“You know, people tend to like to buy companies that are doing well.” – Walter Schloss In today’s Model Vs. Market post we’re looking at Verizon Communications. Verizon and other media companies...
TagniFiAugust 7, 2015
Dataocracy was created to showcase innovations in data. We share new technologies, models, and insights to help readers ask new questions and find new answers through data. Our goal? To inspire finance professionals with ideas on how they can change the world through data, one number at a time.
This morning we released a new Excel model that makes it easy to calculate a stock’s beta as of a historical date. We have yet to find a reliable source...
TagniFiAugust 3, 2015
We’re excited to announce a new version of the TagniFi Excel add-in that will make it easy to share your models with colleagues and clients that might not be using...
TagniFiJuly 27, 2015
“The value of any stock, bond or business today is determined by the cash inflows and outflows – discounted at an appropriate interest rate – that can be expected to...
TagniFiJuly 24, 2015
This morning we’ve opened up our Company Search tool for free. You can search for comparable companies by keyword, SIC code, industry classification or NAICS code to find comps for...
TagniFiJuly 17, 2015
This week in Model Vs. Market we’re taking a look at International Business Machines (IBM) to compare the company’s intrinsic value, as calculated by our discounted cash flow model, with the...
TagniFiJuly 16, 2015
Earlier this week we released the Ratio Analysis model for comparing a single company’s financial performance over time. Today we’re taking that model to the next level as a Peer...
TagniFiJuly 16, 2015
Are you looking to compare a company’s financial performance over time? If so, ratios provide a excellent tool for evaluating a company’s performance and trends. We’ve just released a new...
TagniFiJuly 13, 2015
This is the first post in a new series called Model Vs. Market where we compare a company’s intrinsic value, as calculated by our discounted cash flow model, with the...
TagniFiJuly 8, 2015
We’re really excited to announce that TagniFi is open for business. Investors and financial professionals now have an option for affordable and accurate financial data. Until now you’ve either paid...
TagniFiJuly 6, 2015
Today we’re announcing the opening of the TagniFi Markets dataset, making quality end-of-day market data available for free. This applies both to consumption and re-distribution so you are welcome to...
TagniFiJuly 6, 2015
Dear Congress: As you consider removing the XBRL mandate for a significant portion of public companies, please consider how such a move could be detrimental to investors over the long...
TagniFiApril 29, 2015
We’re very excited to announce that we’ve added our 2,000th company to the TagniFi Fundamentals dataset. We now have over 9 million standardized financial statement items available on-demand through our...
TagniFiFebruary 24, 2015
Prior to today our API and Excel add-in required users to request specific fiscal periods. For example, you had to specify that you wanted Apple’s 2014 revenue or Walmart’s Q3...
TagniFiFebruary 6, 2015
We’re very excited to announce that we’ve added our 1,000th company to the TagniFi Fundamentals dataset. We now have over 3 million standardized financial statement items available on demand through...
TagniFiOctober 30, 2014
We’re thrilled to announce the availability of TagniFi Fundamentals on SpreadCloud, a new Excel add-in for linking spreadsheets to data on the cloud. Any data item in the TagniFi Fundamentals...
TagniFiOctober 27, 2014
Last week we posted our first example of the data quality issues that are preventing investors from using XBRL directly. This week’s example is a 10-K from Arch Coal that...
TagniFiApril 2, 2014
We will be posting weekly to our blog with examples we’ve encountered to demonstrate why investors are not using XBRL. Here is this week’s example:
TagniFiMarch 22, 2014
Dear Investor: This June marks the 5th anniversary of the SEC’s XBRL mandate that promised more accurate and timely information to the investing public. Here is an except from the...
TagniFiMarch 17, 2014