| name | comp-sheet |
| description | Build an industry comp sheet Excel model with deep operational KPIs |
| argument-hint | TICKER |
Build a multi-company industry comp sheet Excel model for the company specified by the user: $ARGUMENTS
This produces an interactive .xlsx workbook — the kind of comp sheet every analyst on a coverage team maintains. Multi-company, multi-tab, with deep operational KPIs alongside standard financials.
Before starting, read data-access.md for data access methods and design-system.md for formatting conventions. Follow the data access detection logic and design system throughout this skill.
Follow these steps:
1. Company & Peer Setup
Look up the target company by ticker using discover_companies. Capture company_id, latest_calendar_quarter (anchor for all period calculations — see data-access.md Section 1.5), and latest_fiscal_quarter. Note the firm name for report attribution (default: "Daloopa") — see data-access.md Section 4.5.
Then identify 6-10 comparable companies using the same logic as /comps:
- Direct competitors in the same market
- Business model peers (similar revenue model)
- Size peers (similar market cap range)
- Growth profile peers (similar growth rate)
Look up all peer company_ids via Daloopa. If a peer isn't available in Daloopa, include it with market data only and note the limitation.
List the full peer group with brief justification for each.
2. Deep Data Gathering
For each company (target + all peers), pull from Daloopa:
Calculate 8 quarters backward from latest_calendar_quarter. Pull financials:
- Revenue, Gross Profit, Operating Income, Net Income, Diluted EPS
- Operating Cash Flow, Capital Expenditures, D&A
- Free Cash Flow (compute as OCF - CapEx)
- R&D Expense, SG&A (where available)
Segment revenue breakdown (all available segments, 8 quarters)
Company-specific operational KPIs — use the 9-sector taxonomy to know what to search for:
- SaaS/Cloud: ARR, net revenue retention, RPO/cRPO, customers >$100K, cloud gross margin
- Consumer Tech: DAU/MAU, ARPU, engagement metrics, installed base, paid subscribers
- E-commerce/Marketplace: GMV, take rate, active buyers/sellers, order frequency
- Retail: same-store sales, store count, average ticket, transactions
- Telecom/Media: subscribers, churn, ARPU, content spend
- Hardware: units shipped, ASP, attach rate, installed base
- Financial Services: AUM, NIM, loan growth, credit quality metrics, fee income ratio
- Pharma/Biotech: pipeline stage, patient starts, scripts, market share
- Industrials/Energy: backlog, book-to-bill, utilization, production volumes, reserves
Stock prices & valuation multiples:
Use get_stock_prices (see data-access.md Section 1.7) to pull prices for ALL companies in a single batch call. Get:
- Current price:
dates = 3 most recent calendar days for all company_ids
- Quarter-end prices:
dates = quarter-end dates matching the financial periods (for historical multiples)
Then compute valuation metrics by combining stock prices with Daloopa fundamentals:
- Market Cap = Close price × Diluted shares outstanding
- Enterprise Value = Market Cap + Total Debt - Cash
- P/E (trailing) = Market Cap / Net Income (trailing 4Q)
- EV/EBITDA = EV / EBITDA (trailing 4Q)
- P/S = Market Cap / Revenue (trailing 4Q)
- P/B = Market Cap / Total Equity
- EV/FCF = EV / Free Cash Flow (trailing 4Q)
- FCF Yield = FCF (trailing 4Q) / Market Cap
- Dividend Yield = Dividends Paid (trailing 4Q) / Market Cap
For beta, use MCP market data tools if available, otherwise web search (see data-access.md Section 2). For forward multiples, use consensus estimates if available (Section 3).
3. KPI Discovery & Mapping
After pulling data, build the KPI mapping:
- Which KPIs are available for which companies? Build a coverage matrix.
