(For Bank of America coverage, corrects spelling of Harralson's first name to Jefferson from Jeffers)
Sept 9 (Reuters) - Wall Street bank analysts roundly failed to call the collapse of Lehman Brothers a year ago and few predicted the rally earlier this year.
Thomson Reuters StarMine ranks analysts by calculating their ability to generate profit with their picks on individual stocks versus the market.
Only 45 percent of bank analysts beat the market with their recommendations in 2008 and this has barely improved this year, with just 46 percent of analysts so far doing better than the market, according to StarMine.
The analysts are graded against either a commercial banks index -- including Bank of America Corpand JPMorgan Chase & Co , for example -- or a capital markets index that includes Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley , StarMine said.
These are the best-performing analysts covering Goldman Sachs Group, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Citigroup in 2008 and so far this year:
Top Analysts for Goldman Sachs in 2008
1.Guy Moszkowski, Bank of America Securities-Merrill Lynch
2.Richard Bove, Ladenburg Thalmann
3.Matthew Czepliewicz, HSBC
4.Roger Freeman, Barclays Capital
5.Brad Hintz, Sanford C. Bernstein
Top Analysts for Goldman Sachs in 2009
1.Mark Lane, William Blair & Company
2.Jeffery Harte, Sandler O'Neill & Partners
3.Richard Bove, Rochdale Securities
4.Brad Hintz, Sanford C. Bernstein
5.James Mitchell, Buckingham Research
Top Analysts for Morgan Stanley in 2008
1.Roger Freeman, Barclays Capital
2.Guy Moszkowski, Bank of America Securities-Merrill Lynch
3.Mark Lane, William Blair & Company
4.Glenn Schorr, UBS
5.David Trone, Fox-Pitt Cochrane Caronia
Top Analysts for Morgan Stanley in 2009
1.Guy Moszkowski, Bank fo America Securities-Merrill Lynch
2.Matthew Czepliewicz, HSBC
3.Brad Hintz, Sanford C. Bernstein
4.Jeffery Harte, Sandler O'Neill
5.James Mitchell, Buckingham Research
Top Analysts for Bank of America Corp in 2008
1.Jefferson Harralson, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
2.Richard Staite, Atlantic Equities
3.Betsy Graseck, Morgan Stanley
4.Jason Goldberg, Barclays Capital
5.Todd Hagerman, Credit Suisse
Top Analysts for Bank of America Corp in 2009
1.Richard Staite, Atlantic Equities
2.Richard Bove, Rochdale Securities
3.Jefferson Harralson, Keefe Bruyette & Woods
4.Jason Goldberg, Barclays Capital
5.Joe Morford, RBC Capital Markets
Top Analysts for Citigroup in 2008
1.Guy Moszkowski, BAS-ML
2.William Tanona, Goldman Sachs*
3.Meredith Whitney, Oppenheimer
4.Betsy Graseck, Morgan Stanley
5.Jeffery Harte, Sandler O'Neill
Top Analysts for Citigroup in 2009
1.Guy Moszkowski, BAS-ML
2.Meredith Whitney, Meredith Whitney Advisory
3.David Ritter, Argus Research Company
4.Betsy Graseck, Morgan Stanley
5.John McDonald, Sanford C Bernstein
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(Reporting by Elinor Comlay, editing by Matthew Lewis)
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