FinIndex in iGaming&GameDev: An Useful Tool for Investors or a Boring Buzzword?

[Bayan_D40]

For a while now, I've been immersed in the B2B iGaming landscape, closely observing developments and analyzing investor decisions. Through this experience, I've arrived at several observations that I intend to distill into a series of articles. First, let's figure out What is FinIndex in the iGaming and GameDev Industries? My initial focus is on how investors make decisions when it comes to public companies in the gambling sector.

One of the most tangible and comprehensible aspects of this process is what's known as financial indices. So, what exactly is a financial index? It typically entails a composite list of the top 100 companies in the iGaming industry that are publicly traded. From there, the stock prices of these companies are collected and, through complex calculations, a graph is plotted to illustrate the movement of their value.

Something akin to this graph



Or perhaps more like this one




As an investor, you find yourself contemplating late into the night: if the index is on the rise, it signifies growth across the entire gambling industry; if it falters, things aren't looking too bright. That's exactly what my team and I delved into. Our exploration was so thorough that we even launched our own index. When the time came to roll it out, it became evident that a visually appealing graph is just the tip of the iceberg in the realm of analytics. The essence lies not in the graph itself, but in what lies beyond it — in the multitude of useful details and possibilities.

FinIndex Data40:

• List of companies, top-40 and top-15, for which the index is monitored;
• The index calculation rule, a complex formula that takes into account all the various shareholder and capital differences between companies;
• Quotes and chart itself;
• A calendar with dates of significant industry events;
• Dates of public company reports (quarterly and annual);
• Dates of public company events (investor calls, or CEO letters);
• Dates of major industry and expert events, (Often platforms for new product announcements, and can influence investor valuations);
• News feeds from index companies;
• Facilitated news feed in which analysts distinguish noise from meaningful news;
• Express report series, “in response to a public report from company X, we release our own report with a valuation and sammarie”;
• A series of advanced reports, e.g. “comparing the top 4 closest competitors in the index”;
• Trend assessments and market dynamics forecasting;
• Evaluation of key events and retro market analysis;
• Options for private research and forecasting about index participants;
• Options for benchmark research and price comparison of private companies, based on public company values.

And are there any benefits in this at all?

Data40's FinIndex isn't just tailored for conventional financial markets; it also boasts specialized features designed for burgeoning sectors such as iGaming and GameDev. With its robust analysis and research capabilities, FinIndex equips investors in these sectors with precise and timely data, enabling them to navigate through rapid and intricate market changes with confidence.

In addition to its core functionalities, Data40's FinIndex offers specific indices like GD-D40, iG-D40, and iG15-D40. These indices, categorized as price indices, gauge the weighted average prices of assets within the index, reflecting price fluctuations across the asset group over defined time frames. While the GD-D40 index focuses on GameDev sector assets and iG-D40 covers iGaming sector assets, the iG15-D40 index provides a more detailed perspective within the iGaming sector by monitoring a curated selection of assets. This array of indices furnishes invaluable insights into pricing dynamics and performance trends within these dynamic market segments.

Key features of Data40's FinIndex include:

• Advanced Private Research
  FinIndex Advanced Private Research is an in-depth analysis based on a variety of data and expert insights. This service allows investors to obtain not only the overall financial performance of a company, but also a more detailed understanding of its strategy, management structure, market position and future prospects. This analysis allows investors to make informed decisions about their investments based on fundamental data.

• Value Analysis and Forecasts
  FinIndex Data40 also provides investors with the ability to order value analysis and forecasts of the factors affecting the companies in the index. The value analysis and forecasts provided within FinIndex help investors assess the current value of companies in the index and their potential for growth. This includes analyzing financial performance, key performance metrics, and macroeconomic factors that may affect the stock price. Forecasts provide investors with information on how these factors may change in the future and how this will affect investment strategy.

• Benchmark Price Research
  Public company benchmarking research allows investors to compare the prices and valuations of companies that are not publicly traded with similar public companies. This allows them to estimate the fair value of other public companies inside and outside the index based on comparable metrics and fundamental data. Interestingly, investors can also order FinIndex research on benchmark prices of public companies. This opens up new horizons for benchmarking and valuation.
  

• Smart Conversations
  Investors have the opportunity to engage in insightful discussions with seasoned advisors and experts, accessing high-quality analysis and transparent insights into intricate financial matters. These consultations not only enhance investors' strategic acumen but also offer an additional layer of decision support. Additionally, investors can request consultations with analysts and engage in interactive conversations to further deepen their understanding.

• Reviews of quarterly and annual reports of index constituents
  Currently focusing solely on the iG-15 index, provide valuable insights into performance trends and financial health within the iGaming sector.

• News Log
  FinIndex's news log and digests system provides investors with timely information on key events and trends regarding companies in the index. News validation helps filter and provide only relevant and reliable data, allowing investors to make informed decisions in real time.

• Paid Email Newsletter
  Data40's FinIndex newsletter subscription is about to go live. The subscription provides investors with personalized analysis, digests and notifications of important events regarding index companies. This allows investors to stay up-to-date on the latest developments and analytical findings without having to constantly monitor the market.

In Conclusion
FinIndex by Data40 is a powerful tool designed to meet the needs of today's investors for quality financial data and analytics. With its wide range of features and expert support, FinIndex becomes an indispensable asset for successful investment management.

Data40's FinIndex is not just a suite of tools, but a holistic platform that combines advanced data analytics and expert financial market knowledge. This product opens doors for investors of all experience levels by providing access to private research, benchmark analyses, interactive advice and up-to-date news, reducing analysis time and increasing awareness.

