Information About Zacks

An Industry Leader
When Zacks Investment Research was established in 1978, we set a goal to provide the investment community with the best estimate and fundamental data available, delivered and organized in the most useful format. Since then - with the design of a new generation of stock selection models - we have become the recognized source for portfolio managers who want to use estimate revisions and EPS surprises to maximize their returns. An outgrowth of this process was the building of the Zacks Research System, which now sets a new industry standard for power and value. Evidence of the value of our products is found in our client list - most major institutional investors rely on Zacks information. We are also the choice of the Wall Street Journal for EPS surprises, All-Star Analyst Rankings and Brokerage Focus List portfolio performance. Zacks' commitment to providing timely, accurate estimates and reported earnings data revolutionized the way the finance industry uses this information in modeling processes. Today, with our Research Evaluation Service, we are making a similar impact on the manner in which money managers view sell side equity research.

Since 1996, Zacks has been at the forefront of the information revolution transforming Wall Street. Giving individual investors access to research information previously available only to institutional investors, Zacks' range of Internet services has dominated the field of analyst earnings estimates and recommendations. Hundreds of sites such as Yahoo, CNNfn, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Online use Zacks data to keep their users ahead of the market

A Full Range of Services
Zacks is a full service quantitative research firm, offering a suite of products designed to provide analysts, corporate investors, brokers, and individual investors with the tools they need to optimize their equity decision making processes. From data feeds to equity models to research software to Internet applications, every Zacks product has a payback period measured in months - helping improve performance, save time and more effectively allocate resources.

Professional Biographies

Leonard Zacks, President
Leonard Zacks has been President of Zacks Investment Research, Inc. since 1978. Prior to founding ZIR in 1978, Leonard Zacks was responsible for quantitative product development at A.G. Becker, Chicago, IL, was an associate with McKinsey and Company, New York, and was an analyst at Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California. Leonard holds a Ph..D from MIT, 1969.