John Staszak Analyst Performance

John's specialties at Argus include the gaming, lodging, and restaurant groups within the Consumer Discretionary sector. Prior to Argus, John worked as an analyst and consultant for several financial services firms including Standard & Poor's, the Bank of New York, Harris Nesbitt Gerard, and Merrill Lynch. Forbes magazine named John as 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 same way. In 2008, The Journal again listed John as an award winner, with a third-best designation among hotel industry analysts and a fifth-best designation among restaurant analysts. John, a CFA charterholder, earned an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.