Price Prediction and Recommendation Using Sentimental Analysis and Machine Learning

Abstract

The stock market is influenced by both quantitative indicators and qualitative factors such as public sentiment reflected in financial news and media. Traditional prediction approaches mainly depend on historical price data and often fail to capture sudden market movements driven by external information. This paper presents a hybrid framework that integrates sentiment analysis with deep learning techniques for stock price prediction. Sentiment scores are extracted from news data using natural language processing methods and combined with historical stock prices to form a unified dataset. A hybrid Convolutional Neural Network–Long Short-Term Memory (CNN-LSTM) model is employed to capture both feature-level patterns and temporal dependencies. In addition, the system provides investment recommendations in the form of Buy, Sell, or Hold decisions based on predicted values. Experimental observations indicate that incorporating sentiment information enhances prediction accuracy and improves decision-making support for investors, as supported by recent studies [1], [2].

Introduction

This paper proposes a hybrid stock price prediction system that combines sentiment analysis with a CNN-LSTM deep learning model to improve forecasting accuracy and generate investment recommendations.

Background

Predicting stock prices is difficult because financial markets are influenced by many factors, including economic conditions, company performance, global events, and investor sentiment. Traditional prediction methods mainly rely on historical market data and often fail to capture real-time market behavior. Research has shown that sentiment extracted from social media and financial news can significantly influence stock prices and improve prediction performance when combined with machine learning techniques.

Literature Review

Early studies demonstrated that public sentiment from platforms such as Twitter can predict stock market trends. Later research integrated sentiment analysis with machine learning, achieving better results than traditional statistical methods. Deep learning models such as CNNs and LSTMs further improved forecasting by capturing complex patterns and temporal dependencies in stock data. More recently, transformer-based models like BERT have enhanced sentiment analysis through better contextual understanding of financial text.

Research Gap

Most existing systems either:

• Use only historical stock data, or
• Apply sentiment analysis separately from prediction models.

There is a need for an integrated framework that combines both sentiment information and advanced deep learning techniques.

Proposed System

The proposed system addresses this gap by integrating:

1. Sentiment Analysis of financial news using Natural Language Processing (NLP).
2. CNN-LSTM Hybrid Model for stock price prediction.

The system:

• Collects stock market and news data.
• Extracts sentiment scores from financial news.
• Processes the data and feeds it into a CNN-LSTM network.
• Predicts future stock prices.
• Generates Buy, Sell, or Hold investment recommendations.

Advantages

Compared to traditional systems, the proposed approach offers:

• Higher prediction accuracy.
• Real-time sentiment integration.
• Better handling of market volatility.
• Actionable investment recommendations.

Methodology

The workflow includes:

1. Data collection.
2. Sentiment extraction from financial news.
3. Data preprocessing.
4. CNN-LSTM model training.
5. Stock price prediction.
6. Recommendation generation.

CNN layers extract important features from the data, while LSTM layers capture time-dependent patterns in stock price movements.

Results

The model's predicted stock prices closely follow actual market values, indicating strong performance. The integration of sentiment analysis significantly improves prediction accuracy, while deep learning enables the system to capture complex market patterns more effectively than traditional approaches.

Conclusion

This paper presents a hybrid approach for stock price prediction by integrating sentiment analysis with deep learning techniques. The CNN-LSTM model effectively captures both numerical and sentiment-based patterns, resulting in improved prediction accuracy. The findings are consistent with previous research highlighting the importance of sentiment analysis and deep learning in financial forecasting [1]–[4].

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Copyright

Copyright © 2026 P. Hema Sri, SK. KhajaVali, G. Akhila, N. Sai Dahari, D. Sunil Kumar. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.