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Gamified Stock Markets, Sentiment and Volatility: Evidence from the GameStop frenzy
Tran Nguyen, Thai Nhat Phi ; Krištoufek, Ladislav (advisor) ; Kočenda, Evžen (referee)
In this thesis, we study the impact of individual retail investors on the financial markets. We follow the GameStop retail trading frenzy from the beginning of 2021 and the retail investors aggregated on Reddit's r/wallstreetbets. The tools employed include natural language processing, wavelet analysis and vector error correction models. The results propose that the retail investor sentiment is highly susceptible to high volatility, extreme returns and frequent news coverage. Social media is shown to exacerbate these behavioural tendencies. We find evidence that retail investor sentiment is able to predict short-term returns for stocks specifically targeted by retail investors. The findings are, however, dependent on the investment horizon. Over long horizons, we find evidence for the reversal of the relationship. Lastly, while the effect of news and social media is similar in the long run, we show that Reddit sentiment, as opposed to news sentiment, is a significant predictor of retail targeted stocks in the near term. JEL Classification C55 C58, G12, G14, G41 Keywords Sentiment, Social media, GameStop, Reddit, Natural language processing, Wavelet analysis Title Gamified Stock Markets, Sentiment and Volatility: Evid- ence from the GameStop frenzy 1
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Fundamental Analysis and Stock Return: The Case of Big Tech
Tran Nguyen, Thai Nhat Phi ; Krištoufek, Ladislav (advisor) ; Máková, Barbora (referee)
Bibliographic note TRAN NGUYEN, Thai Nhat Phi. Fundamental Analysis and Stock Return: The Case Of Big Tech. Prague 2020. 102 pp. Bachelor thesis (Bc.) Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies. Thesis supervisor doc. PhDr. Ladislav Krištoufek Ph.D. Abstract Six out of the ten most valuable companies by market capitalisation are, at their core, technology companies and four of these have at some time crossed the $1 trillion market cap, which has ignited a public discussion regarding their astronomic valuations and the tech bubble. This work addresses this development, with the analysis of four companies, namely Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon (GAFA), which have dominated their respective fields of business in the "new economy". We go beyond the stock analysis and also examine the company's fundamentals and their effect on the valuations, furthermore we fuse the insights of both analyses to offer a more comprehensive evaluation of these four companies. The results suggest that their stock value accurately portrays their market dominance and that it is deeply rooted in the companies' fundamentals which are fairly well reflected in the stock price movements. Ultimately, we find that these companies do not contribute to the tech bubble as GAFA show unparalleled financial...
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