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We ran 200+ live earnings forecasts against Wall Street and came out on top, 158–54.
We believe this marks an inflection point for investment agents. They’re starting to spot drivers of business performance the Street overlooked.
Here’s what we found 🧵
We believe this marks an inflection point for investment agents. They’re starting to spot drivers of business performance the Street overlooked.
Here’s what we found 🧵
Can AI forecast earnings better than Wall Street pros?View quoted post on X
In this new blog post, we show that AI agents can forecast earnings per share (EPS) better than the Wall Street consensus by reasoning about business fundamentals
EPS is one of the most important metrics about public companies, and the Wall Street consensus comes from expert sell-side analysts
But: the Street consensus systematically underestimates real EPS, so a simple heuristic like increasing the Street number by 5% would do well too
Our key finding is that AI agents outperform the Street consensus by *understanding* the business fundamentals, and making adjustments to the financial models that are company-specific
So not just a cheap heuristic
I think this is some of the first serious evidence that AI can really understand company finance well enough to make decent forecasts
Most of the work done by the fantastic @mishhman
fundamentalresearchlabs.com/research/intro…