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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…
What is Pinterest? Pinterest is a visual discovery and bookmarking tool. It has created a niche on its own: we see it alongside Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and LinkedIn, in terms of having created a unique product with social aspects. Pinterest allows users to collect and save images within categorized boards, similar to the way that…
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…
This article was originally published in Forbes Our third article on the Fed leverages third-party political trend data as well as powerful Sentieo opinion mining to break down past speeches from top contenders for the Fed Chair. We discuss possible 2018 scenarios and delve deeper into the surprising results we come across. Brush up on the previous…
This article was originally published in Forbes Our second investigation of the Fed’s sentiment discusses the impact Chairwoman Yellen has had on the Federal Reserve since her rise to the Chair in 2014. We created and utilized our ‘FedSpeak’ lexicon to delve into the correlation between the Fed’s intentions and Yellen’s speeches before colleagues, Congress, and the press. Read the previous…
This article was originally published in Forbes This piece kicks off our new series on the analysis of the Federal Reserve using Sentieo’s natural language processing power and flexible Doc Search technology. We will focus on bringing interesting ideas and surprising revelations derived from thousands of public federal reserve documents. Join us as we scrutinize meetings,…
This article was originally posted on Forbes. No other company has done a better job of attracting constant media attention than Amazon ($AMZN). With shares hovering around $1,000 per share, the retail-tech giant now stands as one of the four largest companies in the S&P 500 with a nearly $500 billion market cap. That represents a more…
This article was originally posted on Forbes. The last three years have been dismal for fundamental long/short managers, and stock picking at large. However, at Sentieo, our analysis shows that we are currently in the best environment since before the 2008 crash for picking stocks. Now, that isn’t to say that this is the best time…
With the S&P up 7% year to date, is it time to sell in May and go away? It’s an old Wall Street adage, and the data appear to bear it out. Since 1950, the S&P has returned 3.4% on average for the year up to April, while returns from June to October have averaged…
In Canada, a substantial issuer bid (SIB) is the formal term for a tender offer to repurchase shares. SIBs can be used to buy back an unusually large amount of shares beyond what’s allowed with a typical NCIB buyback program (Normal Course Issuer Bid). Tender offers may be a sign of improving corporate governance or savvy management taking advantage…
Our CEO, Alap Shah, wrote a guest article that appeared in HedgeWeek this morning on the topic of consumer-grade note-taking apps, and why they don’t work for equity analysts*. Investment analysts, by and large, are a pretty smart group. If they can find a better way to do their job, they will. So it’s no…
We analyzed over 9 million financial documents, covering more than 10,000 companies across the globe, for mentions of the self-driving car theme. We found that interest in self-driving cars has grown 8.5x in the past two years, but suspect that there is much more interest to come. Predictably, car and technology vendors were earliest in bracing for the technology’s impact, but…
