May 11, 2015

Thomson Reuters Announces Winners of 2015 StarMine Analyst Awards – France

CM-CIC Securities (ESN Partnership) recognized as the top brokerage firm; Arsène Guekam, of CM-CIC Securities (ESN Partnership) and Jean-Michel Köster, also of CM-CIC Securities (ESN Partnership) take top individual awards

London – Thomson Reuters today announced the winners of the 2015 StarMine Analyst Awards for France. This is the twelfth year that StarMine has presented its awards to the top stock analysts and brokerage firms in France.

StarMine, a leading provider of objective ratings of sell-side securities analysts, measures the performance of analysts based on the industry excess returns of their buy/sell recommendations and the accuracy of their earnings estimates. The 2015 awards recognise the sell-side analysts who have shown outstanding performance either as stock pickers based on the calendar year of 2014, and/or earnings estimators on the fiscal period that reported between April 1, 2014 and March 31, 2015.

Raj Shah, head of StarMine sell-side research at Thomson Reuters, added, “With sell-side research seeing change, research departments have been forced to make tough decisions on which stocks and sectors to cover, driving them to rethink not only the size of their departments but their research model. Analysts had to be responsive to the changes in the sorts of research and analysis requested by money managers. Winning analysts were those that did well in unraveling emerging trends, articulating the investment case and identifying the opportunity for their clients to make money. Congratulations to all of this year’s ranked analysts.”

Analysts are awarded prizes in three main categories: stock recommendation performance relative to specific industry benchmarks (“Stock Pickers”), accuracy in forecasting earnings as compared with peers (“Earnings Estimators”) and brokerage firms whose analysts win the most awards (“Most Award-Winning Brokers”).

The winners of the Thomson Reuters StarMine Analysts Awards 2015 France are:

Most Award-Winning Brokers

Rank

Broker

1

CM-CIC Securities (ESN Partnership)

2

Oddo Securities

3

Natixis – Equity Markets

 

Overall Stock Picker

Rank

Analyst

Broker

1

Arsène Guekam

CM-CIC Securities (ESN Partnership)

 

Overall Earnings Estimator

Rank

Analyst

Broker

1

Jean-Michel Köster

CM-CIC Securities (ESN Partnership)

 

Industry Stock Pickers

Rank

Industry

Analyst

Broker

1

Automobiles

Georges Dieng; Michael Foundoukidis; Kathleen Gailliot

Natixis – Equity Markets

1

Construction

Gaëtan Dupont

AlphaValue

1

Financial Services

Pierre-Loup Etienne

AlphaValue

1

Food & Beverages

Francis Prêtre

CM-CIC Securities (ESN Partnership)

1

Health Care

Stéphane Sumar

Natixis – Equity Markets

1

Hotels & Leisure

Marie-Line Fort

SG Securities

1

Machinery & Materials

Denise Bouchet

Gilbert Dupont

1

Media

Emmanuel Chevalier; Eric Ravary

CM-CIC Securities (ESN Partnership)

1

Retail & Consumer Products

Marie-Line Fort

SG Securities

1

Software & IT

Harold De Decker

Oddo Securities

1

Utilities

Louis Boujard

BPI

 

Industry Earnings Estimators:

Rank

Industry

Analyst

Broker

1

Aerospace & Defense

Christophe Menard

Kepler Cheuvreux

1

Automobiles

Gaetan Toulemonde

Deutsche Bank

1

Construction

Virginie Rousseau

Oddo Securities

1

Financial Services

Boudewijn Schoon

Kempen & Co

1

Food & Beverages

Laurence Hofmann

Oddo Securities

1

Media

Olivier Moral

HSBC Global Research

1

Retail & Consumer Products

Virginie Blin

AlphaValue

1

Utilities

Philippe Ourpatian

Natixis – Equity Markets

 

Please click here for the complete winners’ list, including industry sector winners, and the awards methodology.

About The Thomson Reuters StarMine Analyst Awards

Thomson Reuters StarMine is globally recognized as the gold standard in objective measurement of sell-side analyst performance. The awards recognize the world's top individual sell-side analysts and firms, and they can also be used by buy-side firms to identify the leading analysts at sell-side firms. The Thomson Reuters StarMine Analyst Awards measure the performance of sell-side analysts based on the returns of their buy and sell recommendations relative to industry benchmarks; and the accuracy of their earnings estimates in 16 regions across the globe. For the past 14 years, Thomson Reuters StarMine has partnered with some of the world’s most respected financial news outlets to publish the names of the winning analysts to give them the exposure and recognition they deserve. We also utilise internal press releases that are distributed to external business and financial desks. For more information on StarMine, click here.

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