Forget analysts, mine Twitter for share trading

By James Saft
Updated September 3 2015 - 10:23am, first published 9:42am
Beating the Street: Twitter estimates rate better than analysts, which have a well-documented history of underestimating earnings going into announcements.  Photo: Brendan McDermid
Beating the Street: Twitter estimates rate better than analysts, which have a well-documented history of underestimating earnings going into announcements. Photo: Brendan McDermid
A user checks a Twitter feed on a smartphone in this arranged photograph taken in London, U.K., on Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. Twitter Inc.'s initial public offering documents suggested a valuation of $12.8 billion for the microblogging service, underscoring the seven-year rise of a still unprofitable company that has helped revolutionize how people share information. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

AFR 07-11-2013
A user checks a Twitter feed on a smartphone in this arranged photograph taken in London, U.K., on Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. Twitter Inc.'s initial public offering documents suggested a valuation of $12.8 billion for the microblogging service, underscoring the seven-year rise of a still unprofitable company that has helped revolutionize how people share information. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg AFR 07-11-2013

Investors might want to put aside all that Wall Street research and instead turn their eyes to Twitter.

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