Understanding the MarketGrader Sentiment Score

MarketGrader’s ratings, which are designed to help investors identify the world’s best compounders of value, are based on our belief that company fundamentals are the primary drivers of long-term shareholder returns. However, we also understand that often the near-term price movements of a stock seem to run independent of the company’s underlying fundamentals and are […]
ETF Grader – A Jewel inside MarketGrader.com
Many a tourist has returned from Russia with a Matryoshka doll as a souvenir. The numerous dolls waiting to be discovered inside can be as beautiful and more intricate than the first. For an investor, once inside MarketGrader.com, the discovery of ETF Grader can be a similar experience. ETF Grader, a separate analytic component inside […]
MarketGrader Bank Research Proves its Worth
It’s common for research services to write about their successes in analyzing a stock but not so for MarketGrader. So, it should be interesting to note that on September 23, 2011, MarketGrader wrote about the best three major banks in the United States. These banks were WFC, PNC and USB. Nearly six months later, fast […]
MarketGrader Sentiment Index Featured on Barron’s Electronic Investor
Barron’s popular Electronic Investor column published last month a brief article on MarketGrader.com’s sentiment indicator and how we aggregate all companies’ scores of the same into our MarketGrader Sentiment Index. For those who missed it, we first introduced our Sentiment Index, which we’ve dubbed MGSI, in early October when the stock market hit its 2011 […]
New Feature: Sentiment Stock Ideas
Our popular ‘Stock Ideas’ section, one of our web site’s most popular features with our subscribers, is, we suspect, about to become even more popular. After hearing back from many of our subscribers who have requested an expansion of this section to include more pre-filtered lists of stocks based on myriad search criteria, we have […]
New Feature: Expanded Company Profile Page
Those of you who subscribe to our web research service may have noticed this morning a few new and expanded sections of the web site. For those who have not seen them we encourage you to have a look and send us your feedback. The first new page, or, actually, enhanced page, is the ‘Company […]
Introducing the New Stock Sentiment Page
Since the release of our redesigned web site about a year ago one of the most popular new features with our subscribers has been our Top Down Analysis. In it, MarketGrader complements its traditional Fundamental or Bottom Up Analysis with three top down indicators: our Sector Rating, Sub-Industry Rating and Sentiment Rating. These three combine […]
Introducing MarketGrader’s Movers & Shakers
Next week will mark the second anniversary of MarketGrader’s Sentiment indicator, one of three ratings in our Top Down Analysis. While we didn’t start publishing our Sentiment scores on a regular basis until March of this year when we launched the beta version of our new web site, we have been tracking the new indicator […]
Welcome to the New MarketGrader (part 2)
As we explain throughout our web site our research methodology is based on the belief that the companies that consistently create economic value today are those that, most of the time, create lasting shareholder value in the future. This is why our research focuses on understanding and highlighting the strengths and weaknesses in a company’s […]