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Mr. John A. Howard, ASA is a website-backed, unclaimed FAIR profile for Raleigh, source checked 2026-05-28, with Equity Research Services, Inc. listed as the business name. FAIR lists Business Valuation and ASA in the profile name or specialty fields, but no service category, formal-use routing signal, fee language, USPAP education detail, or claimed profile control. The listed equityresearch.com source currently resolves to a minimal consent-style page rather than a usable practice description, so direct confirmation is important. A High Rock Partners article identifies John "Buddy" Howard as running Equity Research Services Inc., describes that firm as providing investor research for publicly held financial companies, and says Howard previously worked at Carolina Securities Inc., a Raleigh brokerage firm. The same article places Howard in a High Rock context involving business sales, growth and exit strategies, leadership transitions, and strategic or financial advisory services. Treat this as a business-valuation, investor-research, or financial-advisory lead, not an antique, furniture, art, jewelry, estate-contents, household personal-property, or estate-sale appraisal lead.
Source-backed fit is clearest for business valuation, investor research, financial advisory, valuation and investor-relations contexts, business-sale or ownership-transition work, and financial-company research. Current evidence does not support furniture, antiques, estate contents, fine art, jewelry, machinery and equipment, or household personal-property appraisal routing.
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