Comparable Company Analysis with AI
Build trading and transaction comps in minutes, not days. Compound pulls financials from filings and market data, calculates EV/EBITDA, P/E, and other multiples as real formulas, and cites every input back to its source.
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How Comparable Company Analysis Works
Define your comp set
Name the comparable companies or precedent transactions, or upload filings and deal announcements. Compound reads the financials it needs from each source and public market data.
Choose your multiples
Tell the AI Analyst which multiples to build: EV/EBITDA, EV/Revenue, P/E, EV/EBIT, or your own metrics. Specify calendarization, LTM vs forward, and any adjustments you want applied.
Get a cited comps table in Excel
Receive a structured comps table with each multiple as a real formula, plus enterprise value bridges, operating metrics, and summary statistics. Every input cites the source filing or market data.
Why Building Comps Is Still Tedious
Comps tables look simple, but assembling one that ties out means pulling numbers from dozens of filings and reconciling them into a consistent, defensible format.
Financials scattered across filings
Building a comp set means opening a 10-K or 10-Q for each company, finding revenue, EBITDA, share count, and debt, and copying them into your table, repeated for every name in the set.
Enterprise value bridges by hand
Every company needs its own EV build: market cap plus debt, minority interest, and preferred, less cash. Getting each bridge right across the whole set is slow and easy to fumble.
Adjustments and calendarization
Comparable companies have different fiscal year-ends and one-time items. Calendarizing to a common period and normalizing for non-recurring charges is manual work that determines whether the comps are actually comparable.
No audit trail on the numbers
When a managing director or client questions a multiple, you need to show where each input came from. In a hand-built table, tracing a number back to the right page of the right filing is painful.
Why Compound Excels at Comparable Company Analysis
Multiples as real formulas
EV/EBITDA, P/E, EV/Revenue, and the enterprise value bridge behind them all come as live Excel formulas. Change an input or add a company and the table recalculates cleanly.
Every input cited to its filing
Each financial figure links to the exact page in the source 10-K, 10-Q, or deal announcement, so you can defend any multiple in a pitch or an IC meeting with a single click.
Filings and market data together
Compound reads the fundamentals from filings and combines them with public market data for prices and share counts, so the comp set is built from real sources, not manual re-keying.
From filings and market data to a comps table
What you can upload
- 10-Ks, 10-Qs, and annual reports
- Deal announcements and merger proxies
- Public market prices and share counts
- Your own comp set list or template
What Compound produces
- Trading and transaction comps tables
- Enterprise value bridges as formulas
- EV/EBITDA, P/E, and other multiples
- Summary statistics with cited inputs
Why teams switch from manual comps and terminal exports
For comps that reach a client or committee, formulas and traceability matter as much as speed.
Pulling financials for the set
- Manual build
- Open each filing by hand
- Terminal exports
- Vendor definitions, limited detail
- Compound
- Reads financials across all filings
Enterprise value bridges
- Manual build
- Build each one manually
- Terminal exports
- Pre-computed, hard to adjust
- Compound
- EV bridges as real formulas
Multiple calculations
- Manual build
- Wire formulas yourself
- Terminal exports
- Export values, rebuild in Excel
- Compound
- EV/EBITDA, P/E, and more as formulas
Calendarization and adjustments
- Manual build
- Normalize by hand
- Terminal exports
- Fixed methodology
- Compound
- Calendarize and adjust on request
Source traceability
- Manual build
- Manual footnotes
- Terminal exports
- Vendor code, not the filing
- Compound
- Citations to the source filing
Built for teams that live in comps
Investment Banking
Build trading and transaction comps for pitch books and fairness opinions. Standardize the comp set, calculate multiples as formulas, and cite every figure to the filing behind it.
Private Equity
Benchmark a target against public comps and precedent transactions during diligence. Get a clean multiples table you can extend with your own adjustments and scenarios.
Equity Research
Maintain comp sets across your coverage universe. Update multiples as new filings and prices come in, with cited sources for every line so the table holds up under scrutiny.
Hedge Funds
Screen for relative value across a peer group. Build comps on the fly, calculate multiples with real formulas, and drill into any input to see exactly where it came from.
Pick your comp set and get a comps table in minutes
Frequently Asked Questions
Compound builds EV/EBITDA, EV/Revenue, EV/EBIT, P/E, price-to-book, and custom multiples you define. Each one is a real Excel formula built on top of the underlying financials and enterprise value bridge.
Compound reads fundamentals directly from filings (10-Ks, 10-Qs, and deal documents) and combines them with public market data for prices and share counts. Every input is cited to its source.
Yes. Compound builds each company's EV bridge (market cap plus debt, minority interest, and preferred, less cash) as real formulas, so you can see and adjust every component.
Yes. Point Compound at precedent transactions or upload deal announcements and merger proxies, and it builds a transaction comps table with deal multiples, cited to the source documents.
Yes. Compound can calendarize companies with different fiscal year-ends to a common period and normalize for one-time items so the comp set is genuinely comparable.
Real Excel formulas. Multiples, EV bridges, and summary statistics are all live, so you can add a company, change an assumption, or extend the analysis and the table recalculates.
Terminal comps functions give you vendor-defined values that are hard to adjust and hard to trace. Compound builds the comps in your own Excel with real formulas and citations back to the actual filings, so you can customize the methodology and defend every number.
Yes. Upload your standard comps template and Compound populates it, matching your layout, line item order, and formatting so the output drops straight into your pitch book or model.
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