The 10 best stock pickers that you should have listened to in 2018

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• Wall Street's sell-side analysts publish piles of bullish and bearish recommendations every day.
• TipRanks, a website that tracks and ranks analyst recommendations, collected notes from thousands of analysts and found the 10 best stock pickers of 2018.
• TipRanks graded analysts by calculating their success rates and the average return of their calls.

Wall Street's sell-side analysts publish piles of recommendations on which stocks to buy, sell, or hold. But not all of those calls turned out to be worth listening to.

TipRanks, a website that tracks and ranks analyst recommendations, published a list of stock pickers who had the most success last year.

To compile the list, TipRanks collected notes from over 5,000 analysts in 2018, calculated the ratio of calls that generated positive returns in the following quarter relative to all ratings that were given, and examined the average performance of their recommendations.

Here is TipRanks' list of stock pickers, in ascending order of their calls' average return rate.