Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Equity research firms worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,819 equity research firms worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 47,036 professional contacts across them, including 14,582 with verified work emails. India is the largest market and New York the largest hub.
This list covers equity research firms worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for equity research firms follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest equity research firms worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11,150 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Morningstar, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 5,009 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Acuity Knowledge Partners (Acuity) is a leading provider of bespoke research, analytics and technology solutions to the financial services sector, including asset managers…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,422 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Third Bridge is a leading global investment research firm established in 2007.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,256 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tradebulls Securities (P) Limited is one of the fastest growing broking houses in India serving 2L+ clients through business partners and employees.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 974 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Arihant Capital Markets Limited is a public limited company incorporated in 1992, with a mission to make every Indian financially independent by offering suitable investment…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 878 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mofid Securities is Iran’s largest full-service stock brokerage firm & leading private investment advisory which has been ranked first by the SEO since 2007.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 848 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2005, Seeking Alpha is an industry-leading financial research platform powered by one of the world’s largest investing communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 816 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Connect and Converse with likeminded people, Contribute and share your thoughts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 545 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Motley Fool’s name comes from William Shakespeare’s play “As You Like It”.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 474 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “KBW (Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc, operating in the U.S, and Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited, also trading as Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Europe, operating in Europe) is a Stifel…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 429 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “William O’Neil India is part of the O’Neil companies, a family of businesses dedicated to providing industry-leading financial services and information.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 378 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bernstein is widely recognized as a premier global equity research and brokerage firm, with a trading platform that spans the US, Europe, and Asia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 341 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BDA is an investment advisory firm founded in 1994, initially to serve Morgan Stanley and its clients then our own.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 340 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners is a full-service, national investment firm and SEC registered broker-dealer since 1980.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 306 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BCA Research is a leading global provider of independent investment research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 295 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ISI, founded in 1991, strives to be the Street’s best investment research resource for our clients' money management performance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 292 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since Wolfe Research, LLC’s founding in 2008, our mission has been to deliver best-in-class research and service-providing timely, rigorous, and unconflicted insights from the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 273 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ROTH Capital Partners is a relationship-driven investment bank focused on serving growth companies and their investors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 271 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Aurel BGC is a French investment company created from the merger of ETC Pollak and Aurel on October 1, 2008.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 268 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PhillipCapital India Pvt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 264 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CD Equisearch is one of the leading brokerage houses with a strong presence in the institutional and HNI broking segment With over 30 years of experience, you could be sure of the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 221 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Acreditamos em 3 pilares de negócio para oferecer a melhor experiência para nossos clientes: Informação, Curadoria e Atendimento.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 212 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Where rich legacy and modern approach come together.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 212 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Epic Research is a leading financial services provider with presence in Indian and other global capital markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 209 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Investor's Business Daily, our mission is to help our subscribers make more money in the stock market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: equity research firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names equity research firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of equity research firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name equity research firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
Showing 25 of 1,819 equity research firms worldwide
See the full list, filter by size, metro and specialty, and get verified emails and direct dials for all 14,582 reachable decision-makers.
Free signup · no credit card
Equity research firms worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among equity research firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for equity research firms are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “equity research firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names equity research firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among equity research firms, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 14,582 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Equity research firms by location
9 lists · largest firstEvery Equity research firms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Equity research firms based in India429
- Equity research firms based in the United States385
- Equity research firms based in the United Kingdom86
- Equity research firms based in Canada57
- Equity research firms based in Australia40
- Equity research firms based in Brazil40
- Equity research firms based in Germany25
Cities
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names equity research firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many equity research firms are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,819 equity research firms worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Morningstar, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most equity research firms?
India leads with 429 companies, followed by the United States (385) and the United Kingdom (86). Every equity research firms list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most equity research firms?
New York leads with 92 headquartered companies, followed by Mumbai (65) and London (61).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 14,582 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,819 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
Ready to reach these companies? Verified emails and direct dials for all 1,819 equity research firms worldwide. Start with a free account, no credit card.
Download this list →Related lists
Browse the directory
About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.