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WeWork’s unsuccessful IPO attempt has generated a lot of media attention over the last two months. In Forbes, we ran a comparison of the disclosed related party transactions versus recent high profile IPOs. Our Head of Research was interviewed extensively at IPO Edge regarding the governance, valuation and business model considerations surrounding the offering. The…
About two weeks ago, we posted an extensive blog post going through the various alternative data indicators for retailers with “Back to School” season exposure. We specifically looked at where our alternative data composite is vs. the most optimal (or predictive) metric. In some cases, the index works better for overall revenue growth and, in…
The US IPO market continues to be very healthy, and we continue to publish our notes here on some of the more interesting companies coming to market. Today’s post focuses on SmileDirectClub (proposed ticker SDC) but also do check out our recent posts on Chewy, Slack, WeWork, Beyond Meat, and Pinterest. You might already be…
Today, we announced a new partnership with Workiva, provider of the world’s leading connected reporting and compliance platform. While both Sentieo and Workiva are excited to work together, the real value of this partnership will be to our mutual customers. At Sentieo, our vision is to accelerate the decision-making of knowledge professionals with the broadest…
Here at Sentieo, we continually invest in security and availability best practices to safeguard the valuable data stored by asset managers and Fortune 500 competitive intelligence, IR, and strategy professionals in our corporate research platform. We are pleased to announce that we have successfully completed our SOC 2 audit, conducted by A-LIGN, a leading compliance and…
Our first step to analyzing how retailers are doing during this “Back to School” season is to use our industry-leading Document Search to find out which retailers are talking about “Back to School” in the first place. If keyword mentions appear in filings or in transcripts, then we know that we should be taking a…
To find out, the Sentieo team took a look at other recent high profile IPOs to compare against what we saw in The We Company’s expansive 800+ page S-1 filing. The document also contains 198 separate tables. Inside the filing, the Company (proposed ticker: WE) spends ten pages on discussing various transactions with “related parties.”…
Berkshire’s investment in Kraft Heinz has not gone smoothly. After taking Heinz private together with private equity investor 3G in 2013, Berkshire invested additional funds in the takeover of Kraft Foods in 2015, and was ready to finance a quickly-withdrawn $143 billion offer for Unilever. Things have gone south for KHC recently. The company’s stock…
Meat alternative marketer and recent IPO Beyond Meat (Nasdaq: BYND) reported quarterly earnings a few days ago, and, concurrently, the company surprised the market with a secondary offering well ahead of the indicated 180-day IPO period (a rare occurrence in the last 10 years). The stock’s performance since its IPO has been stunning: the IPO…
In our final earnings week blog post discussing our new, machine learning-based transcript Smart Summary™, we’re taking a look at the electric car maker, Tesla. The company reported earnings and held its regular quarterly call after market hours on Wednesday, July 24, 2019. The stock dropped immediately upon the results release, and continued dropping during…
Last week, just in time for earnings season, we released Sentieo’s machine learning-based transcript Smart Summary™ feature. In short, we automated what we used to do as buyside analysts: reading through transcripts and classifying information. This week, we’ve looked at the newest transcripts from Goldman Sachs and Haliburton in detail. Yesterday, we shared an in-depth…
This week we’re showcasing our new, machine learning-based transcript Smart Summary™, an entirely new way of reading — and more importantly, summarizing — transcripts. Yesterday, we looked at Halliburton’s transcript Smart Summary™. In today’s post, we’re sharing a video that covers Whirlpool (NYSE:WHR), a “classic” industrials company. We review the earnings 8-K, discuss the positive after-market…
