What is the Pessimism List?The Pessimism List represents all forward looking negative (versus positive) commentary about a company and its stock expressed by investors in online financial social media. The stocks on this list tend to underperform their peers due to a downward momentum effect (low expectations lead to more selling). |
| Now What?We recommend that you read and identify stocks of interest to you in this list. Then simply click through the stock symbol to our sentiment analysis page for that ticker, where you can see the recent price trend, sentiment indexes over time, and "Sentiment Alerts" which flag surges in online chatter about the company. | ||||||||||
Using our proprietary linguistic analysis technology, we identify relevant conversations among 10,000 U.S. stocks and ETFs in social media sources such as Twitter and chat rooms. | ||||||||||||