Source: Yahoo Finance  The Signal: The home goods retailer Bed, Bath & Beyond (BBBY) saw its stock price decline by more than 20% one day last week. The sharp dip followed the company’s release of a sales warning, which highlighted that same-store sales…

The signal: Sleep science is closely linked with other wellness trends. If you take a look at the r/sleep subreddit, for example, you’ll notice that its related subreddits give us insight into what sleep advocates also care about. Looking closely, you’ll notice…

Source: National Marine Manufacturing Association (NMMA) The Signal: OneWater -- a premium boat retailer with 63 stores in the US and 2019 revenue of $768m -- recently filed its pre-IPO S-1 forms and officially went public on February 11. Per the filing, OneWater…

Source: Google Trends The signal: Among other trends driven by the rise of “maker culture,” people are interested in making their own perfume. But beyond the fun of turning your kitchen into a potions class, people are gleefully bypassing the smelly 90%+ margins…

Source: Social Blade The Signal: The XFL made its triumphant return over the weekend after a nearly 20-year break. Founded by Vince McMahon, the 8-team professional football league played one season in 2001 before closing shop. To make the second go-around stick,…

Source: IBISWorld The Signal: Over the final week of January 2020, Tennessee-based Schurman Fine Papers -- which sells artsy stationary and Papyrus-branded greeting cards -- filed for bankruptcy with a stated intention to close all 254 of its stores and unload its inventory. Specifically,…

Source: Google Trends The Signal: In 2019, TikTok became the second-most downloaded app in the world (after WhatsApp). The social app clocked more than 700m downloads (w/ $177m in revenue) last year. Around November of 2019, the Google search trend for "TikTok lights" began…