Methodology update: factor-category set
The public methodology now names categories while exact model parameters stay server-side.
What changed
Veridion aligned the public methodology, stock score card, Learn library, email copy, and score engine to one canonical factor-category set.
- Valuation
- Hype
- Momentum
- Earnings
- Analyst rating
- Sentiment
The public methodology page at /methodology is the source for the user-facing description. Exact weights, thresholds, and normalization parameters are no longer published.
Why it changed
The prior public rendering showed an older factor mix on several surfaces. That created a methodology-integrity problem: the product could show one recipe while the score engine used another.
The update removes that mismatch. The score card, methodology page, Learn articles, newsletter copy, and tests now point to the same public category set.
What it means for old snapshots
Historical score snapshots remain tagged by their snapshot date and methodology context. A score from an older day should be read as the score that existed on that day.
Current score pages use the server-side model. When a factor has no usable data, the factor is still dropped from the composite rather than filled with zero. The confidence badge remains the coverage readout.
What did not change
The public five-band vocabulary did not change. The missing-data rule did not change. The evidence page still drops incomplete forward-return rows rather than filling them.
No internal thresholds, edge-case handlers, or normalization details are published in this note. The public layer describes what the score measures, not the private implementation.
Not financial advice. Just receipts.