Who We Are: Founded in 1977, Zacks Investment Research is an entrepreneurial company with one main objective . . . to be the quintessential source of critical investment research that directly influences future stock prices.

By combining an extensive database with diligent focus and thought, Zacks has attained its goal as the established benchmark of the financial research industry. And, because Zacks understands and correctly handles the unique problems associated with timely delivery of comprehensive investment research, we have become the most widely used investment research service in the world.

What is Zacks Investment Research: For almost twenty years, Zacks has been providing necessary research to everyone from institutional to individual investors. Zacks maintains specified databases of earnings estimates, stock recommendations, and earnings surprises in addition to hundreds of other databases pertaining to corporate stock issues.

Zacks Investment Research is essentially comprised of four departments. The Research Department compiles, processes and analyzes all incoming equity investment data from over 230 brokerage firms and 3,000 analysts. This is the forefront stage of product and service development and maintenance for Zacks. The Investor Relations Department maintains and coordinates all interactions between Zacks and our contributing sources in addition to offering those public companies with marketable equities an entire suite of products and services. The Institutional Department targets professional money managers and serves as the direct communication link between Zacks and the institutional investment community. The Retail Department caters a wide variety of products and services to both investment brokers and the individual investor in the form of printed materials, fax-alert services, software products, and Internet and e-mail services.