Influence and Predictive Value of Seeking Alpha Articles

Wolfgang Breuer, Andreas Knetsch and Eric Sachsenhausen

Financial Analysts Journal, 2025, vol. 81, issue 1, 102-128

Abstract: We find that recommendations issued by Seeking Alpha authors can affect trading activity substantially, which makes them an interesting source of information for retail and professional traders alike. A recommendation’s chances to become influential in this sense are greater for more accessible articles and depend on characteristics that are observable without reading the text. This result is in line with the existence of processing costs, as Seeking Alpha community members might be unwilling to spend much effort reading full articles and instead use superficial criteria to decide which articles to follow. Article features that are consistent with a detailed, in-depth analysis provide more valuable mid- to long-term investment advice. However, the immediate reaction from readers to such articles appears to be less pronounced. We provide evidence for potentially profitable investment strategies based on those article features.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/0015198X.2024.2403359

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