The Raymond James Equity Research Department is comprised of highly experienced, qualified professionals who understand that sound investing begins with access to insightful, reliable, and timely information. With quality information, institutional and retail investors alike can sort through the hype and headlines of literally thousands of stocks in hundreds of sectors and target the best ideas with the best potential for superior returns based on their own investment criteria.

Foundation for Sound Investment Decisions

Quality research is focused, yet complete, and does more than merely keep tabs on a limited universe of stocks. To provide the foundation for sound investment decisions, the Raymond James Equity Research team of expert market analysts concentrates on eight core industries of focus and offers investors a complete view through:

• Extensive industry knowledge gleaned from extensive primary and secondary research and often many years of personal experience
• Insightful and timely company-specific information delivered to investors quickly
• Detailed knowledge and value-added insight into all operators within covered sectors
• View of the short- and long-term factors affecting the industry and company
• Top-notch written research, including quick notes analyzing important events to extensive company and industry reports detailing a full investment picture for a sector
• Constant communication with company sources
• Channel checks to vendors, customers, competitors, regulatory agencies, and many others 
• Macro research from economic, strategic, and technical experts to complement fundamental research

Combining all of these perspectives, our team allows investors to make the fully informed, yet timely investment decisions that can lead to long-term capital appreciation.

Industries of Focus

Our Equity Research team provides this complete view for its institutional and retail clients on eight core industries:  Business & Industrial Services, Consumer, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Real Estate, Technology, and Telecommunications. Our team of more than 40 fundamental analysts covers more than 750 companies within these eight industries and more than 40 sectors. In addition to covering many small- to mid-cap, growth-oriented companies, our Equity Research team maintains its complete view by following many of the major players in its covered sectors and supplements this full range of company-focused research with a variety of industry analyses.

Expert Market Analysts

Our fundamental research is complemented by some of the best-known, oft-quoted market analysts in the business, including Chief Market Technician Art Huprich, Investment Strategist Jeffrey Saut, and Chief Economist Scott J. Brown. Finally, our Recommended Lists provide investors with a final bit of focus to cull our 750-company coverage universe down to select lists of stocks that we believe provide particularly timely investments with superior performance potential. These recommended lists include the Sector Spotlight, the well-known Focus List, and Analysts Best Picks, among others.

Disclaimer

Technology, small-cap, and mid-cap securities generally involve greater risks.