She’s Jamie Dimon’s better half in the rough-and-tumble world of picking stocks.
Noelle Grainger, who heads JPMorgan Chase’s superstar team of analysts, will be crowned Wall Street’s best analyst today, according to a new survey.
It comes at a good time, too, just a day ahead of her boss’s face-to-face presentation to legions of analysts and investors clamoring for more detail on the firm’s costly wrong-way bets on complex derivatives trades.
When it involves digging up valuable research on equities, however, JPMorgan wins hands down, according to the annual ranking by Greenwich Associates, which will be published in Bloomberg Markets latest issue, on newsstands today.
Grainger beat out about 1,000 top research analysts for the coveted award, which is based on the number of reliable picks and pans she and her team delivered to hundreds of investors.
Among her scores of research pros, a total of eight were ranked No. 1 among 35 industry sectors, including Ken Worthington, who was rated as the top analyst for brokerages.
Another eight in Grainger’s crew won No. 2 rankings in their respective industries.
Rated as Wall Street’s second-best analyst overall was Bank of America’s Brett Hodess, followed by Morgan Stanley’s head of research, Stephen Penwell, in third place.
Grainger, 41, joined JPMorgan in 1993, after graduation from Boston College with a degree in marketing. She began as a junior analyst for footwear and apparel firms and rose quickly through the ranks.
Currently she’s a managing director.
Her office said she was out of the country on business and couldn’t be reached.
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