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...