Use Cases
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Beyond Industry Labels: Mining Alpha from Company Relationship Networks
Traditional industry classifications miss the complex web of business relationships. Discover how combining product value chains, supply chain linkages, and news co-mentions captures alpha that conventional models overlook.
Sentiment-Resistant Stocks: Finding Alpha in Emotional Market Noise
Not all stocks react equally to market mood swings. Discover how identifying sentiment-resistant companies creates a systematic edge by capturing fundamental value while others chase emotional trades.
Timing Sentiment: When News Creates Tomorrow's Alpha
The market doesn't price in news instantly or uniformly—timing matters. Learn how systematically weighting overnight versus intraday news exploits predictable lags in how different investor segments react to information.
Signal from Noise: Precision Filtering for News-Based Alpha
Raw news data contains more noise than signal—generic mentions, irrelevant co-references, and low-conviction commentary dilute predictive power. Learn how filtering by relevance, specificity, and context dramatically improves factor performance.
Following the Money: Supply Chain Networks as Return Predictors
Companies don't operate in isolation—they're nodes in vast supply chain networks where upstream disruptions and downstream demand shocks propagate predictably. Learn how mapping these relationships reveals hidden market structure.
Product-Level Intelligence: Granular Classification for Stock Selection
Industry classifications are too coarse—two 'technology' companies making semiconductors versus software have fundamentally different economics. Learn how product-level taxonomy enables more precise factor models.
Proportional Sector Exposure: Precision Risk Management with Revenue Data
Modern companies don't fit neatly into single industry boxes—diversified businesses span multiple sectors. Learn how proportional industry exposures based on actual segment revenues enable more precise risk models and cleaner sector rotations.
Connected Companies, Correlated Returns: What Media Co-Mentions Reveal
When financial media discusses companies together, it reveals hidden connections that traditional classification misses—shared suppliers, competitive dynamics, or thematic linkages. Learn how news co-occurrence networks predict correlated movements.
Growth Classification and Dynamic Valuation: Screening Beyond Analyst Coverage
Growth stocks and value stocks require fundamentally different valuation frameworks. Discover how classifying companies by lifecycle stage and applying stage-appropriate valuation models unlocks alpha in under-covered segments of the market.
Industry Lifecycle Analysis: Timing Sector Rotation with Maturity Indicators
Industries aren't static—they emerge, grow, mature, and sometimes decline. Learn how quantifying lifecycle stages using participant dynamics and profitability patterns enables more precise sector rotation than traditional momentum or valuation signals.
Solar Supply Chain Intelligence: Prosperity Modeling for Segment Rotation
The solar industry isn't monolithic—margins and returns vary dramatically across polysilicon, wafers, cells, modules, and installation. Discover how mapping the PV value chain and tracking profitability migration enables tactical rotation within this high-growth sector.
Fine-Tuning LLMs for Pharma Sentiment: Sector-Specific NLP Without the API Bills
Generic language models underperform on specialized domains like pharmaceutical news. Discover how fine-tuning open-source LLMs (ChatGLM) achieves GPT-level accuracy on sector-specific sentiment for a fraction of the cost—while keeping your data private.
Hidden Alpha in Financial Footnotes: Mining the Data Most Investors Ignore
Financial statements get all the attention, but footnotes contain the granular operational details that reveal quality, risk, and hidden inflection points. Discover how systematically mining 678 point-in-time signals from financial notes generates alpha uncorrelated with traditional factors.
Macro Sentiment Trading: What Chinese News Flow Tells You About Market Direction
Beyond stock-specific sentiment—discover how aggregating news flow into a market-wide sentiment indicator predicts CSI300 directional moves. When the crowd's mood shifts, the entire market follows.
Finding Hidden Champions: Identifying Specialized 'Little Giant' Companies
China's 'Little Giant' program designates specialized SMEs with strong fundamentals—but most aren't public yet. Learn how product granularity and financial metrics identify unlisted candidates before official designation drives valuations higher.
Geographic Risk Mapping: When Supply Chains Meet Regional Disruptions
When Shanghai locked down in 2022, which companies were most exposed—and which of their suppliers and customers faced secondary shocks? Learn how mapping headquarters and supply chain networks reveals hidden geographic concentration risks.
Revenue Split Alpha: When a Company's Business Mix Tells More Than Its Stock Price
Companies rarely operate single businesses—most span multiple products and segments. Learn how decomposing returns by business segment using SAM revenue splits creates a powerful factor that exploits market under-reaction to segment-specific information.
ROE Term Structure: Reading the Shape of Future Profitability
Analyst ROE forecasts aren't just numbers—they form a 'term structure' across future years. The shape of this curve (rising, flat, declining) predicts stock performance, and changes in the curve shape are even more powerful signals.
Alpha Transmission: How Returns Propagate Through Supply Chains
Alpha doesn't stay contained—it transmits from upstream to downstream through commercial linkages. Learn how supply chain momentum factors capture return spillovers before the market recognizes cross-company dependencies.
Competitive Landscape Mapping: Visualizing Industry Power Through Supply Chain Data
Who has pricing power in an industry? Who's dependent on whom? Where do margins accumulate? Discover how visualizing product-level supply chain graphs reveals competitive dynamics that balance sheets alone obscure.
Text Data for Thematic Investing: Capturing Narrative-Driven Market Moves
Beyond stock-specific sentiment—learn how using NLP to identify emerging investment themes (AI infrastructure, green transition) from news and reports enables thematic portfolio construction that adapts as narratives evolve.