A 2013 report by the Central Bank of Ireland noted the likelihood and possible risks of future mergers among firms.
In 1807, Robert Goodbody married into the Pim family, who had investments in shipping, insurance, banking, mining, and railways.
The Pim family, however, did not like the idea of their daughter marrying a lawyer, so, Goodbody embarked on a career in stockbroking.
[7] On 13 November 1874, Goodbody attended a meeting of the Dublin Stock Exchange, and his license to start his business was approved.
[7] Jonathan retired from Goodbody & Webb in 1928, being succeeded by his son, Denis, along with his cousin, Jack Freeman.
In 1990, the company changed names yet again, this time to Goodbody Stockbrokers, following a purchase by AIB Capital Markets.
[12][13] Allied Irish Banks were likely to have had to indemnify Fexco, the new majority owners of Goodbody Stockbrokers, against any legal action arising from the firm's boom-time trading.
[15] The broker was ridiculed publicly in 2007 after it told its clients to buy an American pharma stock at $3.09 and gave it a price target of $5.70.
[16] In May 2010 the EU began investigating claims that AIB misused state aid by attaching conditions to loan deals, unfairly affecting competition in the Irish stockbroking market but benefiting Goodbody.
[18] In the 2011 Starmine Awards, the Food and Beverage Analyst Liam Igoe, of Goodbody, was ranked sixth in the Top 10 Earnings Estimators in Europe.