Analyst Profile
John D. Staszak, CFA
Securities Analyst: Consumer Goods and Staples
John’s specialties at Argus include the gaming, hotel and restaurant groups within the Consumer Discretionary sector. John holds an MBA from the University of Texas and a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. In the financial services industry, he has worked as an analyst and consultant for companies such as Standard & Poor’s, the Bank of New York, Harris Nesbitt Gerard and Merrill Lynch. John is a CFA charterholder. Forbes magazine named John the second best stock picker among restaurant analysts in 2006. He was also ranked the second best analyst covering the restaurant sector by the Wall Street Journal in 2007, a year in which a Financial Times/StarMine survey also ranked John that way. In 2008, the Journal named John an award winner again, with a third best designation among hotel industry analysts and a fifth best designation among restaurant analysts.
