In China, alternative data is still a relatively unfamiliar concept. Compared to traditional data, Alternative Data refers to data that may affect investment decisions but is difficult to obtain from traditional mainstream financial data vendor...
Highlights of this month’s tidbits include a debrief on the purported e-receipt apocalypse, a chance meeting between a data scraper and its data source, as well as some positive news from the land of TV tracking datasets.
Last week, it was announced that leading telehealth provider, Teladoc (NYSE: TDOC), observed a 33% increase in share price and a 40% increase in revenue, year to date. At Neudata, we thought it would be as good a time as any to discuss some alternative datasets that could help investors predict some key metrics of telehealth companies.
Didn’t anyone ever tell you that you shouldn’t believe everything you read? In the following intelligence piece, we consider the 21st-century crisis of fabricated content and its implications for users of alternative data. Leave your MAUs at the door and join us in the strange world of app download fraud, review fabrication, and bot-generated content.
We previously highlighted a study which found that institutional investors are using Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests – specifically, FDA FOIA requests - to generate abnormal returns. In this piece, we provide three examples of how investors have successfully utilised this FOIA technique to obtain early access to stock-moving information.
It is no secret that the current alternative data market heavily services public equity investors. Of course, these are some of the biggest alt data spenders, so such preferential treatment isn’t surprising. However, this bias leads us to believe that non-equity investors may assume that alt data isn’t relevant to their strategies. Unsurprisingly, we believe otherwise. In this report we take a look at the alternative data options for real estate investors. Specifically, we address 1) issues with using traditional datasets and 2) which alternative datasets could help provide more accurate KPIs.
Highlights of this month’s tidbits include good and bad news from the clickstream data universe, another data provider traction round-up, an unusual dataset origin story, and another alt data event in China.
The role of retail investors in the financial markets cannot be understated or underappreciated. In the following Intelligence report, we demonstrate how retail investor activity, sentiment, and attention can be a proxy for institutional investors to gauge future asset prices, stock liquidity, market returns, and market efficiency. The report will also go on to discuss several alternative datasets on retail investors that may be used by readers in creating such a leading indicator.
Neudata, the global alternative data evaluation company, is pleased to announce the completion of a $1 million funding round, with participation from existing and new investors.
Don’t hate the ESG rater, hate the very subjective ESG game. With the upcoming regulatory changes for investors to integrate ESG, we outline the specific issues investors should pay attention to. We also summarize the current state of ESG data, trends impacting the industry and the meaning of ESG.
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