During this recent webinar (https://refini.tv/37DJGNI) for business partner BattleFin, we examined some key performance indicators (KPIs) with an upcoming earnings season in mind. In my contribution to the event, I used BP (BP.L), formerly British Petroleum, as a running example. One reason for choosing BP is that there’s been a very broad range of performance returns so far this year among oil majors, as seen in Exhibit 1. That suggests that any insights into future earnings that can be gleaned from data may be especially valuable in this industry segment. Exhibit 1: Year-to-date Oil Majors Stock Price Performance To overstate

Admittedly, the title to this article may be a pun too far. However, in this post, we’ll show you where you could have found signs of potential distress within rental car company Hertz Global Holdings Inc. (HTZ.N), well before it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on May 26. The analytics presented in this report come from Refinitiv’s suite of StarMine quant models. As shown in Exhibit 1, the Eikon widget that sorts StarMine models into bullish and bearish categories show many bearish indicators for Hertz and not a single bullish one. StarMine models fall into two categories – alpha