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Fundamental Research Providers

Rank Firm Stocks Buy Neutral Sell Buy-Sell Chart
1
 Sidoti & Co
255 22.99% 15.98% -80.02% 103.01%
2
 TD Securities
1,211 20.01% 11.95% -30.71% 50.72%
3
 Northland Capital Markets
279 21.11% 11.52% -25.03% 46.14%
4
 Argus Research Co
502 15.61% 9.31% -9.11% 24.72%
5
 Exane BNP Paribas
422 15.74% 9.77% -4.99% 20.73%
6
 Deutsche Bank
1,221 13.18% 9.46% -5.83% 19.01%
7
 CIBC
143 15.77% 10.54% -1.77% 17.54%
8
 Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
320 15.28% 6.15% 0.00% 15.28%
9
 Piper Sandler
1,418 15.47% 13.53% 0.69% 14.78%
10
 UBS
1,666 14.19% 9.35% 0.85% 13.34%
11
 Societe Generale
110 20.66% 20.07% 7.50% 13.16%
12
 Macquarie Group
421 4.99% 17.04% -4.61% 9.60%
13
 Maxim Group LLC
170 8.51% 2.73%
14
 Nomura Securities
294 1.73% 7.84% -3.84% 5.57%
15
 Morgan Stanley
1,734 13.66% 11.81% 9.62% 4.04%
16
 JP Morgan
1,877 15.74% 12.24% 14.53% 1.21%
17
 Goldman Sachs
1,680 12.14% 11.81% 12.09% 0.05%
18
 Barclays Bank PLC
1,491 14.75% 11.26% 15.37% -0.62%
19
 Merrill Lynch
2,057 10.51% 9.28% 12.54% -2.03%
20
 Credit Suisse
1,365 9.24% 10.55% 12.47% -3.23%
21
 CFRA Research
842 12.73% 11.25% 16.60% -3.87%
22
 Citigroup Investment Research
1,790 13.73% 9.87% 22.60% -8.87%
23
 BMO Capital Markets
1,114 11.75% 11.85% 22.12% -10.37%
24
 CLSA
97 -9.41% -20.08% 6.94% -16.35%
25
 HSBC
435 12.70% 6.28% 32.48% -19.78%