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David Trainer, Founder & CEO

David Trainer, Founder & CEO

David Trainer, Found & CEO of New Constructs

February 21, 20184Comments

Getting ROIC Right – Get The White Paper

Ernst & Young white paper shows our financial models are superior. Key quotes: Why Ernst & Young chose New Constructs: “To test our hypothesis of the importance in getting the data right to
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
October 12, 20170Comments

Pension Cost Accounting Rule Change

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) introduced a new accounting standard that requires companies to present service cost as the only operating component of periodic pension costs on the income statement.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
New Constructs
July 19, 20170Comments

Changing the Names, But Not the Meaning, of Ratings

In response to feedback, we are making two changes to the names of our ratings. These changes in language have no impact on our underlying stock or ETF & mutual fund rating methodologies.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
July 17, 20170Comments

Why Robo-Analysts, Not Robo-Advisors, Will Transform Investing

Robo-advisors and Robo-Analysts are both important to enabling wealth management firms to cut costs without sacrificing quality of advice, but the importance of a Robo-Analyst to enhance the quality of investment advice shouldn’t be underestimated.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
March 15, 20170Comments

10,000 Scottrade Users Sign-Up In Just 6 Months

Over 10,000 Scottrade clients have signed up for New Constructs and are enjoying the benefits of our robo-analyst technology.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
January 30, 20170Comments

The $7.0 Trillion+ Opportunity In the Russell 3000

We conducted an analysis, as of November 30, 2016, of companies included in the S&P 500 and the Russell 3000 to reverse engineer the components that make up each company’s total enterprise value.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
January 30, 20170Comments

The $1 Trillion+ Opportunity in Working Capital Optimization in the Russell 3000

Based on our analysis, we estimate that Russell 3000 companies can free up between $600 billion to $1 trillion by focusing on working capital optimization initiatives.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
January 30, 20170Comments

The $700 Billion+ Opportunity In the Technology Sector

We conducted an analysis, as of November 30, 2016, of companies included in the Russell 3000 Information Technology Sector to reverse engineer the market’s expectations for cash flows as reflected in each company’s total enterprise value.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
September 12, 20162Comments

Partnership with Scottrade Enjoys Huge Launch Success

As of about 5:30CT on August 31st, all Scottrade clients gained free access to New Constructs Gold membership. We think that Scottrade has never seen adoption rates as fast as what they are seeing with New Constructs and their clients.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
July 29, 20161Comments

Scottrade Ramps Up Investment Research With New Constructs Offerings

New Constructs is proud to announce our new relationship with Scottrade, a leading financial services firm.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
February 18, 20160Comments

Open Letter to Larry Ellison: How To Boost Oracle’s Value By $65 Billion

Thesis: Management can boost the market value of ORCL in the amounts provided by aligning the firm’s strategy and performance compensation with real cash flows or what we call return on invested capital.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
Purpose of Stock Market
January 29, 20166Comments

ROIC: The Paradigm For Linking Corporate Performance To Valuation

It’s incredible that corporate executives and the market as a whole continue to depend on such flawed numbers when we already have a measure that is clearly linked with value creation: return on invested capital (ROIC).
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
August 7, 20150Comments

BBVA Open Talent 2015 Finalists Announced

New Constructs has been selected as a Finalist of the BBVA Open Talent 2015 competition.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
New Constructs
August 5, 20150Comments

August’s Most Attractive Stocks Available to Members Today

Gold Members and higher can access August's 40 Most Attractive Stocks as of Wednesday, August 5.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
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August 5, 20150Comments

August’s Most Dangerous Stocks Available to Members Today

Gold Members and higher can access August's 40 Most Dangerous Stocks as of Wednesday, August 5.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
New Constructs
July 2, 20151Comments

July’s Most Attractive Stocks Available to Members Today

Gold Members and higher can access July's 40 Most Attractive Stocks as of Thursday, July 2.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
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July 2, 20152Comments

July’s Most Dangerous Stocks Available to Members Today

Gold Members and higher can access July's 40 Most Dangerous Stocks as of Thursday, July 2.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
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May 1, 20155Comments

Weekly Webinar 4/30: How to Use Our Stock Ratings Part 2

In case you missed it, or in case you wanted to watch it again, here is our live webinar from this week.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
athenahealth
April 16, 20150Comments

Why We Put athenahealth in the Danger Zone

CEO David Trainer sat down with Chuck Jaffe of Money Life and MarketWatch.com this week to talk about our Danger Zone pick this week: cloud stock athenahealth (ATHN).
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
riskiest ETFs
April 14, 20150Comments

How Can an ETF be Risky?

In this podcast, David Trainer will reveal a few of our riskiest ETF picks and talk about how an ETF, which usually tracks an index, can be risky.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
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