Hype · MeterWho Is Paying Attention
Top: daily price. Below: how many people looked up the company each day (people only, automated traffic left out), with its usual level (the median of the previous 60 days). Columns start at the usual level: up for busier days, down for quieter ones, on a doubling scale. They brighten with the level: bright blue at 1.5x usual, amber at 3x (dotted line), orange at 10x.
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Hype Meter in 30 seconds
When a stock is in the news, people look it up, trade it, talk about it and search for it. This page measures six kinds of attention, each against the stock’s own usual level, and rolls the measurable ones into one number.
The multiple
Every gauge is shown as a multiple of its usual level. 1x is a normal day, 3x a big news day, 10x a headline story. The label on the card combines them.
The chart
Each column is one day: how many people looked the company up, against the usual level (the white line). Busier days rise above it, quieter days hang below, on a doubling scale (1x, 2x, 4x...) so a normal week stays readable next to a 30x spike. Bright blue is 1.5x usual or more, amber 3x (the dotted line), orange 10x; the biggest spikes carry their multiple.
What it shows
Why a stock is moving and who has noticed. A big price move on quiet attention is a different story from one that the whole internet is talking about.
What it is not
A signal. We tested reader spikes on 335 US stocks from 2016 to 2026: returns over the next 5, 20 and 60 days were no different from other stocks’ once you allow for chance. The other gauges are too new to test.
What every number on this page means
- Reader interest
- How many people looked up the company in a large public encyclopedia that day (automated traffic excluded), against the median of the previous 60 days.
- Trading activity
- Shares traded in the last complete session, divided by the median of the 50 sessions before it. While the market is open, today’s partial session is left out.
- Investor chatter
- From the latest 30 posts about the stock on a large investor social network: posts per hour (from the oldest of them up to now, so a stream that has gone quiet reads as quiet), how many people watch the stock, and the share of posts tagged bullish among those tagged bullish or bearish. One reading a day is kept; after a week the usual level is their median.
- Forum mentions
- Mentions of the ticker in the last 24 hours across the biggest investing forums, for the 750 or so most-mentioned stocks, against the median of the previous days (or against a day earlier until a week of days exists). Counts under 5 are shown but not scored.
- News coverage
- News articles naming the company in the last 24 hours, against the average day over the six days before (weekends included). After a week of our own daily readings, against their median. The counter samples at most about 100 articles a week, so for very heavily covered companies spikes read low.
- Search interest
- How often people in the US search for the company name plus “stock”. The chart is scaled so its busiest point is 100, which makes shapes comparable but not levels, so it is not part of the combined number.
- All gauges together
- The geometric mean of the multiples that could be measured. It drives the label at the top of the card.
- Spikes table
- The days with the most readers against the usual level in the range you picked (one per week), with the stock’s move that day and over the next 20 trading days.
Good to know. Attention data comes from public sources and can be missing or late for small companies, funds and new listings. This describes public attention and market data; it is not a signal to buy or sell.
For education only. Data comes from third-party sources and may be delayed or wrong. Past patterns do not predict future results, and nothing here is investment advice or a recommendation to buy, sell or hold anything. See the Terms and Disclaimer.