What are the most researched 200 public companies by RETAIL investors.
I am not looking for which companies institional investors research
the most, but companies that are researched by retail investors.
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
27 Oct 2004 08:53 PDT
I can't recall ever having seen a measure of a "most researched" company.
How would one document this? Is there a particular definition or
metric you have in mind? If you're aware of any existing lists along
these lines, it would help immensely if you could provide a pointer to
them.
Thanks.
pafalafa-ga
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Clarification of Question by
easydoesit-ga
on
28 Oct 2004 06:06 PDT
It is not the most researched "company" but the top public researched companies
by retail investor. For instance if a retail investor (the average
joe investor) goes to their TD Waterhouse online account to trade
stock, they may want to conduct research first on a company they have
interest. On many trading portals such as TD Waterhouse and research
portals such as Yahoo Finance, NASDAQ, Reuters, etc., retail traders
can got to a section called research and pull up research information.
I am looking to prepare information
on public companies for this research, but I need have a mock up that
consists of the most actively researched companies. It surpises some
that depsite their names like GE, Exxon, etc that retail investors
will buy research information. A professional investor would not pull
up information on most companies becuase they already have it at their
finger tips through major subscription services.
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Request for Question Clarification by
vercingatorix-ga
on
15 Nov 2004 08:03 PST
There are many sources for retail research, all of which compete with
each other. The only dependable source for actual numbers of retail
investors accessing research would be the companies themselves. For
competitive reasons, they do not share this data.
I'm afraid the numbers you are seeking are not available, at least not
from a reputable source. It may be possible to get such numbers for
one or two research sources, though I personally do not have access to
such data.
However, I have a possible work-around. What if I could provide you
with the 200 companies with the largest number of common stockholders?
I can find out how many investors own the shares in their own name.
It's not exactly what you want, but it stands to reason that the more
people own a given stock, the more people are likely to access
research on that stock, and the more interest there is in the stock
from investors of all stripes.
V
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