Stephen Maresca Morgan Stanley The buy side says: “Stephen provides access to the broadest range of industry observers and participants.”
Stephen Maresca “does great work on the midstream sector and in finding value in restructuring opportunities,” one buy-sider attests. The 36-year-old Morgan Stanley analyst, who climbs the final rung to make his debut at No. 1, highlighted his overweight rating on Tulsa, Oklahoma–based Williams Partners in September 2010. Maresca was convinced that the market didn’t appreciate the company’s organic growth profile and exposure to increasing demand for natural-gas liquids. The stock bolted 33.6 percent, from $40.54 to $54.18, and surged past the Standard & Poor’s MLP index by 26 percentage points, through August. Maresca joined Morgan Stanley in 2008 from UBS, where he covered energy companies; he earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Rhode Island’s Providence College in 1997.