- Group KPIs into categories:
- Segment Revenue: product/service line breakdowns
- Growth KPIs: subscriber growth, unit growth, same-store sales growth
- Unit Economics: ARPU, ASP, take rate, retention
- Efficiency: R&D % of revenue, SBC % of revenue, CapEx % of revenue
- Engagement: DAU/MAU, retention, churn
- Flag KPIs that are comparable across peers vs company-specific
4. Compute Derived Metrics
For each company, calculate:
Margins:
- Gross Margin, Operating Margin, Net Margin, FCF Margin (each quarter)
Growth rates:
- Revenue YoY, EPS YoY, segment revenue YoY (each quarter where year-ago data exists)
Capital metrics:
- Net Debt (Total Debt - Cash)
- Net Debt/EBITDA
- Shareholder Yield (Buybacks + Dividends) / Market Cap
Historical multiples (from quarter-end prices pulled in Section 2):
- Compute P/E, EV/EBITDA, P/S, EV/FCF at each quarter-end to show how multiples have trended
- This lets the reader see whether the current multiple is elevated or depressed vs. the company's own history
Implied valuation:
- For each valuation methodology (P/E, EV/EBITDA, P/S, EV/FCF):
- Peer median multiple × target metric = implied value
- Convert to implied share price
- Compute median implied price across methodologies
5. Structure the Data
Organize the gathered data as a multi-company dataset in memory, ready to feed the workbook builder in the next step:
{
"target_ticker": "AAPL",
"as_of_date": "YYYY-MM-DD",
"companies": [
{
"ticker": "AAPL",
"name": "Apple Inc.",
"is_target": true,
"market_data": {
"price": ..., "market_cap": ..., "enterprise_value": ...,
"shares_outstanding": ..., "beta": ...,
"trailing_pe": ..., "forward_pe": ...,
"ev_ebitda": ..., "price_to_sales": ...,
"ev_fcf" ... ...
...
... ...
... ...
... ... ...
... ... ...
... ... ...
...
...more companies...
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...
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Every datapoint that originates from Daloopa must carry its fundamental_id alongside the value so the hyperlink can be attached when the workbook is built.
6. Build the Workbook
Generate a React artifact that uses the SheetJS (xlsx) library to build and download the .xlsx workbook client-side. The artifact should construct the workbook from the structured data above and trigger a download when the user clicks a button (or immediately on load).
!!! MANDATORY EXCEL DATAPOINT HYPERLINK FORMAT !!!
- ALWAYS attach a cell hyperlink when writing Daloopa fundamental datapoints into a worksheet cell
- Format: $
- Example: write
123.4 to cell B5 and set its link (cell.l = { Target: "https://daloopa.com/src/71667434" } in SheetJS) so it points to the source
- Every Daloopa-sourced numeric cell MUST include its clickable source link — do not put the URL in a neighboring cell or as plain text
- Do NOT add datapoint hyperlinks to headers, labels, blank cells, or unsourced formulas
The workbook must have 8 tabs (sheets), built in this order:
- Comp Summary — one-pager with all companies, multiples, implied valuation
- Revenue Drivers — unit economics decomposition per company (trailing 4Q)
- Operating KPIs — cross-company KPI comparison matrix
- Financial Summary — side-by-side income statements (trailing 4Q)
- Growth & Margins — trend analysis (up to 8Q)
- Valuation Detail — implied prices by methodology, premium/discount
- Balance Sheet & Capital — leverage and capital returns
- Raw Data — full quarterly appendix for each company
Use SheetJS formulas (e.g. cell.f) where the original design calls for computed values (margins, growth rates, implied valuation) so the workbook stays live and auditable, rather than hardcoding pre-computed numbers.
7. Output
Confirm to the user that the .xlsx workbook has downloaded from the artifact.
Highlight in your summary:
- Target positioning vs peers: Where does it rank on growth, margins, and valuation?
- Most differentiated KPIs: Which operational metrics set the target apart (positive or negative)?
- Implied valuation range: What does the peer group suggest the stock is worth?
- Key risk: What's the biggest vulnerability the comp sheet reveals (e.g., premium valuation with decelerating KPIs, margins below peers, etc.)?
All financial figures in the summary must use Daloopa citation format: $X.XX million
