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equity research
4 stories tagged “equity research”, each from official Korean data with its source and timestamp.
An Analyst 'Leaderboard' We Called Ranked Turned Out to Be Alphabetical
We published an article calling an analyst Korea's '#1-ranked' by score. The rank field we read was sorting 74 names alphabetically, not by performance. We're correcting it and showing how we caught it.
Korea's #1-ranked stock analyst has a stated 0 percent accuracy score
Among 74 ranked analysts on a Korean brokerage-research leaderboard, 27 — more than a third, including the top-ranked name — carry a 0 percent accuracy figure. Rank score and accuracy correlate only loosely (r=0.72).
Korean analysts didn't just stop saying sell. They stopped saying hold.
Across 55,580 rated broker reports since 2014, the neutral rating has fallen from 9.7% to 3.3% of all calls. The collapse happened in two steps, in 2018 and 2020, and it shows up inside individual firms — not just in the market average.
Korean brokerages posted 26,051 stock reports in three years. Twenty-six said sell.
A complete census of every company report published to Korea's most-read retail research board finds sell ratings at 0.114 percent — one for every 838 buys. Thirteen of the twenty firms never issued a single one.