Bruce Harting Barclays Capital
The buy side says: “Bruce Harting has clear, unbiased views.”
Bruce Harting, 52, finishes in first place for a sixth consecutive year. The Barclays Capital analyst provides “a valuable perspective born of his many years’ experience,” affirms one loyalist. In August 2009, Harting upgraded American Express Co. from equal weight, where it had been since October 2007, to overweight, at $32.07, projecting that the New York–based credit card issuer’s high delinquency rate had peaked. He was right, and by late August 2010, Amex shares had surged 24.3 percent, to $39.87, and outperformed the sector by 9.1 percentage points.
