October 30, 2017· 26 min

Everything You've Been Taught About How to Value a Stock Might Be Wrong

Orality
Model
62%
Mixed oral/literate (blogs, casual essays)

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(774 words)
M:29%
HostTracy Alloway(1,450 words)
M:29%
GuestFeng Gu(1,278 words)
M:28%
GuestBaruch Lev(402 words)
M:26%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic39%
literally, completely, absolutely
Engagement61%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, so
Repetition100%
earnings (52x), companies (34x), they (31x)
Parallelism85%
And I'm Joe Weisenthal...., So Joe, we are in the midst of..., And it's when you really have ...
Sound Patterns46%
20 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases9%
at the end of the day, i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging9%
might, maybe, could
Passive Voice13%
were impressed, were impressed, were expected
Abstract Nouns19%
investment, recommendation, equity
Subordination9%
because, since, though
Sentence Length44%
Avg: 16.1 words/sentence
Word Complexity52%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers7%
according to
Impersonal Style39%
266 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style86%
literally, completely, especially

Description

Investors are constantly poring over income statements from big companies to figure out whether they should buy or sell the business's stock. But should they bother? In this week's episode, Joe and Tracy talk to Feng Gu, a professor at SUNY Buffalo, and Baruch Lev, a professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, about why the way we account for a company's earnings might be massively outdated. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.