July 24, 20171Comments

Open Letter To The Department of Labor And SEC: Markets Deserve Clarification On The Duty Of Care

We welcome the SEC’s request for comment on the fiduciary rule and hope to see both the SEC and DoL work together to refine the fiduciary rule in a way that improves access to high-quality advice for all investors.

by Sam McBride

July 6, 20170Comments

5 Unappreciated Stocks With High ROICs

In order to find value, it’s time to get back to the basics of reading footnotes and focusing on economic earnings and return on invested capital (ROIC), the true drivers of valuation.

by Sam McBride

June 27, 20170Comments

Value Investing Is Not Dead, But It Is Harder

We think today’s market is the best in many years for value investors, the real value investors, that is. The real value investors analyze footnotes and balance sheets in addition to income statements.

by Sam McBride

June 22, 20170Comments

Bad ROIC Drives Bad Valuation

GAAP-Based ROIC has a significantly weaker link to valuation than our ROIC calculation, which uses our Robo-Analyst technology to make adjustments from rigorous analysis of footnotes and the MD&A.

by Sam McBride

June 19, 20170Comments

Winner & Losers from Amazon’s Proposed Purchase of Whole Foods

While this deal certainly could be good for AMZN, we believe the market may be ignoring some of Whole Foods Market’s off-balance sheet liabilities that make this acquisition more expensive than it appears.

by Sam McBride

June 14, 20170Comments

The Fed Can’t Wish Inflation Into Existence

Even with inflation running below target, the Fed chose to raise interest rates again. The Fed’s influence is overstated, but it’s still troubling that major policymakers are acting on such an outdated view of the economy.

by Sam McBride

June 12, 20171Comments

Selling Shovels In A Gold Rush: Buy This Sector To Profit From The Internet Of Things

As the Internet grows more engrained in everyday life, a new “gold rush” presents an excellent opportunity. In this special report, we provide four stocks that we think will be tech winners and one stock to avoid.

by Sam McBride

June 1, 20170Comments

Blind Spot Alert: Fiduciary Duty of Care

We think few advisors will fund much success if they do not embrace fiduciary levels of service. However, we think few in the business are prepared to fulfill the Duty of Care.

by Sam McBride

May 24, 20170Comments

DOL Can’t Hold Back The Fiduciary Tide

After months of delay, the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule will finally go into effect on June 9. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta confirmed the rule’s implementation on Monday in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.

by Sam McBride

May 17, 20170Comments

Crossing the Chasm 2.0: Rise of the Robo-Analyst

In the same way online trading disrupted the distribution of investment advice, big-data analytics and machine learning will disrupt how financial advice and the research behind it is created.

by Sam McBride

May 4, 20172Comments

The Earnings Recovery Is A Sham

Our analysis of the latest 10-K filings for the 2,600 largest and most actively-traded companies shows that the much-hyped end to the earnings recession is an accounting illusion.

by Sam McBride

April 19, 20170Comments

10-K Filing Season Recap

During filing season, our robo-analyst technology read through 2,139 10-K (or international equivalent) filings and collected 49,862 data points. Our analyst team used this data to make 49,862 adjustments with a dollar value of $16.1 trillion.

by Sam McBride

April 3, 20170Comments

Diligence Will Matter More Than Ever In 2017

Uncertainty defined 2016. In the midst of all the uncertainty, investors grew more and more aware of the need for real diligence. Market conditions, changing investor behavior, and new technologies all come together to make diligent research matter more than ever.

by Sam McBride

March 20, 20170Comments

Filing Season Finds: Week Of March 13–17

Last week, our analysts parsed 350 filings and collected 43,532 data points. Senior Analyst Lindsay Bohannon identified two significant hidden items that artificially depressed CODI’s reported GAAP net income in 2016.

by Sam McBride

March 17, 20170Comments

Filing Season Finds: Friday, March 17

From yesterday’s research, analysts parsed 64 10-K filings and collected 8,054 data points. In total, they made 1,318 forensic accounting adjustments with a dollar value of $55 billion. Analyst Allen L. Jackson found an unusual item yesterday in Alcoa’s (AA) 10-K.

by Sam McBride

March 16, 20170Comments

Filing Season Finds: Thursday, March 16

From yesterday’s research, analysts parsed 48 10-K filings and collected 6,034 data points. In total, they made 964 forensic accounting adjustments with a dollar value of $135 billion. Analyst Lindsay Bohannon found an unusual item yesterday in OraSure Technologies’ (OSUR) 10-K.

by Sam McBride

March 15, 20170Comments

Filing Season Finds: Wednesday, March 15

From yesterday’s research, analysts parsed 51 10-K filings and collected 6,534 data points. In total, they made 1,064 forensic accounting adjustments with a dollar value of $37 billion. Analyst Lindsay Bohannon found an unusual item yesterday in Pzena Investment Management’s (PZN) 10-K.

by Sam McBride

March 15, 20170Comments

Fed Watching Can Be A Costly Distraction

Investors agonizing over the Fed should focus their efforts elsewhere. Instead of guessing where interest rates will go, read some of the thousands of annual 10-K reports that have come out in the past month.

by Sam McBride

March 14, 20170Comments

Filing Season Finds: Tuesday, March 14

From yesterday’s research, analysts parsed 94 10-K filings and collected 11,843 data points. In total, they made 1,961 forensic accounting adjustments with a dollar value of $79 billion. Analyst Cody Fincher found an unusual item yesterday in Acacia Research Corporation’s (ACTG) 10-K.

by Sam McBride

March 10, 20170Comments

Filing Season Finds: Friday, March 10

From yesterday’s research, analysts parsed 42 10-K filings and collected 5,533 data points. In total they made 965 forensic accounting adjustments with a dollar value of $108 billion. Analyst Alec Estrada found an unusual item yesterday in Ascent Capital Group’s (ASCMA) 10-K.

by Sam McBride

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