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In our “Trending Foods” series of blog posts, we analyzed interesting trends in the food industry, such as the increasing popularity of protein-rich grains, the avocado craze, and the changing customer habits that are fueling new consumption patterns, such as the brunch and street food phenomenon. In this post, we are going to analyze a…
Last week, we took a close look at the food industry, which certainly follows trends and changing consumption habits that can ultimately greatly affect the performance of various companies. Using Sentieo, we were able to take a look at data and trends regarding protein-rich grains like quinoa, hemp, and sorghum. This week, we’ll examine how the…
Like other segments of the consumer sector, the food industry follows trends and changing consumption habits that can benefit one company over another. Particularly in the recent years, we have seen changing attitudes towards health, community and the environment, which have affected consumption habits and translated into the growing popularity of specific foods and drinks….
Today we published our quarterly Sentiment Analysis Report, which summarizes last quarter’s top keyword searches and provides detailed sentiment analysis across all industries. We used Sentieo’s Transcript Sentiment Analysis feature to analyze earnings call transcripts and discover which topics companies discussed the most last quarter, versus the same quarter in 2017. We also compared the…
Dine Brands ($DIN), which owns IHOP and Applebee’s, is up 18% since the start of this month. You might have heard about their headline-making name change from IHOP (International House of Pancakes) to IHOB (International House of Burgers). See their tweet announcing the change below: So did this branding change cause Dine Brands’ stock price…
What CEOs say — or don’t say — on a transcript can mean a lot. A recent study by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business revealed the following about CEO activity on calls: [Research] indicates that the chief executives who spoke more — presumably because they were more knowledgeable — also tended to…
As 10Ks get longer and more complex, it gets harder and harder to find the material financial information within them. In fact, the average number of pages in a 10K has grown almost 34% over the past 8 years. We used Sentieo data to create the graph that shows this increase below. The HBS finance…
You’ve probably been hearing a lot about the GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation, over the past few months. If you haven’t, it’s very likely you have at least been receiving a few emails about privacy policy updates from the software products that you use. If you’ve been researching GDPR, you may have even noticed that…
On Monday, the Supreme Court overturned PASPA (the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act that effectively banned commercial sports betting in most states), opening the door to legalizing the estimated $150 billion in illegal wagers on professional and amateur sports that Americans make every year. (New York Times) We immediately jumped into Sentieo to see how various companies were…
The Dropbox IPO on March 23 was big news, as the market welcomed the newcomer with a 35% surge on its first day of trading. The stock has been hovering around $30 ever since then, almost double the initial IPO range of $16-18, making it one of the most valuable publicly-traded enterprise SaaS companies. With…
Tesla’s earnings call yesterday was anything but boring, as Elon Musk very roughly dismissed analyst questions. We jumped into Sentieo to quickly find the Tesla transcript and dig into the details. A.M. Sacconaghi, Senior Analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., asked Musk about gross margin end of year targets with regard to the Tesla…
Note: The content of this post references an opinion and is for information purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice. With earnings season continuing this week, the Sentieo team has been making their predictions about earnings using alternative data from Sentieo Mosaic. Last earnings…
