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User GuideCase Studies

Getting Started

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Quickly Identify the Story Behind the Stock Chart

Open Companies in the left navigation and pick a name to reach its company page. The case study there is a comprehensive quarterly analysis — news summaries, earnings recaps, and qualitative insight into results and guidance — alongside a Company Primer detailing how the business makes money and a Supply Chain view of its suppliers, customers, and competitors. It is built for rapid context-building: get up to speed on a name quickly, then develop a research plan to dive deeper.

A company Case Study with quarterly analysis A company Case Study with quarterly analysis

The Company Primer explains how the business makes money.

A Company Primer detailing the business model A Company Primer detailing the business model

Getting Started

Select a company from Companies, then use Viewing Quarter and the time-period filters at the top of the screen to move through its history.

Quarter by Quarter, Portrait generates a News Summary, Earnings Recap, and identifies Key Debates driving a stock

  • Key Debates
  • Portrait uses conference call transcripts and the news to identify the key tension points that investors are focused on.
  • The system identifies a tension point, and renders an unbiased Bull and Bear take for each respective debate.
    • Key Debates evolve over time - this helps tell the story of the most topical items driving business operations and stock trends.
  • Timeline
  • Portrait reads the news and distills key events into a focused, quarter-by-quarter summary
  • Earnings Recap
  • Earnings recaps offer a detailed, company-specific view of company results.
  • Quarterly Story
  • A narrative walkthrough of how the quarter unfolded, tying the events and results together.

Within each tab, you can open the source documents Portrait used to generate that content — each opens in a reading panel where it can be reviewed or searched. See Company Documents.

The Supply Chain panel maps the company's suppliers, customers, and competitors, so you can follow a thesis out along the value chain. It is available for widely-covered companies.