Company lists · Data refreshed November 2026

Top 25 Equity research firms worldwide

RevenueBase identified 2,146 company matches for equity research firms worldwide as of November 2026 and tracks 53,935 professional contacts across them, including 17,033 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.

This list covers company matches for equity research firms worldwide, found by RevenueBase SmartSearch using the meaning of business descriptions in its company graph at Exact. Ranked by professionals tracked, largest first. Rows show recorded descriptions where available, Exact search membership and the snapshot date. Data refreshed November 6, 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 SmartSearch, 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.

How to read this list RevenueBase SmartSearch · Exact Recorded Nov 6, 2026 How this list was built
2,146Companies
53,935Contacts tracked
17,033Verified emails
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The 25 largest equity research firms worldwide

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 2,146 company matches for equity research firms worldwide, ordered by professional contacts tracked in RevenueBase, largest first. Recorded Nov 6, 2026. The RevenueBase SmartSearch column shows Exact match membership in this saved search. Click a contact count to view that company's people. Totals use company locations recorded by RevenueBase; the displayed preview is a smaller selection.
#CompanyRevenueBase SmartSearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Exact matchChicago, IL, United StatesHQ recorded Nov 6, 202610001+11,549 contacts →

Exact match

“Morningstar, Inc.”

Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase
2Exact matchLondon, United KingdomHQ recorded Nov 6, 20265,001-10,0002,671 contacts →

Exact match

“Acuity Knowledge Partners (Acuity) is a leading provider of bespoke research, analytics and technology solutions to the financial services sector, including asset managers…”

Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase
3Exact matchLondon, United KingdomHQ recorded Nov 6, 20261,001-5,0002,526 contacts →

Exact match

“Third Bridge is a leading global investment research firm established in 2007.”

Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase
4Exact matchSeattle, WA, United StatesHQ recorded Nov 6, 20261,001-5,0001,629 contacts →

Exact match

“PitchBook is the leading resource for comprehensive data, research and insights spanning the global capital markets.”

Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase
5Exact matchMumbai, IndiaHQ recorded Nov 6, 20261,001-5,0001,316 contacts →

Exact match

“Tradebulls Securities (P) Limited is one of the fastest growing broking houses in India serving 2L+ clients through business partners and employees.”

Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase
6Exact matchMumbai, IndiaHQ recorded Nov 6, 2026201-5001,044 contacts →

Exact match

“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…”

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7Exact matchLondon, NY, United KingdomHQ recorded Nov 6, 2026501-1,000975 contacts →

Exact match

“PEI Group is the leading global provider of business intelligence, data, analytics, and events for private markets professionals.”

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8Exact matchTehran, IranHQ recorded Nov 6, 20261,001-5,000932 contacts →

Exact match

“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.”

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9Exact matchNY, United StatesHQ recorded Nov 6, 2026201-500841 contacts →

Exact match

“Founded in 2005, Seeking Alpha is an industry-leading financial research platform powered by one of the world’s largest investing communities.”

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10Exact matchMumbai, IndiaHQ recorded Nov 6, 2026501-1,000833 contacts →

Exact match

“Connect and Converse with likeminded people, Contribute and share your thoughts.”

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11Exact matchSan Francisco, United StatesHQ recorded Nov 6, 2026501-1,000557 contacts →

Exact match

“Grand View Research is an end-to-end market research technology and consulting business.”

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12Exact matchNew York, NY, United StatesHQ recorded Nov 6, 2026501-1,000495 contacts →

Exact match

“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…”

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13Exact matchBangalore, IndiaHQ recorded Nov 6, 202651-200474 contacts →

Exact match

“William O’Neil India is part of the O’Neil companies, a family of businesses dedicated to providing industry-leading financial services and information.”

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14Exact matchUnited StatesHQ recorded Nov 6, 2026501-1,000468 contacts →

Exact match

“Bernstein is widely recognized as a premier global equity research and brokerage firm, with a trading platform that spans the US, Europe, and Asia.”

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15Exact matchLondon, United KingdomHQ recorded Nov 6, 20261,001-5,000464 contacts →

Exact match

“Preqin empowers financial professionals who invest in or allocate to private markets with essential data and insight to make confident decisions.”

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16Exact matchMelbourne, GermanyHQ recorded Nov 6, 2026201-500435 contacts →

Exact match

“Over more than 50 years, IBISWorld has evolved to be the global leader in industry research.”

