Using AI for fundamental stock analysis
Short answer: How to use AI for fundamental analysis: reading filings, building ratios, spotting accounting red flags and writing a bear case. Not advice.
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Fundamentals in one paragraph
Fundamental analysis estimates what a business is worth from its earnings, cash flows, balance sheet and prospects. AI speeds the reading and arithmetic; the judgment about the future remains yours.
Step 1: feed it primary documents
Upload the latest 10-K and 10-Q. Ask: 'Summarize how the company makes money by segment, with the page numbers.' Page references let you verify. Avoid asking from memory, since a model may recall stale or wrong numbers. For a feel of the work, take free cash flow. Operating cash flow minus capital expenditure, both on the cash flow statement. If a company reports growing profit but free cash flow is flat for four years because spending climbs, ask the AI to explain the gap with page references to the notes. The reconciliation between accounting profit and cash is often where the most useful questions come from.
Step 2: compute the standards
Ask for revenue growth, gross and operating margins, free cash flow, return on invested capital, net debt over EBITDA and share count change over five years, shown with the formulas and source lines. Recompute two of them by hand. Finally, record your valuation range and the date, then revisit it after each quarterly report. Comparing your earlier estimate with what happened teaches you which assumptions you habitually get wrong.
Step 3: hunt for red flags
Prompts: 'Compare receivables growth with revenue growth', 'List changes in accounting policies', 'What is in the footnotes about related parties, off-balance-sheet items or customer concentration?' Aggressive revenue recognition often hides in these.
Step 4: value it with ranges
Ask for a simple discounted cash flow with three scenarios and display all assumptions. Notice how sensitive the answer is to the discount rate and terminal growth. A wide range is an honest result. Have the AI argue against owning it, then respond in writing. Educational only, not financial advice. Estimates can be wrong and investments can lose value.
Where Freeborn Labs fits
Freeborn Labs sets up and runs a private AI in your own cloud account so your filings, notes and models stay with you. Setup is $10,000, then $48,000 a year up front or $4,800 a month; compute at cost.
The analyst's workflow, owned
A $20 ChatGPT subscription is fine for walking through one company's ratios. A fundamental analyst covers many, and repeatedly runs the same tasks: pull segments, recompute free cash flow, scan footnotes, compare to peers, draft a bear case. Public assistants limit context, hedge on valuation, and may drift in format when the vendor updates the model, which breaks templates. A competitor with a private assistant can store every filing, a house template and past models in their own account, instruct it to be blunt about weak assumptions and rerun the same checklist across a whole sector. Their research notes stay out of a public vendor's logs. Rivals on public tools tend to lose time chunking filings, re-pasting templates and double-checking inconsistent outputs, while earnings arrive. The advantage is hours and depth on the exact tasks fundamentals need, not better returns. Valuations are estimates, mistakes happen and nothing is promised. Treat any such time saving as a practical convenience that depends on how carefully you set the tool up and check its work.
Questions
Where do I get filings?
The SEC's EDGAR database is free and official.
Can AI value a stock for me?
It can build a model from your assumptions, but the assumptions drive the result.
Should I trust its ratios?
Verify them against the statements, at least on the first few uses.
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