With FinIndex, investors can not only get up-to-date data, but also build more informed investment strategies, ensuring long-term success in the financial markets. The reliability, completeness, and timeliness of the information makes FinIndex an indispensable tool in the arsenal of every investor seeking to effectively manage their assets.

How popular are such products? And what else do investors use to make decisions about buying shares in gambling industry companies? All of this will be discussed in the upcoming articles.

[burenka]

Paid Email Newsletter is just on the way, it is not awaiable rn, but will be ready soon

[btc78]

There are a lot of platforms that show real-time movement of stocks or other assets as well. How does yours compare to others? I’m much interested in what features can your project offer investors? They should be unique enough because you want to stand out amongst many other platforms.

What will be your plans to keep improving the platform? Will these be enough for anyone to actually keep using your platform? These are only a few of the questions I am curious about but overall it seems like a good idea. Goodluck on your endeavor!

[burenka]

There are a lot of platforms that show real-time movement of stocks or other assets as well. How does yours compare to others? I’m much interested in what features can your project offer investors? They should be unique enough because you want to stand out amongst many other platforms.

Thanks for your question

Well, I dig this topic over last few years, and here what is found to the moment, to begin with, First:

• There is actually NO any "standard" methodology to calculate such "indexes" over the world
• It means, that every and each indexes, even world-most-know, like S&P500, or DJ - have their authors behind
• Every large stock exchange have usually their own methods, most a similar, but not every
• All the indexes have to be adjusted every month, or quater, or year; depends on math
• It is often that adjastment and correcments, or even key-factors in methods relys on... authors opinion, not math

Let's keep this in mind all the time then.

Second. By "fin-index" products, people and platforms might mean a lot of different things. Mostly and usually they mean "Graph with digits and stock prices in some way sorted, in time". But going deeper, "fin-index-product" it is have to be something more than that, due to current technologies, every 9-year old child with ChatGPT and minimum python experience can publish that kind of indexes. Or every user can just create their owns on platforms like yahoo.finance or similars.

So you have to always be sure in details, what you are talking about, whenever u mention somekind of indexes.

Common commercial fin-index products might (or might not) include: (a) news-about-companies facilitations, (b) calculations/comparisons stock-prices-vs-macro-audit-prices, (c) could be set up monitoring systems on the not only share-prices, but for example commodities-of-companies-enlisted prices, (d) could be additional manual-analysts reports with opinions on dynamics for each company / or industry itself / or groups of companies, .... etc etc etc. Every time it is different thing.

Third, and actually how our index differs. To cut it short answer will be: "A lot of differences, but to say precisely need to know comparison to what type/particular index?".

We have, behind digits and graph with prices:

• Calendar of public reports, of companies enlisted
• Our report on every their report, so we pre-formating all variety of formats into one
• Our analysts opinion on their reports
• Monthly digest with summarize of trends and key news
• Facilitated news, of companies enlisted
• Quaterly additinal extended reports, like for example DRP (deep products review) or PVS (product values score) etc.
• Email subscription with all of those
• Our software "D40 Terminal", with all of those
• Readiness to get additional survey to the table, warmed up analysts team; on demand
• Readiness to form forecast, on demand

Our goal is simple,

• For common user: to show quick dynamics of industry "How the iGaming/Gambling industry feels? Goes up or down?"
• For professional user: materials to work with retro/fore-casts by themself, and additional brain-power on demand"

What will be your plans to keep improving the platform? Will these be enough for anyone to actually keep using your platform? These are only a few of the questions I am curious about but overall it seems like a good idea. Goodluck on your endeavor!

Oh, I'd love to share all my plans. MVP public release of terminal soon, like i'd love to open it rn, but there is like about 100 bugs in the list to fix, mostly front-end and UX, so hope soon it will be ready. Will it be enought, god, I'd love to know. (esp I'd love to know it like 4 years ago, before starting xD)

Thanks, gl to you to

[burenka]

lets say the key-goals and plans rn:

* to realease it (terminal software) finally
* to run up subscription online, there is some issues with stripe and delaware so it takes time,

* to run up addtional indexes,

rn it is only iG15 (top 15 iGaming companies),
i wanted to open up with iG40 (top 40),
and later there is about more 90 companies, so it have to be like iG131 or smth,

then we have about 150 companies in GD150 index, GameDev companies, same issues, hard to launch, a lot of work needed.

and then, the most qurious for me personally - it BC200, like there is not that much ACTUALLY public companies in blockchain industry, but I have an idea of approach, ho to form similar quality analytical product for top 200 blockchain companies.

And after I launch standart iG131, GD150, and BC200. I'll slowly start to create advanced monitoring system, like at screenshot below, with more advanced data. Shortly: there is some deeper public data about those companies, which goes FASTER than share prices, and impacts it a lot with a buffer of time.

For example, imagine : company MindArc, publicly traded in sweeden https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MNDRK.ST/
Not the USA company, so no requirements to publicly report quaterly, just yearly.  So actual info goes really quite rare.
Although they have 1 key product, and for example at tracker entropialife dot com, we have a data of in-game turnover per week, updated daily. So my spider-crowler parsing it daily. And, well, within 85% precision i know their revenue like way earlier than.. investors at stock market, or for example, yahoo finance.

And if you dig deeper, actually you can find those "early public data to gather before", almost about EVERY company in iGaming, GameDev or Blockchain companies. Imagine: pc-games have online-stats, abount-of-downloads, ccu/pcu, mau etc. iGaming websites have a lot of public avaibale stat about amount of customers, amount of bets etc. Blockchain, well, you know it, have a lot of transparency within networks to monitor.