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Fundamental Research Providers

Rank Firm Stocks Buy Neutral Sell Buy-Sell Chart
1
 Sidoti & Co
255 25.77% 18.60% -61.38% 87.15%
2
 TD Securities
1,209 22.92% 14.34% -25.67% 48.59%
3
 Northland Capital Markets
276 14.75% 7.69% -21.12% 35.87%
4
 Deutsche Bank
1,211 16.51% 14.54% -2.49% 19.00%
5
 UBS
1,664 15.16% 13.02% -1.44% 16.60%
6
 Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
317 16.24% 10.75% 0.00% 16.24%
7
 Macquarie Group
421 9.24% 21.90% -5.98% 15.22%
8
 Exane BNP Paribas
428 16.66% 14.64% 1.69% 14.97%
9
 Argus Research Co
501 20.19% 23.30% 5.49% 14.70%
10
 Societe Generale
110 23.89% 20.88% 9.82% 14.07%
11
 Maxim Group LLC
170 13.86% 2.77%
12
 Piper Sandler
1,399 16.45% 16.73% 3.36% 13.09%
13
 Nomura Securities
290 3.34% 11.48% -7.58% 10.92%
14
 CIBC
146 18.12% 12.35% 12.29% 5.83%
15
 Morgan Stanley
1,717 13.45% 16.46% 8.71% 4.74%
16
 Goldman Sachs
1,664 15.12% 14.64% 14.47% 0.65%
17
 JP Morgan
1,880 14.67% 15.07% 14.30% 0.37%
18
 Barclays Bank PLC
1,502 17.94% 16.33% 20.07% -2.13%
19
 Credit Suisse
1,350 10.48% 12.32% 13.14% -2.66%
20
 BMO Capital Markets
1,107 15.96% 16.18% 19.74% -3.78%
21
 Merrill Lynch
2,038 11.49% 12.93% 16.65% -5.16%
22
 Citigroup Investment Research
1,774 13.63% 14.33% 19.77% -6.14%
23
 CFRA Research
841 17.36% 17.59% 25.71% -8.35%
24
 CLSA
97 -11.31% -12.80% 2.81% -14.12%
25
 HSBC
457 10.27% 7.69% 24.77% -14.50%