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Stock prices react to news before they react to anything else — an earnings beat, a product launch, a lawsuit, a downgrade. This page tracks the real tone of that news coverage for ten major US stocks, so you can see whether the recent narrative around a company has been genuinely positive or negative, at a glance.
How This One Is Different (Important)
Unlike the Forex and Crypto sentiment pages on this site — which show real trader Long/Short positions — individual stocks don't have a single, free, publicly available source for that kind of raw positioning data. So this page measures something related but distinct: the aggregate tone of recent news coverage for each stock, scored article-by-article and averaged. A stock with mostly positive, bullish-leaning news coverage shows Buy; mostly negative coverage shows Sell; a mixed or quiet news cycle shows Neutral. It's a genuinely useful, real signal — just a different one from a position ratio, and worth knowing the difference.
Where This Data Comes From
Sentiment scores are pulled from Alpha Vantage's News & Sentiment API, which analyzes recent financial news articles per ticker and assigns each one a sentiment score. This page averages the recent scores (weighted by how relevant each article is to that specific company) into the single Bullish/Bearish reading you see on each card. Because of API limits, this refreshes roughly twice a day rather than continuously — still frequent enough to catch meaningful shifts in the news narrative.
How To Read Each Card
- Bullish % — the share of recent, relevance-weighted news coverage skewing positive
- Bearish % — the share skewing negative
- The label — Buy / Strong Buy for clearly positive coverage, Sell / Strong Sell for clearly negative coverage, Neutral for a quiet or mixed news cycle
Using This Alongside Your Own Research
1. Use it as a fast pre-check before you dig deeper
Seeing NVDA at Strong Buy is a prompt to go find out why — what news actually drove that — not a reason to buy on sight. Let it point you toward the right headlines, then read them yourself.
2. Watch for a shift, not just a snapshot
A stock flipping from Neutral to Sell between refreshes usually means something specific just happened. That's often more useful information than the label itself.
3. Remember earnings season changes the picture fast
Around earnings reports, news volume and tone can swing hard in a single day. Check back more often during those weeks for the stocks you're watching.
4. This isn't a valuation or a price target
Positive news sentiment doesn't mean a stock is cheap, and negative sentiment doesn't mean it's expensive. Combine this with your own fundamental or technical view — never as a standalone buy/sell signal.
A Quick Note on Honesty
This page used to show a set of stock indices through a third-party widget with a reversed sentiment convention. It's been rebuilt around real US stocks with genuine news-sentiment data, shown directly: green for positive coverage, red for negative — exactly as measured, nothing flipped.