By winning four titles each, Goodbody and Davy are tied in top position of the Stockbroking Firm Ratings 2006. Although Davy has lost its dominant hold on the ratings, which it had maintained for the past two years, the firm has managed to snatch back, in a very tight finish, one of the survey’s biggest awards ‘Best Irish Equity Research Overall’ award for the 15th time from Goodbody, who won the award last year.
Davy has also won ‘Best Equity Sales Service’ and ‘Best Back Office/Settlement/Service’, both titles affording Davy a three year winning streak from 2004-2006 inclusive.
The second half of this category has been renamed as ‘Best Equity Sales Trading Service’ and NCB emerged as a clear winner here, after coming fourth and third respectively in 2004 & 2005. In what was a strong performance for the firm in this year’s survey, NCB also retained their lead from last year in the category ‘Best Technical Analysis’, as well as winning the ‘Best International Equity Research (Excluding Irish Equities)’ category.
Goodbody has this year retained the 2005 inaugural title of ‘Best Overall Construction & Building Materials Research Service’, while also pipping Davy to the post for first place in not one, but three titles- ‘Best Overall Financials Research Service’, ‘Best Overall Small & Mid-Cap Research Service’ and ‘Best Economic Research’ (which was a new category last year).
Merrion retained its dominant position for the third successive year, at the top of the table in the category ‘Best for Objectivity of Equity Research’, while Collins Stewart built on its strong performance of last year to come in as runner-up in this year’s category of ‘Best Technical Analysis’. The company also put in a good performance, overtaking ABN AMRO and coming fifth in both ‘Best for Objectivity of Equity Research’ and ‘Best Overall Small & Mid-Cap Research Service’. | | Stockbroking Firms Rating |
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