280first unveiled the results of its unique financial analysis service today demonstrating that its “alerts” service would have beaten the market 72 percent of the time if the actionable information delivered in the service had been acted upon.

Much of the information investment professionals seek is buried in cumbersome unstructured data, such as 10k/10q and other public filings, requiring page-by-page reading and comparison of each sequential document. The 280first platform dynamically analyzes this data, enabling its highly experienced team of analysts to uncover and expose material information and otherwise undiscovered insights for investment professionals. These insights are typically delivered to clients within an hour of the financial document’s filing, giving clients a considerable time advantage and a heads-up on other material that could affect their investment decisions.

280first analyzed the effectiveness of the first year of its alerts service by subjecting all of its individual alerts to standard rules for trades in a variety of categories. According to 280first CEO and Founder Zhiping (Ping) Zhao, the results were excellent and validated the enthusiasm of clients with clear data.

“Of the 661 alerts we have delivered thus far, 137 were actionable,” said Zhao. “Ninety-nine of these would have ‘beaten the market’ if actions were taken based on the very simple and standard set of ‘rules’ we used for the analysis. In reality, investment professionals use a far more sophisticated and industry-specific rule set to consider an action. We believe that if these more specific rules were applied, investors could have achieved even better results and that our initial analysis is likely quite conservative.”

The 280first platform launched in 2015 and is in active use by top investment professionals.