Company lists · Data refreshed November 2026

Top 25 Sell-side research providers worldwide

RevenueBase identified 2,109 company matches for sell-side research providers worldwide as of November 2026 and tracks 63,269 professional contacts across them, including 21,942 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.

This list covers company matches for sell-side research providers 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 sell-side research providers 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
2,109Companies
63,269Contacts tracked
21,942Verified emails
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The 25 largest sell-side research providers worldwide

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 2,109 company matches for sell-side research providers 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 matchNew York, NY, United StatesHQ recorded Nov 6, 20261,001-5,0008,001 contacts →

Exact match

“MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community.”

Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase
3Exact matchTokyo, Hong KongHQ recorded Nov 6, 20261,001-5,0002,693 contacts →

Exact match

“CITIC Securities International is a wholly owned subsidiary of CITIC Securities and its overseas business platform.”

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4Exact 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…”

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5Exact 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.”

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6Exact 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.”

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7Exact matchHyderabad, IndiaHQ recorded Nov 6, 20261,001-5,0001,268 contacts →

Exact match

“GD Research Center Pvt.”

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8Exact matchBoston, United StatesHQ recorded Nov 6, 2026501-1,0001,059 contacts →

Exact match

“For a century, Loomis, Sayles & Company has built a legacy focused on fulfilling the investment needs of institutional and retail clients worldwide.”

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9Exact 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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10Exact 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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11Exact matchMumbai, NY, IndiaHQ recorded Nov 6, 2026501-1,000779 contacts →

Exact match

“We are a global research analytics and advisory firm with over 20 years of experience in helping organizations take strategic business and investment decisions fearlessly and with…”

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12Exact matchNew York, NY, United StatesHQ recorded Nov 6, 2026201-500571 contacts →

Exact match

“Market Research Future (MRFR) is one of the most trusted firms for syndicated research services.”

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13Exact 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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14Exact 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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15Exact 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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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 match新加坡, SingaporeHQ recorded Nov 6, 202651-200372 contacts →

Exact match

“BDA is an investment advisory firm founded in 1994, initially to serve Morgan Stanley and its clients then our own.”

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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, 202651-200332 contacts →

Exact match

“Report Prime has been founded with the fundamental belief to change the world by words.”

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22Exact matchWilmington, DE, United StatesHQ recorded Nov 6, 2026201-500309 contacts →

Exact match

“Transparency Market Research Pvt.”

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23Exact matchWashington Dc, DC, United StatesHQ recorded Nov 6, 2026201-500309 contacts →

Exact match

“Verified Market Research (VMR) boasts the most extensive library of B2B niche market insights, with over 323,742 cutting-edge reports as of Q3 2023, reflecting a robust growth…”

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24Exact 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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25Exact matchNew York, NY, United StatesHQ recorded Nov 6, 202651-200297 contacts →

Exact match

“Barron’s is the world's premier investing publication, renowned for its market-moving stories.”

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

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Sell-side research providers worldwide at a glance

As of Nov 6, 2026
34.7%Verified-email coverage
30.0Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
5.6%Largest-city concentration · New York
Nov 6, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
1,134
11-50
593
51-200
232
201-500
90
501-1,000
19
1,001-5,000
14
5,001-10,000
3
10001+
5

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 sell-side research providers are linked below.
What qualifies
Company records worldwide whose business descriptions match “sell-side research providers” 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 21,942 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.

Sell-side research providers by location

11 lists · largest first

Every Sell-side research providers 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 “sell-side research providers”; each Exact match badge shows search membership, not an individual similarity or quality score.

How many sell-side research providers are there worldwide?

RevenueBase identified 2,109 company matches for sell-side research providers 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 sell-side research providers?

The United States leads with 508 companies, followed by India (375) and the United Kingdom (145). Every sell-side research providers list by country and city is linked on this page.

Which city has the most sell-side research providers?

New York leads with 118 company records, followed by London (102) and Pune (71).

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 21,942 professional contacts with verified work emails tracked across these 2,109 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.