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The coronavirus outbreak has injected extreme volatility into the financial markets, with the markets seeing their largest moves since 1987. As investors, we can barely model out our base case scenarios given the wide ranges of possible outcomes. We look to data to help drive our understanding of this outbreak and its potential for further…
Quarantine fears crush retailers, what is on the other side? STAY GPS XRT, finding conservatively financed FCF generators The selloff in the markets continues unabated: President Trump’s address last night and the Fed liquidity actions today did little to reassure the markets as Thursday ended as the worst day for the Dow since 1987. Event…
With the realization that countries across the globe need to move towards large-scale containment, including shutdowns and restrictions on gatherings and movement, we’ve seen massive weakness in restaurant stocks. A number of these stocks were down in the double-digits only a day after we told the WSJ yesterday that the industry needed to take steps to “prevent…
We’ve received several requests for analysis on the impact of coronavirus on the market. To help you keep on top of the latest news and trends, over the next few days we will be sending selected coronavirus updates. We also hosted a webinar yesterday covering how to navigate the market impact of coronavirus with actionable…
As the pandemic situation unfolds exponentially, we started looking at what the CEOs specifically are saying in transcripts by using our popular in-transcript, said-by-the-CEO search and ML-based keyword suggestions.
Last week we wrote about using Sentieo to stay on top of fast-moving developments and the impact on the auto industry. With the big market selloff on Monday, February 24, 2020, we looked for companies that are actually up for the day to get clues as to what sectors might be outperforming the likely volatile…
For investors in Consumer Discretionary and corporates operating in that space (retailers, consumer products), monitoring various sources of alternative data is of paramount importance. Search trends (and their year-over-year change), Twitter mentions (with year-over-year changes), web traffic (also with year-over-year changes) alone or together can provide important, real time insights during this critical holiday shopping…
Over the last few years, we have watched the not-so-gradual evolution of investment marketing, from the rise of indexing and quantitative strategies to an explosion of alternative data and fee compression. The need to “research different” to maintain your edge is greater today than ever before. But despite the changes, there remains one major activity…
Why We Wrote This Guide With companies releasing a multitude of documents every hour of the day during earnings season, getting insights quickly can feel like an impossible task. The hundreds of companies that analysts track each produce hundreds of data points, documents, and news — any of which could inform a change in corporate…
About a year ago, we wrote a popular blog post on pumpkin spice season. Based on Twitter data and search trends, we could see that pumpkin spice season had started earlier than ever, and was bigger than ever. Today, we declare that pumpkin spice is over, using the same data sets. Looking at the stacked…
