YCharts.com has named Jeff Bailey as its editor, as the investor-information company moves to rapidly expand its news and content offerings.
Bailey is a former editor, columnist and reporter at the Wall Street Journal, where he spent 20 years, and also worked as a staff financial reporter at the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. He was also the editor of Crain’s Chicago Business, and has written for national business and general-interest magazines.
“Jeff brings deep financial journalism experience and the ability to produce sophisticated business coverage to our company,” said Shawn Carpenter, founder and CEO of YCharts. “He has been acting as our editor on a consulting basis since 2010, and now will work full-time to lead our expansion of content to better serve the more than 400,000 investors who visit YCharts each month. Bringing Jeff aboard shows how serious we are about delivering smart content.”
YCharts closed a second round of funding in December, a move that will allow the company to accelerate its already-rapid growth since its founding in 2009. YCharts offers investors the easiest-to-use charting software on the web for more than 5,000 publicly-traded stocks and scores of economic indicators. Most of this data is free to users, and subscribers get access to an even more in-depth data set. Morningstar is among YCharts’ major investors.
YCharts’ daily email includes an investment-focused article, illustrated with YCharts data, and is syndicated across the web and published by the likes of Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, Forbes.com, SeekingAlpha, Motley Fool and others. The content and use of charts from YCharts is also available to newspapers and other financial publications for online or printed distribution.
“As a financial journalist for three decades, I’ve been stunned at how easy to use and comprehensive YCharts is. Seeing so much data in chart form really accelerates your understanding of a company or industry, and its prospects,” Bailey said. “For the millions of individual investors who choose to make their own investment decisions – and for the professionals who serve them – YCharts makes rational comparisons and smart decisions a lot easier.”
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