The buy side says: “Himanshu is as hardworking an analyst as you will find.”
Himanshu Patel, 35, of J.P. Morgan cruises to No. 1 for a fourth straight year. “He will tell you where the industry is headed in the next few years, not just the next quarter,” says one client. Patel upgraded TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. of Livonia, Michigan, in June 2009 from neutral to overweight, at $9, on improved prospects for auto production and sales opportunities for its vehicle-safety components. The stock had raced to $34.76 by late August 2010, an astonishing 286.2 percent gain that left the sector’s otherwise-impressive 55 percent advance eating its dust.
