Understanding red flags

What is a Critical Audit Matter (CAM)? The investor's guide

How to interpret a Critical Audit Matter (CAM) in an audit report and evaluate its importance. A brief explanation for investors.

Making sense of recent internal control issues

Plus: List of large cap and mid cap companies with material control weaknesses On October 26, 2022, Ernst & Young expressed an adverse...

How language models are disrupting equity research A note from Bedrock AI's CTO

A note from Bedrock AI's CTO A few months ago, we launched the Bedrock AI news feed, a fully-automated real-time AI-driven news feed...

We Think Jim Cramer is Absolutely Right! But About What?!?

Wall Street commentator Jim Cramer seems to be wrong about everything these days. However, we seem to be on the same page as him on at...

SPACs: “They’re finding themselves in situations where they’re not ready for prime time"

Nicola White of Bloomberg highlighted the trials and tribulations of a few of our favourite Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs)...

Annual Report (10-K) Red Flag Guide: Part II

Welcome to the highly anticipated Part II of the Bedrock AI Red Flag Guide. We highly recommend you start with Part I if you are just...

Interpreting internal control (ICOFR) weaknesses in stock research

CLVT, PLUG, JAMF and others recently reported material weaknesses Should you care about material weakness disclosure? When and why?...

Crypto & greenwashing

Is SDIG’s coal refuse plant environmentally beneficial? Stronghold Digital Mining (SDIG), a Bitcoin mining company that burns coal...

Predicting disaster at Credit Suisse

How Bedrock AI predicted Credit Suisse’s current day troubles without insider information Credit Suisse is back in the news (did it ever...

That’s not my name - fraud risk and corporate name changes

Featuring FuboTV and Ideanomics From 2016 through November 9th, 2021, 10,682 companies filed a 10-Q or 10-K (quarterly/annual reports)...

Annual Report (10-K) Red Flag Guide: Part I

Frequently, we see companies present impressive earnings but leave the details to the fine print. For instance, in February 23, 2021...