UAFRS vs As Reported Monthly Highlights - 2020 08 31
This month, Valens identified distortions and the corresponding adjustments to correct for those distortions for TWTR, WIX, NCR, MOV, LFUS, and EBIX.Ebix is a supplier of infrastructure exchanges to the insurance, financial, and healthcare industries. The company focuses on: expansion of connectivity between all entities through its Exchange family of products in the financial, travel, life, health, workers compensation, risk management, annuity and property and casualty (P&C) sectors namely the EbixCash and EbixExchange family of products; sales and support of P&C back-end insurance and broker management systems; sale, customization, development, implementation and support of its P&C back-end insurance carrier system platforms; risk compliance solution services; and e-governance/e-learning solutions in emerging world markets.
Littelfuse is a manufacturer of technologies in circuit protection, power control and sensing. The company has three segments: Electronics, which provides fuses and fuse accessories, positive temperature coefficient resettable fuses, polymer electrostatic discharge suppressors, varistors, and gas discharge tubes; Automotive, which consists of circuit protection, power control and sensing technologies for original equipment manufacturers, Tier-I suppliers and parts distributors in the passenger car, agricultural, construction and other commercial vehicle industries; and Industrial, which includes power fuses, protection relays and controls and other circuit protection products.
Movado Group designs, sources, markets and distributes watches. The company's portfolio of watch brands comprised of owned brands MOVADO?, MVMT?, OLIVIA BURTON?, EBEL? and CONCORD? as well as licensed brands COACH?, TOMMY HILFIGER?, HUGO BOSS?, LACOSTE?, SCUDERIA FERRARI?, REBECCA MINKOFF? and URI MINKOFF?. The company conducts its business primarily in two operating segments: Watch and Accessory Brands, which includes the designing, manufacturing and distribution of watches of quality owned brands and licensed brands; and Company Stores, which includes retail outlet locations in the U.S. and Canada. The company divides its business into two primary geographic locations: U.S. and International.
NCR is a software- and services-led enterprise provider in the financial, retail, hospitality and telecommunications and technology industries. The company is an enterprise provider selling a portfolio of digital first software, services, hardware and payments. The company's segments include: Banking, which includes automated teller machines and payment processing hardware and software; Retail, which provides solutions that primarily include retail-oriented technologies, such as point of sale (POS) terminals and POS software; Hospitality, which provides solutions that include POS hardware and software solutions; and Other, which includes telecommunications and technology solutions.
Twitter provides products and services for people, organizations, advertisers, developers and platform and data partners. The company's product, Twitter, is a global platform for public self-expression and conversation in real time. The company's mobile application, Periscope, lets anyone broadcast and watch video live with others. The company's products and services for advertisers include Promoted Products such as Promoted Tweets, Promoted Accounts, and Promoted Trends. The company's products for developers and data partners provide tools and public application programming interfaces to build applications and other products that utilize Twitter data and syndicate and distribute Twitter content across their properties.
Wix.com develops and markets an internet service that allows users to create web content. Co. is a global web development platform enabling businesses and organizations to take their businesses, brands and workflow online. Co.'s core product is the Wix Editor, a drag-and-drop visual development and website editing environment complete with high quality templates, graphics, image galleries and fonts. With Co.'s platform, Wix registered users can create and manage a professional quality digital presence tailored to their business and brands' specific look and feel that is accessible across all major browsers and the most widely used desktop, tablet and mobile devices.
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- GAAP and IFRS have failed to provide rules for reliable financial statement reporting
- Stock analyst recommendations are not grounded in disciplined financial analysis
- Credit agencies have been set up to grossly fail in their responsibilities to investors and the public markets
- Utter lack of willingness of major research firms to employ the the most advanced forensic analysis available
We sought to provide investors and company analysts with a source of information that changed all that.
Many years later, our business model remains because little has changed on Wall Street.
- Corporate credit ratings remain years behind the fundamental underpinnings of company performance
- Stock analysts continue to make recommendations with deeply inherent biases
- Research firms have failed to break down the walls between credit, equity, and macroeconomic research
- The governing accounting bodies have created more leeway for mis-estimates and mis-classifications as financials have become unwieldy and overwhelming
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