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Meet 'Forcerank,' The Crossover Between Stock-Picking And Daily Fantasy Sports
Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 11:00am | 1015Read More...Led by co-founder Leigh Drogen and company, financial services disruptor Estimize is at it again. This time it’s the launch of a skill-based contest for stock market fans who want to compete for fame and (a small) fortune. The app-centered contest is called Forcerank. Benzinga...
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The 'Real Big Thing' In LinkedIn's Q2 Results
Friday, July 31, 2015 - 8:20am | 342Read More...LinkedIn Corp (NYSE: LNKD) reported second-quarter results on Thursday. The company blew out analysts' expectations of EPS of $0.30 on revenue $679.93 million by reporting EPS of $0.55 on revenue of $712 million. Leigh Drogen, Estimize founder and CEO, was on CNBC to weigh in on the...
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Estimize Receives $3.6 Million Strategic Investment From Euromoney
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 - 1:18pm | 473Read More...Estimize has roughly doubled the value of its Series B after Euromoney acquired a 10 percent stake in Estimize for $3.6 million. "The media is an incredibly important part of making Estimize the dataset," Leigh Drogen, founder and CEO of Estimize, told Benzinga. "They have an...
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Estimize CEO Sees Q1 Beat For LinkedIn
Thursday, April 30, 2015 - 1:29pm | 281Read More...LinkedIn Corp (NYSE: LNKD) will beat the Wall Street profit consensus by 7 percent according to a crowd-sourced earnings projection service. "We believe LinkedIn is going to perform really well," said Leigh Drogen, chief executive of Estimize. Drogen was speaking April 14 at a...
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Why Yelp Is The 'Most Interesting' Earnings Report This Quarter
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 12:38pm | 239Read More...Estimize CEO Leigh Drogen called Yelp Inc (NYSE: YELP) the "most interesting" report this quarter, noting that it is the first time that Yelp's revenue has had a negative delta, meaning the rate of growth is slowing. Further, Drogen said the Estimize consensus is below Wall Street...
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Estimize Sees 'Huge Revenue Number' From Twitter
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 1:59pm | 248Read More...Twitter Inc (NASDAQ: TWTR) will beat Wall Street's profit expectations by 75 percent when it posts first-quarter results after the bell Tuesday, according to the head of a crowd-sourced earnings prediction service. "We're extremely bullish" on Twitter, Estimize Chief Executive...
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Estimize CEO Sees Weak Sentiment On Q1 Pandora Fundamentals
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 2:31pm | 255Read More...Expectations for Pandora Media Inc (NYSE: P)'s first quarter results expected after the Bell Thursday have been on a steep downward trend, according to the head of Estimize, a crowd-sourced earnings forecast service. "We're seeing falling estimates and not much positive sentiment...
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Estimize CEO: Amazon Revenue Direction 'Not Good'
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 2:08pm | 164Read More...Estimize CEO Leigh Drogen recently discussed Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) ahead of its earnings release. The Wall Street consensus was for EPS of $(0.14) on revenue of $22.417 billion, while the Estimize consensus was somewhat higher and currently anticipated EPS of $0.00 on revenue of $22....
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The Estimize Preview For Google Is Not Expecting An Upside Surprise
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 2:04pm | 204Read More...Estimize CEO Leigh Drogen recently discussed Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) ahead of its earnings release. The Wall Street consensus was for EPS of $6.63 on revenue of $14.061 billion, while the Estimize consensus was slightly higher and expected EPS of $6.78 on revenue of $14.261...
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Netflix Investors: You Might Have Missed This Data Before Earnings
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 1:32pm | 360Read More...Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is scheduled to report its first quarter results on Wednesday after market close. The Estimize Consensus estimate for earnings per share is $0.77 with 97 estimates included. The Estimize Consensus estimate for revenue is $1.582 billion. The Wall Street consensus...
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Estimize Raises $3 Million To Revolutionize Crowdsourced Earnings
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - 7:00pm | 442Read More...Estimize, a rising startup that crowdsources estimates from more than 4,500 hedge funds, brokerages and independent analysts, announced that it has raised $3 million in a Series B funding round. The round was led by WorldQuant Ventures, which was Estimize's first client in 2012. "This is really...
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Instagram Could Have Been A $20 Billion Empire Without Facebook
Monday, March 16, 2015 - 7:50am | 749Read More...Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) paid $1 billion for Instagram, believing that it was a prominent social media platform that would only grow stronger with time. That bet seems to have paid off. "They're probably a $20 billion company if they're standalone right now," Leigh Drogen, co...
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Exclusive: Estimize CEO Leigh Drogen On What's Next For The Financial Crowdsourcing Platform
Saturday, January 31, 2015 - 1:40pm | 724Read More...Estimize founder and CEO Leigh Drogen shared insight with Benzinga about the future of his company and the role it will play regarding crowdsourced estimates on Wall Street. “Estimates are incredibly important,” Drogen said, “because it’s how we build an...
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How Crowdsourcing Is Democratizing The World Of Finance
Friday, December 19, 2014 - 10:46am | 1183Read More...Crowdsourcing has been used for centuries, according to Jeff Howe. He coined the term in a 2006 article for Wired magazine. Crowdsourcing exists in countless shapes and sizes, most notably in places like the restaurant industry with Yelp Inc (NYSE: YELP), and the travel sector with the likes of...
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How Wall Street Is Using Estimize
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 9:09am | 891Read More...The first customers of Estimize were large quantitative hedge funds. But the data from the crowd-sourced analytics provider is now being requested by discretionary traders, analysts, portfolio managers, bankers, investor relations departments and even corporations, according to founder and...
