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'Survivor Or Thriver': tastyworks Brings Fantasy Contests To The Stock Market
Friday, April 17, 2020 - 5:51pm | 319Read More...tastyworks, the leading options brokerage for active traders, alongside Andy and Landon Swan, the fintech entrepreneurs behind social sentiment data platform LikeFolio, formally announced the launch of Earnings Survivor, an exciting concept that merges the stock market with fantasy league. “...
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Beer Makers Buy Into Hard Sparkling Water Trend As Hard Soda Fizzles
Friday, July 27, 2018 - 1:19pm | 654Read More...As beer continues to cede market share to alcoholic alternatives and hard sodas fall out of favor, brewers are jumping in on a rising trend. The industry is shaking its line-up with hard seltzer, a beverage seen to be as disruptive to beer as LaCroix has been to soda. Sparkling Water’s...
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Riskalyze Wins First-Ever LikeFolio Customer Love Award At 2018 Benzinga Fintech Awards
Thursday, May 24, 2018 - 4:23pm | 417Read More...People seem to really like using Riskalyze. The software platform that enables financial advisors to more accurately create portfolios based on their clients' risk profiles was named the winner of the first-ever LikeFolio Customer Love Award at the 2018 Benzinga Global Fintech Awards. The award...
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A Key Metric Signals Garmin Likely Had A Bad Fourth Quarter
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 - 8:09am | 468Read More...Social media data indicates Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) had a rough fourth quarter. That's according to Andy Swan, the co-founder of LikeFolio, a company that tracks social media analytics among brands and stocks. Swan was a guest on Friday's edition of Benzinga's PreMarket...
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Which Super Bowl LI Commercials Were Social Hits?
Monday, February 6, 2017 - 12:59pm | 805Read More...Investors who were glued to their TV sets to watch Tom Brady's epic comeback in the 2017 Super Bowl are now shifting their attention and asking the more pertinent question: Which companies outperformed during commercial breaks? The TD Ameritrade Ad Challenge used Social Sentiment data, a resource...
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Which Fintech CEO Starts His Day With An Ice Shower And Ends It With Books And Bourbon?
Monday, January 30, 2017 - 1:36pm | 636Read More...To get you prepared for the 2017 Benzinga Global Fintech Awards, Benzinga will profile the daily schedules of select fintech leaders whose companies have applied. For this installment, we spoke with LikeFolio CEO Andy Swan. A Day In The Life Andy Swan is the founder of LikeFolio, a company...
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Social Media Data Indicates Chipotle Is Primed For A Turnaround In 2017
Monday, January 9, 2017 - 4:27pm | 242Read More...After another disappointing year in 2016 following a disastrous string of food safety incidents in 2015, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE: CMG) shareholders are hoping that 2017 will finally bring the recovery they have been looking for. According to a recent presentation by Andy Swan, co-...
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After Trump's Election Upset, A New Focus On Social Media Data
Monday, November 21, 2016 - 2:23pm | 700Read More...In the wake of Donald Trump’s election upset, the political establishment that predicted a Hillary Clinton victory has been wracked by doubt and self-reflection. Commentators have taken particular ire with pollsters, as most leading models showed Clinton ahead in the polls up until late...
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Harnessing The Impact Of Big Shifts In Consumer Behavior With LikeFolio Co-Founder Andy Swan
Friday, May 15, 2015 - 8:10am | 648Read More...Financial expert and media personality Jeff Macke was the fireside chat host at the 2015 Benzinga Fintech Awards gala in New York on April 8. Below is the video and full transcript of his talk with Andy Swan, Founder at LikeFolio. Jeff Macke: I'm with Andy Swan at the Benzinga Fintech...
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TD Ameritrade Offers Social Research To Retail Clients
Monday, February 2, 2015 - 4:34pm | 178Read More...TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. (NYSE: AMTD) will offer its retail online brokerage customers filtered access to comments on Twitter, the company said Monday. Tracking social media sentiment and volume via Twitter can help discern trends as well as offer clues about a company's health and...
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How LikeFolio Predicted Good News For Bebe Stores
Friday, January 16, 2015 - 12:18pm | 576Read More...Andy Swan is a three-time financial technology entrepreneur. He co-founded his most recent company LikeFolio in 2013 with his brother. LikeFolio finds trends in publicly-traded companies by analyzing social media and helps investors find companies they want to invest in by highlighting which...
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#PreMarket Prep Guest List For The Week Of January 12, 2015
Monday, January 12, 2015 - 9:11am | 1075Read More...We’ll have guests calling in directly from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on this week’s #PreMarket Prep broadcast, sponsored by Marketfy. Be sure to tune in at 8:00 am EST Monday-Friday here to tune in to the exciting show. Monday, January 12, 8:35 a.m. Tim Anderson...











