Value investing

Snowball Research

US-listed stocks

Trial

REPORTS

What we publish

Events & Situation report

Project-X

13D summary

Significant news

2. Sample report

Cornerstone Building Brands (CNR): New CEO is a former top executive of $47 billion Dupont; Recent divestments to repay the debt; Insider buying

What Our Clients Say

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Snowball is a tremendous research tool for value- and change-orientated investors that literally does the heavy lifting to help you find great, needle-in-the-haystack investment ideas.

William C. Martin, Raging Capital Ventures / Raging Capital Management LLC

In a world of too many research services providing too many reports of dubious value, Snowball stands out as a worthwhile and differentiated publisher. Further Snowball’s key personnel are responsive to input from clients and always trying to improve their product, which bodes well for the future.

– Portfolio Manager , AUM: $200M

Raghu’s research saves us an enormous amount of time researching what other activists are doing with domestic public companies. He is on top of the latest news and he often supplements the news with value-added analysis and background about the activists and the executives. Our payback on subscribing is enormous.

– David Nierenberg, The D3 Family Funds

Your product is a good statistical reminder of companies that are ongoing changes. It exposes me to companies I might not be taking a look at. While limited, it is a good starting point for further investigation.”

– Portfolio Manager, AUM: $200M

3. Focus & expected outcome

Focus is on idea generation

It is not the scarcity of “money”; instead, it is the scarcity of “time” that underscores the importance of idea generation. Even if a fund manager has an army of analysts and a huge research budget, he/she is still required to “prioritize” the stock to spend time researching and thinking—that’s where “filters” play a significant role.

Snowball Research helps you with your idea generation process. Except for shareholder activism, we focus exclusively on US-listed stocks under $5 billion market capitalization

Expected outcome after reading the report

The stocks that we flag are worthy of “further research.” In other words, the best outcome after reading our report is this – you pick a stock highlighted in the report for the next level of research and/or add it to your watch list.

How do we differ?

Unlike focusing on quantitative data, we focus mostly on "qualitative information" to filter ideas. Our process is tied heavily to plenty of reading. As such, many qualitative factors that we highlight are typically hidden in quantitative screening techniques

In short, Snowball Research focuses on the "most ignored" section in the equity research process: narrowing down ideas from plenty of screens.