We are delighted to introduce a new Company Landing Page for all companies under coverage in the Gridstone stock universe! Based upon user feedback we designed a landing page for each company enabling an “at a glance” overview of the company, its businesses, historical performance, latest news, and competition. Uses for the Company Landing Page include rapidly surveying and becoming acquainted with a broad set of stocks as well as serving as a launching point into fundamental company analysis using the Gridstone Research proprietary data set.
We are excited to announce the release of v1.0 of Gridstone’s Excel Add-in. Our users can now leverage the power of our platform’s deep financial data directly in Excel. We’ve made it especially easy-to-use and intuitive for users of all skill levels, reflecting our commitment to increasing investments analysts’ productivity.
New tools can do some tasks of the research analyst. Gridstone Research, for instance, offers software that can automatically assemble, analyze and structure company information into financial data, guidance and operational data.
Wall Street & Technology explains why technology is letting analysts automate the clerical work and instead use their analytical skills.
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal has an article [subscription required] that says that overseas profits are fueling growth for US companies, even as the financial markets tumble. The weak dollar is one of the reasons. The other is that Asian and Emerging economies is where the growth is.
Foreign operations contributed to strong second-quarter results in recent weeks from a number of companies, ranging from giants like General Motors Corp. and Citigroup Inc. to smaller manufacturers like Harley-Davidson Inc. Part of this upswing can be traced to a weaker dollar, which creates an automatic gain when a company translates overseas profits back into now-devalued greenbacks.
As I meet Tech sector Analysts in the markets, I find out just how interested they are in companies that have significant overseas revenue. Of course, being interested isn’t enough. Assembling the data on geographically broken out revenue and profit is very painful. Until I tell them about how easy it is to do that on the Gridstone platform! Every company we cover will have Geo breakouts, if it reports them. They love it!
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