BBY "Financials Team" is NUMBER ONE - Analyst Performance Highlights (Jan. 2012)
We ended last year with some terrific news on the research front, with Industrials sector awards won by John Welsh. We start the 2012 calendar year with some more excellent performances that warrant mention.
The BBY Financials team of Brett Le Mesurier, Anthony Vogel and Azib Khan have come FIRST in the 2011 calendar year when compared to their peer universe (19 firms) in the "Broker Rankings by Sector (Recommendations)" of the StarMine performance reports (January 2012).
The peer universe include major competitor firms from the insto. and private client businesses; inc. Macquarie, Bells, CBA, Linwar, Patersons, Wilsons, UBS, JPMorgan, Citi and CLSA to name a few.
The Financials team have fared particularly well in being pretty much the lone voice in the Aussie market calling insurance giant QBE an "Underperform". Other brokers have at times placed "holds" on the stock, but we have been talking to clients to get out of the stock for quite a while now.
Brett and Anthony Vogel have had an "Underperform" on the stock from April 18, 2011 when the stock was $18.78. It's now less than $11.40.


