The 10 best stock analysts you should have listened to so far this year

Investors are bombarded with analyst ratings on stocks all the time.

And for the very active investor seeking to lock in returns, TipRanks identified the analysts that have been worth listening to so far in 2016.

They took every analyst rating that was issued between January and May 2016, and deduced how much return an investor would have earned if they followed the recommendation for three months, or until the end of the first half of 2016

TipRanks also calculated the normalized profits the analysts earned on all their rating calls.

These were most successful analysts: