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Automatically analyze a company or company-related finance situation from a short user prompt such as a company name, "analyze [company]," M&A, LBO, IPO, debt, credit, or risk requests. Use when an agent must infer the correct valuation and finance framework without asking follow-up questions, begin from market-implied expectations instead of immediate fair value, run Reverse DCF before Forward DCF for listed companies, perform web-verified data gathering and deal-radar checks, defend against hallucinations with explicit data tags and uncertainty statements, and produce a plain-text output with no markdown and no row-column tables.

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Company Analysis

Overview

Use this skill to produce an IB-style investment analysis from minimal user input. Start from what the current price already implies, not from a fair-value claim, and force every valuation conclusion through verified data, explicit assumptions, and expectation decomposition.

Quick Start

  • If the user provides only a company name or a short prompt such as "[Company] analyze," do not ask clarifying questions. Infer the company type and run the most appropriate workflow immediately.
  • For listed companies, always define the Narrative first and run Reverse DCF before Forward DCF.
  • Run web research before using any revenue, profit, debt, market cap, or transaction figure.
  • Read references/analysis-orchestration.md for routing logic and framework selection.
  • Read references/data-integrity-and-deal-radar.md for hallucination defense and mandatory pre-analysis searches.
  • Read references/output-contract.md for the exact output shape and plain-text rules.

Core Workflow

1. Route the request automatically

  • Infer the requested analysis from the prompt without follow-up questions.
  • Use the default listed-company stack when the intent is ambiguous: Narrative, Reverse DCF, Forward DCF, Trading Comps, Sensitivity, and So What.
  • Use the framework-routing rules in references/analysis-orchestration.md.

2. Gather and tag data before modeling

  • Search the web for actual disclosed financial data before using any revenue, earnings, debt, or valuation number.
  • Tag every number as [Actual], [Estimated], or [Assumption].
  • Never label a number as [Actual] unless the underlying source has been verified and cited.
  • State uncertainty explicitly whenever the data is unavailable, stale, private, disputed, or not yet reported.

3. Run Deal Radar before valuation

  • Search for pending M&A, subsidiary or parent transactions, competitor deals, regulatory or antitrust issues, activism or breakup pressure, and major shareholder ownership changes.
  • Distinguish rumor, official announcement, and active regulatory review.
  • Include only web-verified items with cited sources.

4. Start from Narrative and Expectations

  • Define the story the market is pricing into the current stock or enterprise value.
  • Translate that story into growth, margin, and reinvestment expectations.
  • Run Reverse DCF before any Forward DCF for listed companies.
  • Test whether the implied expectations are realistic relative to industry structure and operating history.

5. Run the relevant framework stack

  • Use DCF on an FCFF basis when the business supports a cash-flow view and the data is sufficient.
  • Use Trading Comps to interpret compressed expectations through multiples, not as a standalone verdict.
  • Use SOTP for holding companies, conglomerates, or businesses with clearly separable segments.
  • Use Sensitivity and Scenario Analysis for all major valuation outputs.
  • Use M&A, LBO, IPO, Credit, or Operating Model frameworks when the prompt directly calls for them.

6. Translate valuation into decision language

  • State what the current price requires, not just what your model says.
  • Quantify the growth CAGR, EBIT margin, and reinvestment rate needed to justify the current price when the expectation gap matters.
  • If your implied value and the current market value differ by more than 30 percent, mark it as caution and explain why.

7. Output in the required format

  • Do not use markdown.
  • Do not use row-column tables.
  • Use the required plain-text block order defined in references/output-contract.md.

Mandatory Rules

  • Do not ask clarifying questions before producing the analysis.
  • Do not fabricate data, comps, transactions, or deal rumors.
  • Do not skip Reverse DCF for listed companies.
  • Do not output unsupported certainty when the underlying information is incomplete.
  • Do not present a fair value first and expectations second.

Guardrails

  • If disclosed financial data cannot be found, say so clearly and explain that the user can provide direct inputs for a more accurate model.
  • If you switch into a hypothetical scenario, mark it as a non-actual example scenario.
  • If peer multiples or transaction data cannot be verified, state that Bloomberg, Capital IQ, or equivalent verification is needed.
  • If private-company financials are not disclosed, state the uncertainty instead of backfilling missing numbers as facts.