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Forbes Special Report: Blue Chip Stock Analysts

Forbes.com collaborated with Zacks Investment Research to identify the best and brightest analysts on Wall Street.

The Haub School of Business has a state of the art Wall Street Trading Room. 

The WSTR offers a number of resources, including Bloomberg and Morningstar Principia. 

Visit the WSTR page for more information.

This guide recommends analyst content that can be located in our Library and HSB subscriptions, including

• Zacks
• Value Line Research Center
• Morningstar
• Standard & Poor's

For more, consult the Finance guide. 

Investopedia: Analyst

SECURITIES ANALYST

Individual, usually employed by a stock brokerage house, bank, or investment institution, who performs investment research and examines the financial condition of a company or group of companies in an industry and in the context of the securities markets. Many analysts specialize in a single industry or SECTOR and make investment recommendations to buy, sell, or hold in that area. Among a corporation’s financial indicators most closely followed by ANALYSTS are sales and earnings growth, CAPITAL STRUCTURE, stock price trend and PRICE/EARNINGS RATIO, DIVIDEND PAYOUTS, and RETURN ON INVESTED CAPITAL. Securities analysts promote corporate financial disclosure by sponsoring forums through associations, such as the ASSOCIATION FOR INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH and its member societies and chapters, such as the New York Society of Security Analysts. See also FORECASTING; FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TECHNICAL ANALYSIS.

SECURITIES ANALYST. (2003). In Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms, Barron's. Hauppauge, NY: Barron's Educational Series. in Credo Reference - info