Securities research

Securities research is a discipline within the financial services industry. Securities research professionals are known most generally as "analysts", "research analysts", or "securities analysts"; all the foregoing terms are synonymous. Research analysts produce research reports and typically issue a recommendation: buy ("overweight"), hold, or sell ("underweight"); see target price and trade idea.

Investment banks Argus Research Company Atlantic Equities Baird Bank of America Securities Barclays Capital BMO Capital Markets BNP Paribas Cantor Fitzgerald Citigroup Cowen, Inc. Credit Suisse Deutsche Bank Evercore Partners Fundamental Research Goldman Sachs HSBC Jefferies Financial Group JPMorgan Chase Lazard Loop Capital Macquarie Group Morgan Stanley Needham Nomura Holdings Piper Sandler Raymond James RBC Capital Markets Tigress UBS Wells Fargo Independent Bloomberg (independent institutional global research firm) Monness & Crespi Morningstar, Inc. (independent institutional global research firm) Standard & Poor's, which provides its reports through some discount brokerages (e.g. TD Ameritrade) The Motley Fool, which provides private financial and investing advice

These reports can be accessed from a number of sources, and brokerages will often offer the reports free to their customers. Research can be categorized by the security type, as well as by whether it is buy-side research or sell-side research; analysts further focus on particular industries. Although usually associated with fundamental analysis, research also focuses on technical analysis, and reports will often include both. See also Financial analyst § Securities firms.

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