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Fundamental Research Providers

Rank Firm Stocks Buy Neutral Sell Buy-Sell Chart
1
 Sidoti & Co
262 9.64% 8.36% -59.78% 69.42%
2
 Northland Capital Markets
274 14.57% 5.94% -46.62% 61.19%
3
 Argus Research Co
499 16.06% 7.02% -32.52% 48.58%
4
 CIBC
149 31.86% 37.33% -5.96% 37.82%
5
 TD Securities
1,228 18.50% 12.22% -0.09% 18.59%
6
 Exane BNP Paribas
405 18.96% 13.77% 4.06% 14.90%
7
 Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
327 13.97% 4.94% 0.00% 13.97%
8
 UBS
1,679 16.21% 9.43% 2.73% 13.48%
9
 Maxim Group LLC
170 12.62% -19.08%
10
 JP Morgan
1,931 17.56% 12.17% 11.73% 5.83%
11
 Deutsche Bank
1,270 14.18% 6.01% 9.47% 4.71%
12
 Goldman Sachs
1,761 14.37% 11.52% 10.78% 3.59%
13
 CFRA Research
891 12.23% 14.76% 11.11% 1.12%
14
 Societe Generale
114 23.76% 15.14% 23.26% 0.50%
15
 Barclays Bank PLC
1,531 11.37% 10.97% 11.09% 0.28%
16
 Credit Suisse
1,446 14.07% 11.81% 14.78% -0.71%
17
 Piper Sandler
1,482 10.65% 5.53% 11.49% -0.84%
18
 Morgan Stanley
1,810 11.59% 9.73% 12.60% -1.01%
19
 Merrill Lynch
2,134 13.32% 13.89% 15.33% -2.01%
19
 Citigroup Investment Research
1,876 15.23% 8.35% 17.24% -2.01%
21
 Macquarie Group
438 9.80% 8.85% 13.83% -4.03%
22
 Nomura Securities
301 5.88% 9.32% 14.24% -8.36%
23
 BMO Capital Markets
1,119 18.84% 12.82% 30.42% -11.58%
24
 HSBC
436 19.30% 17.32% 33.44% -14.14%
25
 CLSA
88 18.07% -2.73% 60.94% -42.87%