How are stock anyalysts selected and how influential are they to the price of a share in a company?

Also who pays the stock analysts?





Indirectly and directly?





Does this not create suspicions that these "analysts" are bribed?





And dont say the SEC , we all know who first started overlooking that operation (Joe Kennedy one of the biggest weasels on Wall Street ever!)|||Like any job, stock analysts apply for the job generally with brokerage outfits, but also commercial and investment banks and independent research shops. The analysts are paid by the firms they work for. Are they influential. Yes, to a certain degree. But if a person has a poor track record, he/she is generally dimissed in the market place.