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Long-term picture (stocks-llm)

The Long-term picture is stocks-llm’s one-glance reading of a company: business quality, price next to fundamentals, long-run trend and cash returned to shareholders, each scored out of 10 from the published Top 10 method.

Every company the Top 10 method scores opens its page with four rows. Business quality combines the method’s profitability, growth and financial-health pillars, weighted exactly as the method weights them. Price vs fundamentals is the valuation pillar, long-run trend is the trend pillar and cash returned to shareholders is the capital-return pillar.

Each score out of 10 is the tenth of the field the company sits in: 7/10 means its pillar percentile is above 60 and at most 70 among the companies it is compared with (covered US companies, or its sector for measures the method compares within a sector). Words go with the bands: strong (80 and up), above average, middle of the pack, below average and weak (under 20).

One sentence then says how quality and price combine (for example "a strong business, but the price already asks a lot of it") and which way the long-run trend points, and a short list says what would change the picture: the weakest input behind the strongest pillar, the P/E against its sector, the price against its 200-day average, the next results date and the risks the company lists in its own filing. It reads published data; it is not a recommendation.

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Related terms

  • Earnings per share (EPS) — Earnings per share (EPS) is a company’s net profit divided by its shares outstanding — the profit attributable to each single share.
  • Earnings surprise and the reaction — An earnings surprise is how far a company’s reported profit landed from the analyst forecast; the reaction is what its share price actually did afterwards — and the two disagree far more often than people expect.
  • Net profit margin — Net profit margin is the share of every revenue dollar a company keeps as bottom-line profit, after all costs, interest, and taxes.
  • Gross margin — Gross margin is the share of revenue left after the direct cost of producing a company’s goods or services.
  • Operating margin — Operating margin is the share of revenue a company keeps as operating profit, after production costs and operating expenses but before interest and taxes.

See more terms in the stocks-llm glossary.

Informational only — NOT financial advice. This is an educational definition, not a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Metrics on stocks-llm are delayed data and may be missing or stale. Always verify information independently and consult a qualified financial professional before making any investment decision.