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Based on previous WSO threads, if you're looking for top analysts and their rankings, a good resource to check out is tipranks.com. This site provides comprehensive analyst rankings and performance metrics, which can be very useful for identifying top analysts in various sectors.

Additionally, it's important to note that while some analysts may not be top-ranked, they can still provide significant value through corporate access and strong relationships with company management, as highlighted in the WSO discussions.

Sources: Q&A: 3rd year ER analyst, Overview of the Equity research Industry, , Overview of the Equity research Industry, Performance of Top Tier vs. Bottom Tier Analysts (Q&A in Comments)

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Totally depends on the sector, and RU and #3 are pretty different too. Some sectors #1 and #3 are a hairs' breadth apart in market share of votes, some sectors #1 has a monster share like 15% and the last place runner up is 3-4%.

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Right. Typically a lot of runner ups means that #3 is relatively weak, few runner ups means #3 is quite strong.

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