Of 60 answers

The most named companies in the study, and S&P 500 financials, with how many of their 60 AI answers named them.

SWIFT47/60TRANSUNION46/60EXPERIAN42/60COINSTAR41/60NAVY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION41/60ZELLE41/60BLOOMBERG L.P.38/60TRADINGVIEW38/60BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO37/60PAYPAL37/60VENMO37/60CHEXSYSTEMS33/60EQUIFAX33/60MORNINGSTAR32/60S&P GLOBAL31/60ALPACA MARKETS30/60COINBASE30/60PINWHEEL29/60STRIPE29/60XERO29/60ACORNS28/60AFFIRM28/60PAYFAST (PAYGATE)28/60PAYONEER28/60INTERACTIVE BROKERS26/60CHARLES SCHWAB19/60THE HARTFORD9/60MOODY'S21/60CME GROUP19/60ACCENTURE11/60CHUBB10/60MORGAN STANLEY6/60AMERICAN EXPRESS14/60SYNCHRONY FINANCIAL12/60FACTSET20/60NASDAQ19/60ALLSTATE11/60WELLS FARGO18/60PAYCHEX10/60ARES MANAGEMENT3/60
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AI visibility statementFinance AI Visibility Study 2026Issued October 14, 2026
Account holder

Benzinga

benzinga.com

Research, news and mediaAdvisers and services

Money20/20 attendee

Statement period
October 9 to 14, 2026
when the AI assistants were asked
Account no.
223 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
8th of 73 research and media companies
Closing balance

Named in

14of 60 answers

by 4 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Benzinga

AI assistants name Benzinga in 23.3% of their answers, much more often than the typical company in its sector. Its overall score is 40 out of 100, ranking 223rd of 2,219 companies. The website passes 3 out of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Benzinga by name. AI assistants named it in 14 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 13th of 346 in its sector. The typical advisory or services firm is named in 0.0% of answers.

Overall score
40Overall score
  • Visibility23
  • Citations2
  • Sentiment88
  • Site quality80
  • AI readiness21
Summary of account
Named by AI in
23.3%
14 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
24.1%
of the mentions of it and its 5 peers
AI readiness
3/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 4
Rank in its sector
21 of 346
by overall score, where the typical advisory or services firm scores 27

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Line itemsSection 01

Every question, and where the company came up

Benzinga came up on 8 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01Top research tools for actionable trading ideas in the US2/4
  2. 02What causes lag in real-time stock market news services?0/4
  3. 03Best ways to combine news, market quotes, and research for swing trading2/4
  4. 04Are there affordable options for real-time trading idea services?2/4
  5. 05Are real-time news feeds necessary for short-term stock traders?0/4
  6. 06How much do stock research platforms typically cost per month in the US?1/4
  7. 07Differences between financial news aggregators and professional stock research platforms2/4
  8. 08Comparing live market news services vs. traditional financial analysis1/4
  9. 09How do financial professionals use actionable trading ideas in their day-to-day workflow?0/4
  10. 10What are some options for active traders seeking real-time stock insights besides news sites?1/4
  11. 11Alternatives to US-based financial news platforms for professional investors0/4
  12. 12Best financial news platforms for getting real-time stock market updates3/4
  13. 13Is upgrading to a premium trading research platform worth it for active investors?0/4
  14. 14Low-cost alternatives to premium stock market research platforms0/4
  15. 15Why am I not receiving instant alerts on my financial news dashboard?0/4
Total namedOpenAI: 4/15Claude: 5/15Perplexity: 2/15Gemini: 3/15All assistants: 14/60
named the companyanswered without naming itdid not answer

Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. Across the study, on 50% of the questions where a company is named, only one AI assistant names it.

Transaction detailSection 02

What Claude actually said

An answer that names the company

Claudenamed the company

“Best financial news platforms for getting real-time stock market updates”

I'll search for information about the best financial news platforms for real-time stock market updates.Here are the best financial news platforms for getting real-time stock market updates:

Premium/Professional Platforms

Benzinga Pro is the fastest real-time financial news platform available to retail investors and has been the preferred information tool for active traders for over a decade.

Bloomberg is the leading reporting platform for professionals and serious investors, delivering real-time market data, breaking updates, and in-depth analysis across stocks, bonds, commoditie …

The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.

PayeesSection 03

Where the mentions went

The companies these answers named, and how the mentions were split between this company and its peers.

Also named

CompanyTimes named
  1. 01
    Seeking Alpha
    13
  2. 02
    Yahoo Finance
    6
  3. 03
    MarketWatch
    4
  4. 04
    Investing.com
    3
  5. 05
    The Motley Fool
    1

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. Seeking Alpha
    36.2%
  2. Benzinga
    24.1%
  3. Yahoo Finance
    19.0%
  4. MarketWatch
    8.6%
  5. Investing.com
    6.9%
  6. The Motley Fool
    5.2%
ReferrersSection 04

Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

  1. 01
    liberatedstocktrader.com
    12
  2. 02
    ecommerceparadise.com
    10
  3. 03
    youngandtheinvested.com
    7
  4. 04
    worldmetrics.org
    6
  5. 05
    visualping.io
    6
  6. 06
    en.wikipedia.org
    6
  7. 07
    bloomberg.com
    6
  8. 08
    wallstreetzen.com
    6
  9. 09
    stockbrokers.com
    5
  10. 10
    traderhq.com
    4

Benzinga is in the study as a research or media company.

