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Firm by Firm: Tally of Awards Won by 65 Research Firms
Firms are ranked according to the total number of Best on the Street awards their analysts earned. Ties were broken by "batting
No. of
Total Qualifying Batting
Firm Awards Analysts Average
1 Goldman Sachs 22 82 0.268
2 Standard & Poor's 22 89 0.247
3 Merrill Lynch* 17 80 0.212
4 Morgan Stanley 14 55 0.255
5 J.P. Morgan Chase 14 107 0.131
6 Citigroup 11 68 0.162
7 Oppenheimer & Co. 7 45 0.156
8 Raymond James 7 49 0.143
9 Stifel Nicolaus 6 58 0.103
10 Credit Suisse 5 67 0.075
11 UBS 5 77 0.065
12 BMO Capital Markets 4 27 0.148
13 Cowen & Co. 4 34 0.118
14 Robert W. Baird 4 42 0.095
15 Argus Research 4 47 0.085
16 Sandler O'Neill 3 14 0.214
17 Sterne Agee & Leach 3 15 0.200
18 SunTrust Robinson Humphrey 3 17 0.176
19 Stephens 3 20 0.150
20 RBC Capital Markets 3 49 0.061
21 Greenwich Consultants 2 2 1.000
22 Scotia Capital 2 4 0.500
23 Green Street Advisors 2 5 0.400
24 Caris & Co. 2 10 0.200
25 Longbow Research 2 14 0.143
Susquehanna Financial Group 2 14 0.143
27 ThinkEquity 2 17 0.118
28 BB&T Capital Markets 2 20 0.100
29 FTN Equity Capital Markets 2 22 0.091
Stanford Financial 2 22 0.091
31 Sanford C. Bernstein 2 23 0.087
32 FBR Capital Markets 2 36 0.056
33 Sidoti 2 38 0.053
34 Jefferies 2 50 0.040
35 Feltl & Co. 1 1 1.000
Power Insights - Soleil 1 1 1.000
Soleil Securities 1 1 1.000
Williams Capital Group 1 1 1.000
39 Benchmark Co. 1 2 0.500
40 Dresdner Kleinwort 1 3 0.333
Ladenburg Thalmann 1 3 0.333
Langen Mc Alenney 1 3 0.333
National Bank Financial 1 3 0.333
44 ABN Amro 1 4 0.250
Broadpoint Capital 1 4 0.250
Jesup & Lamont 1 4 0.250
Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg 1 4 0.250
Pali Research 1 4 0.250
SMH Capital 1 4 0.250
50 B. Riley 1 5 0.200
Dowling & Partners 1 5 0.200
Garp Research & Securities 1 5 0.200
53 Macquarie Research 1 6 0.167
54 Brean Murray, Carret 1 8 0.125
Hilliard Lyons 1 8 0.125
56 First Analysis Securities 1 10 0.100
Roth Capital Partners 1 10 0.100
Wedbush Morgan 1 10 0.100
59 Leerink Swann 1 11 0.091
60 HSBC 1 13 0.077
61 D.A. Davidson 1 16 0.062
62 Edward Jones 1 17 0.059
63 Morgan Keegan 1 23 0.043
64 Keefe Bruyette & Woods 1 33 0.030
65 Deutsche Bank 1 67 0.015
Source: FactSet Estimates
* Bank of America Corp. acquired Merrill Lynch & Co. at the end of 2008; its research unit is now known as Banc of Ame
ned. Ties were broken by "batting averages," which are each firm's number of awards divided by the number of analysts it had who qualified
nit is now known as Banc of America Securities-Merrill Lynch. They were separate entities in 2008.
ber of analysts it had who qualified for the survey. In the case of remaining ties, the firms are listed alphabetically. There were 220 awards th
etically. There were 220 awards this year, or five in each of 44 industry groups. The number of "awards" and "qualifying analysts" include som
nd "qualifying analysts" include some counted in more than one sector.
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