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Subsequent to our Capital Allocation Trends Webinar “Cash Hoarding During The Time of Love and COVID,” we’re providing updated and incremental insights to the total dollars hoarded. We’ve added US Small Cap companies (Sub $1bn mkt cap but over $100mm excluding financials, real estate and utilities) to our dataset. The COVID dollar impact across our…
In this post, we will highlight several COVID-monitoring dashboards that we like. As many of you know, we released a sizable COVID monitoring dashboard for clients, combining numerous data sets, including financial, alternative and doc search data (blog and webinar). We surfaced some of the charts and some of the search results in a public…
In our Coronavirus Market Impact Newsletters, we’ve explored what global public companies are doing in regards to capital allocation during a period of volatility unseen since 2008 – 2009. We’ve specifically explored the impact across: Credit: Drawing down on credit facilities or raising incremental capital without a clear use of proceeds Dividend policy: Dividend suspensions…
The Federal Reserve has moved decisively in the last few weeks, rolling out a number of new programs aimed at stabilizing the fixed income markets, and, potentially, preventing the epidemic shutdowns from turning into a full-blown credit crisis. As a side note, recently we have enjoyed the in-depth analyses of the Fed moves on this…
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…
Today, we continue our coronavirus market impact series with a focus on the outbreak’s effect on universities. University campus closures are affecting stocks as high-profile schools move to online instruction (we covered the early move to “work from home” stocks on our blog a few weeks ago). Today we saw the market being somewhat slow to react…
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…
Sentieo’s industry-leading Document Search enables users’ deep research through sophisticated applications of artificial intelligence (machine learning and natural language processing) applied to corporate, broker research, and internal documents. But there is another aspect of the Doc Search functionality: staying on top of fast-moving events through both comprehensive search, and seamless workflow. Using recent coronavirus developments…
About Sentieo Document Search Clients love Sentieo’s industry-leading Document Search for its depth, precision, and workflow integration. Users save hours with the ability to search across all companies, watchlists, individual entities, or by excluding tickers from searches. Easy document specification with our IN: function covers the most common document types. (For example, search just 10-Ks…
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…
