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Fundamental Research Providers

Rank Firm Stocks Buy Neutral Sell Buy-Sell Chart
1
 Sidoti & Co
256 20.23% 14.88% -68.94% 89.17%
2
 TD Securities
1,211 18.74% 11.77% -35.15% 53.89%
3
 Argus Research Co
502 17.26% 17.17% -30.23% 47.49%
4
 Northland Capital Markets
274 8.28% 0.54% -27.03% 35.31%
5
 Exane BNP Paribas
425 13.83% 9.80% -6.48% 20.31%
6
 Deutsche Bank
1,215 11.17% 11.20% -7.73% 18.90%
7
 CIBC
145 15.15% 15.22% -2.93% 18.08%
8
 Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
318 16.13% 9.37% 0.00% 16.13%
9
 UBS
1,666 13.01% 10.61% -0.30% 13.31%
10
 Piper Sandler
1,409 14.96% 14.33% 2.59% 12.37%
11
 Macquarie Group
421 3.23% 19.47% -6.17% 9.40%
12
 Nomura Securities
292 -0.66% 6.48% -8.10% 7.44%
13
 Societe Generale
110 22.23% 21.84% 16.31% 5.92%
14
 Morgan Stanley
1,720 12.18% 12.67% 8.91% 3.27%
15
 JP Morgan
1,879 13.83% 12.53% 12.75% 1.08%
16
 Goldman Sachs
1,668 12.13% 11.70% 12.77% -0.64%
17
 Barclays Bank PLC
1,503 15.34% 11.24% 16.68% -1.34%
18
 Credit Suisse
1,355 8.41% 11.00% 10.97% -2.56%
19
 Merrill Lynch
2,043 9.30% 10.52% 12.06% -2.76%
20
 CFRA Research
842 13.24% 14.62% 19.51% -6.27%
21
 BMO Capital Markets
1,108 13.20% 13.47% 21.93% -8.73%
22
 Citigroup Investment Research
1,777 11.86% 9.77% 22.33% -10.47%
23
 CLSA
97 -12.88% -15.64% 4.55% -17.43%
24
 HSBC
459 10.90% 6.82% 34.84% -23.94%