Motivated by concerns that financial positions present a conflict of interest that impairs an analyst's objectivity, we examine investor perceptions of the financial positions of non-professional analysts (hereafter NPAs) providing stock analysis on the social media outlet SeekingAlpha...

This research analyses the link between fundamental information, social media sentiment, and stock returns from 2010 to 2018. We are interested in whether social media sentiment provides additional information to already published fundamental information, such as financial information and...

We classify the sentiment of a large sample of StockTwits messages as bullish,bearish or neutral, and create a stock-aggregate daily sentiment polarity measure.Polarity is positively associated with contemporaneous stock returns. On average,polarity is not able to predict next-day stock returns....

The underlying assumption of using investor sentiment to predict stock prices, stock market returns, and liquidity is that of synergy between stock prices and investor sentiment. However, this synergistic relationship has received little attention in the literature. This paper investigates the...