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17Exact matchNY, United StatesHQ recorded Nov 6, 2026201-500360 contacts →

Exact match

“A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners is a full-service, national investment firm and SEC registered broker-dealer since 1980.”

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18Exact matchKuala Lumpur, MalaysiaHQ recorded Nov 6, 20261,001-5,000350 contacts →

Exact match

“World′Vest Base (WVB) is a relational database of financial, statistical and market information on active and inactive global companies.”

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19Exact matchMontreal, CanadaHQ recorded Nov 6, 202651-200342 contacts →

Exact match

“BCA Research is a leading global provider of independent investment research.”

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20Exact matchNew York, NY, United StatesHQ recorded Nov 6, 2026201-500332 contacts →

Exact match

“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…”

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21Exact matchMumbai, IndiaHQ recorded Nov 6, 2026201-500321 contacts →

Exact match

“PhillipCapital India Pvt.”

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22Exact matchNew York, United StatesHQ recorded Nov 6, 2026201-500308 contacts →

Exact match

“ISI, founded in 1991, strives to be the Street’s best investment research resource for our clients' money management performance.”

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23Exact matchNew York, NY, United StatesHQ recorded Nov 6, 2026201-500304 contacts →

Exact match

“Arcana enables institutional investors to understand their portfolio risks, decompose single stock & book performance, drill into crowding, and isolate their idiosyncratic…”

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24Exact matchNewport Beach, NY, United StatesHQ recorded Nov 6, 2026201-500290 contacts →

Exact match

“ROTH Capital Partners is a relationship-driven investment bank focused on serving growth companies and their investors.”

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25Exact matchPurchase, United StatesHQ recorded Nov 6, 2026201-500280 contacts →

Exact match

“OTR is a leading platform for primary research and one of the largest channel research firms servicing the institutional investment community.”

Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase

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Equity research firms worldwide at a glance

As of Nov 6, 2026
31.6%Verified-email coverage
25.1Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
5.9%Largest-city concentration · New York
Nov 6, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
1,236
11-50
566
51-200
198
201-500
86
501-1,000
21
1,001-5,000
15
5,001-10,000
3
10001+
4

Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.

How this list was built

The recorded descriptions help you assess these company matches. Check a company’s website for its current services and locations.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase SmartSearch, 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
Company records worldwide whose business descriptions match “equity research firms” by meaning at the Exact setting. Descriptions are compiled in the RevenueBase company graph from public websites, profiles and company information where available; they are not guaranteed quotations from the company's website.
RevenueBase SmartSearch
Describe a niche company in your own words to find businesses by meaning. Exact, Similar, Related and Broad control the breadth of RevenueBase SmartSearch. This saved list uses Exact. Each row's Exact match badge shows inclusion in that search, not an individual score or a service-quality judgment.
Public preview
The public preview omits records without a verified work email. Dataset totals and geographic summaries describe the full matched records before these preview filters.
Match quality
RevenueBase's August 25, 2026 study assessed 4,198 description/company pairs across matching settings. The publisher reports 86% good or better at Exact. This evaluates the method across queries; it does not audit this individual list. Recorded company descriptions, where available, help you judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built and what the study measures.
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 displayed company carries at least one verified work email. RevenueBase tracks 17,033 professional contacts with verified work emails across the full matched dataset. 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 November 6, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Record context
Company records and descriptions can change. Check the company's website for its current services and locations.

Equity research firms by location

12 lists · largest first

Every Equity research firms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.

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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase SmartSearch?

RevenueBase SmartSearch finds niche companies by the meaning of their business descriptions in the RevenueBase company graph. Exact, Similar, Related and Broad control how closely companies must fit your description. This list uses Exact for “equity research firms”; each Exact match badge shows search membership, not an individual similarity or quality score.

How many equity research firms are there worldwide?

RevenueBase identified 2,146 company matches for equity research firms worldwide as of November 2026, using the meaning of business descriptions at Exact. This is the recorded matched set in the RevenueBase company graph.

What is the largest company on this list?

Morningstar tops the displayed preview by professional contacts tracked in RevenueBase. Recorded headquarters appear in the company rows.

Which country has the most equity research firms?

The United States leads with 497 companies, followed by India (455) and the United Kingdom (116). 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 126 company records, followed by London (84) and Mumbai (72).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work limited free results with 500 credits to start. Upgrading provides access to the 17,033 professional contacts with verified work emails tracked across these 2,146 companies; direct dials are available where recorded.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on November 6, 2026.

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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 SmartSearch, 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.