% -10.03%
23
 HSBC
432 20.85% 18.35% 40.46% -19.61%
24
 CLSA
94 3.93% -11.25% 32.25% -28.32%
25
 BMO Capital Markets
1,119 25.43% 22.80% 54.55% -29.12%