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Fundamental Research Providers

Rank Firm Stocks Buy Neutral Sell Buy-Sell Chart
1
 Sidoti & Co
255 26.45% 23.01% -70.42% 96.87%
2
 Argus Research Co
503 19.41% 10.30% -40.60% 60.01%
3
 Northland Capital Markets
277 34.42% 15.67% -20.07% 54.49%
4
 TD Securities
1,218 30.45% 20.27% -18.18% 48.63%
5
 CIBC
146 25.06% 21.90% -8.31% 33.37%
6
 Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
316 19.99% 11.27% 0.00% 19.99%
7
 Societe Generale
110 29.72% 21.73% 10.19% 19.53%
8
 UBS
1,673 21.88% 16.74% 3.72% 18.16%
9
 Piper Sandler
1,423 25.61% 17.65% 10.69% 14.92%
10
 Deutsche Bank
1,239 18.96% 13.46% 4.45% 14.51%
11
 Exane BNP Paribas
422 18.91% 16.16% 4.58% 14.33%
12
 Macquarie Group
426 10.46% 20.58% 3.55% 6.91%
13
 Maxim Group LLC
170 2.34% 5.25%
14
 Goldman Sachs
1,703 17.98% 20.32% 16.72% 1.26%
15
 Barclays Bank PLC
1,522 21.05% 17.22% 20.93% 0.12%
15
 Morgan Stanley
1,744 19.10% 15.02% 18.98% 0.12%
17
 Nomura Securities
298 11.95% 9.82% 12.49% -0.54%
18
 JP Morgan
1,884 23.01% 17.45% 25.38% -2.37%
19
 CFRA Research
875 13.78% 15.41% 18.71% -4.93%
19
 Merrill Lynch
2,078 16.31% 17.69% 21.24% -4.93%
21
 Credit Suisse
1,395 17.62% 15.54% 23.36% -5.74%
22
 Citigroup Investment Research
1,820 21.67% 14.45% 28.29% -6.62%
23
 CLSA
94 0.12% -12.08% 15.39% -15.27%
24
 HSBC
432 15.67% 13.17% 34.14% -18.47%
25
 BMO Capital Markets
1,119 21.82% 18.47% 52.80% -30.98%