Sell-side analyst, the Glossary
A sell-side analyst works for an investment bank or a brokerage firm and evaluates companies for future earnings growth and other investment criteria.[1]
Table of Contents
12 relations: Broker, Buy-side analyst, Conflict of interest, Dot-com bubble, Henry Blodget, Jack Grubman, Market maker, Securities research, Sell side, Stock, Trade idea, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
- Financial analysts
Broker
A broker is a person who or entity which arranges transactions between a buyer and a seller.
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Buy-side analyst
Buy-side analysts ("buy-siders") work for buy side money management firms such as mutual funds, pension funds, trusts, family offices, and hedge funds. Sell-side analyst and buy-side analyst are financial analysts.
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Conflict of interest
A conflict of interest (COI) is a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple interests, financial or otherwise, and serving one interest could involve working against another.
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Dot-com bubble
The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000.
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Henry Blodget
Henry McKelvey Blodget (born 1966) is an American businessman, investor and journalist.
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Jack Grubman
Jack Benjamin Grubman is an American former managing director of Salomon Smith Barney and the lead research analyst for the telecommunications sector.
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Market maker
A market maker or liquidity provider is a company or an individual that quotes both a buy and a sell price in a tradable asset held in inventory, hoping to make a profit on the bid–ask spread, or turn. The benefit to the firm is that it makes money from doing so; the benefit to the market is that this helps limit price variation (volatility) by setting a limited trading price range for the assets being traded.
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Securities research
Securities research is a discipline within the financial services industry.
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Sell side
Sell side is a term used in the financial services industry to mean providing services to sell securities.
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Stock
Stocks (also capital stock, or sometimes interchangeably, shares) consist of all the shares by which ownership of a corporation or company is divided.
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Trade idea
Trade ideas (or trading ideas, or "Electronic Alpha-Capture") are investment ideas, typically equity related, ("long" i.e. buy, or "short" i.e. sell) which are sent by institutional stockbrokers to their institutional clients (i.e. this is not a service provided to private clients); recipients of trade ideas are thus hedge funds, a bank’s proprietary trading desks, and money managers.
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government, created in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
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See also
Financial analysts
- Accounting analyst
- Buy-side analyst
- Chartist (occupation)
- Cost analyst
- Credit analyst
- Financial analyst
- Jing Chi
- Quantitative analysis (finance)
- Sell-side analyst
- Stephen Osho
- Structurer
- Systems analysis