Patent ID: 8380594

Claim:
A method for preparing a model to analyze a performance metric of a selected company, comprising: Identifying, by a computer, a first data source having a first set of non-stock price related, non-fundamental data, pertinent to the performance metric of the selected company; collecting, by a computer, the first set of non-stock price related, non-fundamental data; identifying, by a computer, an additional data source, having an additional set of non-stock price related, non-fundamental data, different from the first set of non-stock price related, non-fundamental data and pertinent to the performance metric of the selected company; collecting, by a computer, the additional set of non-stock price related, non-fundamental data; combining, by a computer, the first set of non-stock price related, non-fundamental data and the additional set of non-stock price related, non-fundamental data into a combined non-stock price related, non-fundamental data set; selecting, by a computer, an analytical process to apply to the combined non-stock price related, non-fundamental data set; applying, by a computer, the selected analytical process to the combined non-stock price related, non-fundamental data set to develop a model of the performance metric; and validating, by a computer, the model of the performance metric against the actual performance of the selected company.