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Strategy #0000000138 · Event-driven and special situations

Annual-report text changes and lazy prices
Enter whole-filing and risk-section change shares, threshold, both return scenarios and costs.

Lazy Prices compares changes in annual-report text and finds that new content in some risk-factor sections is associated with subsequent returns. Similarity measures can mistake formatting, boilerplate and irrelevant edits for signals; text measurement must also avoid using restated versions. This simulation accepts change percentages directly and does not download or compare filings.

Beginner-friendlyAbout 8 minutesEvidence and practical analysis

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Understand the story. Then inspect the risk.

Start with a familiar situation, check the payoff, then test how the numbers change.

The idea · in two minutes

When whole-filing or risk-section text changes exceed a threshold, what return scenario is entered?

Lazy Prices compares changes in annual-report text and finds that new content in some risk-factor sections is associated with subsequent returns. Similarity measures can mistake formatting, boilerplate and irrelevant edits for signals; text measurement must also avoid using restated versions. This simulation accepts change percentages directly and does not download or compare filings.

Enter whole-filing and risk-section change shares, threshold, both return scenarios and costs.

No SEC filings, semantic similarity, version timestamps or historical portfolio returns are analysed.

  • Input assumptionsEnter whole-filing and risk-section change shares, threshold, both return scenarios and costs.
  • Model outputNo SEC filings, semantic similarity, version timestamps or historical portfolio returns are analysed.

Illustrative research examples only. They are not live signals or a recommendation.

Variants · same family, different risk levers

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Related strategyRelationshipWhat changesNew cost or risk
Base scenarioManual inputsLazy Prices compares changes in annual-report text and finds that new content in some risk-factor sections is associated with subsequent returns. Similarity measures can mistake formatting, boilerplate and irrelevant edits for signals; text measurement must also avoid using restated versions. This simulation accepts change percentages directly and does not download or compare filings.No SEC filings, semantic similarity, version timestamps or historical portfolio returns are analysed.
Conservative versionHigher cost/lossStress higher costs, larger losses or lower liquidity.May lower scenario returns.
Validation versionData reviewTest model inputs with consistent contracts and timestamps.Needs licensed, representative data.

No SEC filings, semantic similarity, version timestamps or historical portfolio returns are analysed.

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References

Primary sources and research used to describe the strategy and its limits.

  1. 01Cohen, Malloy & Nguyen (2020), Lazy Pricesresearch