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Sentieo’s overarching mission is to augment human decision-making through the application of the latest technologies. We are proud to demonstrate this with our most recent improvement to the platform: Sentieo Continues to Lead In Search Tech with Relevance Search Clients already love our smart Document Search, which offers: tens of millions of documents, searchable across…
Globalization and the information age have fundamentally changed corporate competitive intelligence. Not only do you have more information to process than ever before, but you also have to actively monitor developments outside of your field. So how do you stay on top of everything that is happening with your clients, suppliers and competitors? How can you surface relevant, meaningful information faster? CI professionals…
Once earnings season winds down, equity analysts start thinking about investment bank conferences and upcoming meetings with management. While the largest concentration of conferences happens in July and September, conference season happens year-round, so we thought now would be a good time to share our guide. As conference season begins, you’ve got a lot on your mind. You…
Every year, thousands of pages of earnings call transcripts are generated and analyzed by equity analysts for signals about how individual companies — and the market — will perform. Our 2018 Word On The Street report demonstrates how Sentieo’s Document Search and Transcript Sentiment tools make that data more accessible to researchers. How It Works We used Sentieo’s natural…
After a tumultuous end to 2018, many Sentieo clients and friends have asked us for a shopping list of attractive stocks for 2019. As the only financial data platform that combines traditional financial data with alternative data, Sentieo is uniquely positioned to identify stocks that had positive Q4 topline performances which should translate into stock…
A major change in lease accounting reporting for public companies is coming up in 2019 (for fiscal years starting after December 15, 2018, to be precise). In essence, leases will be recorded on the balance sheet, resulting in an increase in both assets and liabilities. The change enhances the comparability of balance sheets between companies…
One of the most fundamental questions in financial analysis is understanding business seasonality. Seasonality is not always a yes-or-no question, but rather a continuum: some business are distinctly seasonal, and some less so. We all “know” that most tax preparation happens at a certain time of the year, while retail stocks vary quite a bit….
One of the most substantial recent changes in public company accounting is ASC 606: Revenues from Contracts with Customers. The changes affect a wide range of public filers, from SaaS companies to real estate managers, to fast food franchisors. This post will focus on what analysts can do to efficiently see what has changed in…
We recently introduced an enhancement to our document markup functionality: Sentieo Capture. Within documents in Sentieo, you’ve had the ability to highlight, annotate, and tag your colleagues within important passages of text. Oftentimes, you’ve also come across important graphics such as charts or tables that you may have wanted to collect and save. With Sentieo…
Not all contractual obligations that result in cash outflows are listed in a company’s balance sheet. Looking purely at debt figures leaves an incomplete picture of future funding needs. In this blog post, we will find and visualize these liabilities in several examples across industries. While most analysts are very familiar with common items like…
Chances are that you’ve thought about starting your own hedge fund. Perhaps you’ve felt an entrepreneurial pull, have an investment strategy in mind, or know a team of people with a similar goal. Below, we’ve compiled a list of some of the best guides we’ve found online. Resources: Business Insider Investment Law Group Grant Thornton…
Do you ever feel like Pumpkin Spice season seems to start earlier and earlier? Well, it’s true. It’s also bigger than ever — at least in Search. Sentieo’s Mosaic pulled ten years of “pumpkin spice” search data, and we see some clear trends. Pumpkin spice season was typically off to a slow start, building up…