By assistantSection 05

Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Claude
5/15
OpenAI
4/15
Gemini
3/15
Perplexity
2/15
Market comparisonSection 06

How Benzinga compares with all 2,219 companies

Every tower is a company in the study, taller for a higher overall score and lit where AI assistants named it. Its own group stays lit. Hover a tower to see it, and click to open it.

What makes up the score

Each part is scored out of 100.

Visibility
23

How often AI assistants name the company, and how that compares with its peers

Citations
2

How often AI uses the company's own website as a source

Sentiment
88

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
80

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
21

How easily AI tools can read and use the website

Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.

Against its sectorSection 07

Compared with advisory and services firms

346 companies in this sector. The gold tick on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score
40
Ranks 21 of 346. Typical company: 27
Named in answers
23.3%
Ranks 13 of 346. Typical company: 0.0%
AI readiness
21
Ranks 228 of 346. Typical company: 29
Against its categorySection 08

Compared with research and media companies

73 companies in this category. The gold tick on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score
40
Ranks 8 of 73. Typical company: 31
Named in answers
23.3%
Ranks 6 of 73. Typical company: 3.3%
AI readiness
21
Ranks 54 of 73. Typical company: 29
AI agentsSection 09

Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and pay through, on a scale of six levels.

  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5

Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.

To reach level 2:
  • Content Signals

The website turns away requests that do not come from a browser. AI agents that say what they are meet the same refusal.

Can an AI agent check out here?

Not by itself. Benzinga publishes none of the agent payment protocols we look for. An agent would have to click through the website like a person.

Agent payment protocols
  • x402Not present
  • MPPNot present
  • AP2Not present
  • ACPNot present
  • UCPNot present
Interfaces for AI agents
  • MCP Server CardNot present
  • A2A Agent CardNot present
  • Agent SkillsNot present
  • API CatalogNot present
  • llms.txtPublished
  • WebMCPCould not check
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
77 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 86.1%
  • SitemapPassed

    An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.

    study: 87.9%
  • Link headersNot met

    Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.

    study: 1.5%
  • DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

    study: 4.3%
Content accessibility
100 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationCould not check

    Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.

    study: 6.2%
  • llms.txtPassed

    An llms.txt that tells language models what the site offers.

    study: 31.0%
Bot access control
32 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPartly met

    Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.

    study: 92.7%
  • Content SignalsNot met

    Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.

    study: 2.3%
  • Web Bot AuthNot present

    Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.

    study: 0.3%
APIs, auth and MCP
0 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

    List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.

    study: 1.3%
  • OAuth discoveryNot met

    Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.

    study: 6.3%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceNot met

    Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

    study: 5.3%
  • auth.mdNot met

    Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.

    study: 0.2%
  • MCP Server CardNot met

    Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.

    study: 0.8%
  • A2A Agent CardNot met

    Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

    study: 0.2%
  • Agent SkillsNot met

    Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.

    study: 1.0%
  • WebMCPCould not check

    Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.

    study: 0.0%
  • ARD manifestNot met

    Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.

    study: 0.2%

Score 41 of 100 · 86% of checks could run · checked on October 9, 2026 · www.benzinga.com · 2,200 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

AI readinessSection 10

The checks behind the AI readiness score

3 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.

These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.

Show the 14 checks

Discoverability

  • Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.1%
  • PassedXML sitemapstudy: 79.4%
  • Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 42.5%

Content Accessibility

  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 7.4%
  • Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 28.1%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 97.3%

Bot Access Control

  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 11.5%

API / Auth / MCP

  • Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 1.1%
  • Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 5.2%
  • Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 4.6%
  • Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.2%
  • Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 0.3%
  • Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.1%
AI crawlersSection 11

What AI crawlers may read (robots.txt)

This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 86% of the websites whose rules we could read. Every AI crawler follows its general rules.

Training AI

  • GPTBotpartly
  • ClaudeBotpartly
  • Anthropic-AIpartly
  • Google-Extendedpartly
  • Applebot-Extendedpartly
  • Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
  • FacebookBotpartly
  • Bytespiderpartly
  • CCBotpartly
  • Diffbotpartly
  • Omgilibotpartly

AI search

  • OAI-SearchBotpartly
  • Claude-SearchBotpartly
  • PerplexityBotpartly
  • Applebotpartly
  • Amazonbotpartly
  • YouBotpartly

Answering questions

  • ChatGPT-Userpartly
  • Claude-Userpartly
  • Perplexity-Userpartly
  • DuckAssistBotpartly
  • MistralAI-Userpartly

Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.

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