Analyst Leaderboard

Bullish Whales ranks 6,976 equity analysts by a track record scored on real price outcomes — not opinion. Each analyst's calls are measured by how far the stock beat its own sector over the 12 months after the rating, then shrunk toward the population and corrected for multiple testing so the ranking reflects repeatable skill rather than a few lucky calls. As of June 11, 2026, the top-ranked analyst is Bobby Brooks of Northland Capital Markets with a BW Score of 93. The leaderboard surfaces the analysts whose ratings have most consistently beaten the market.

Sort the leaderboard by Win % (how often their calls beat the sector) or PT Hit % (how often the stock reached their price target within 12 months) to see the leaders on each measure. A rate is only published once an analyst has at least 20 scored calls, and it is shrunk toward the population rate, so a tiny lucky sample cannot top the list.

Mostly not on schedule. Across all the price targets we score, the stock reaches the analyst's target within 12 months only about 43% of the time. The best analysts on the board sustain a materially higher hit rate — which is exactly what the PT Hit % column lets you compare, analyst by analyst.

Across every scored call in our data, an analyst's rated stock beats its sector about 38% of the time over the next 12 months and reaches the analyst's price target about 43% of the time. Beating the sector is genuinely hard, so a win rate well above 38% is a strong signal — and a handful of analysts clear our statistical bar for real, repeatable skill.

Some analysts have a real, repeatable edge and many do not — telling them apart is the whole point of this leaderboard. About 28 analysts clear our skill bar (their outperformance stays significant after correcting for testing thousands of analysts at once). Follow the track record, not the rating in isolation, and treat everything here as education, not investment advice.

The BW Score is a 0–100 track-record score for an equity analyst. It is the analyst's empirical-Bayes-shrunk average 12-month sector-excess return, recentred so that 50 means they matched their stocks' sector and 100 is the field leader. It rewards skill, not luck — scores are shrunk toward the population mean and corrected for multiple testing.

Win % (batting average) is the share of an analyst's scored calls whose 12-month return beat the rated stock's sector ETF. A 60% win rate means three in five of their picks outperformed their sector. It is shrunk toward the population win rate so a tiny sample can't look elite, and is hidden until an analyst has at least 20 scored calls.

PT Hit % is the share of an analyst's price targets the stock actually reached at some point within 12 months of the call — directionally (a bullish target counts as hit if the stock traded up to it; a bearish target if it traded down to it). Prices are split-adjusted to the call-date basis. It is shrunk toward the population hit rate and hidden below 20 price targets.

An analyst is flagged Skilled when their outperformance stays statistically significant after Benjamini-Hochberg false-discovery correction (q ≤ 0.10) — i.e. the edge is very unlikely to be luck even though thousands of analysts are tested at once. Scores are also shrunk toward the population mean, so a hot streak on a few calls does not masquerade as skill.

Every analyst rating is scored on real prices: we enter at the closing price on or after the call date (no look-ahead), measure the 12-month return in excess of the stock's sector ETF, and check whether the price target was reached. Per-analyst results use empirical-Bayes shrinkage, cluster-robust standard errors and false-discovery control, so the leaderboard reflects repeatable skill rather than a single hot call.

It re-scores on a weekly schedule and as pending calls cross their 12-month mark, so it stays current as analysts issue new ratings. The "Last Rated" date shows each analyst's most recent rating in our data, and the "active in the last N" filter lets you narrow to analysts who are still issuing calls.