William Weidman

Applied Predictive Technologies, Inc. provides cloud-based predictive analytics software solutions. Its products include APT Index, APT Illuminate, engage, category management insights, market basket analyzer, network planner, and space planning optimizer. The firm serves to the airlines, automotive, hotels, insurance, retail, technology and telecom industries. The company was founded in 1999 by Anthony Bruce, James J. Manzi and Scott H. Setrakian and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Criterion Research Group LLC is an independent research firm headquartered in New York City. They provide research based on their proprietary earnings quality accrual model and additional quantitative and qualitative screens developed by Criterion and Wharton accounting Professor Scott Richardson. Accruals are management's estimates of future cash flows and expenses that increase earnings and often turn out to be wrong due to error or management's prerogative to increase earnings. Criterion's accrual model quantifies the accrual component of the earnings of more than 5,000 public US companies (the CRG 5000) and sorts these companies into ten accrual categories within the CRG 5000 and the S&P 500. Companies in the 10th accrual decile have the highest accrual and lowest cash components to their earnings, and companies in the 1st accrual decile have the lowest accrual and highest cash components to their earnings