Editorial policy
How every page on TickerVerdict is sourced, written, checked and corrected.
Who is responsible
TickerVerdict is published by Abdelali El Amrani, its founder, and operated by Servolia LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company. He decides what is published and answers for its accuracy.
Where the numbers come from
- Company figures come from each company's own filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — annual 10-K and quarterly 10-Q reports — read from the SEC's public XBRL data. Income and cash-flow figures are trailing twelve months, built from the latest annual report plus the year-to-date quarters since. Balance-sheet figures are from the latest reported quarter. How we read a filing.
- Share prices are official exchange closing prices for a named session. Every page and guide states the date of the prices it uses; valuation multiples combine those prices with the filed figures.
- What we do not use: analyst estimates, price targets, ratings from other sites, or data from vendors whose licence does not allow publication. That is why no page shows a forward P/E.
How pages are written
Comparison pages and guides are drafted with the help of an AI model (Anthropic's Claude). The model works only from the page's own data record and is instructed not to compute figures of its own. Each page says how it was made.
Before anything is published, an automated gate runs on every build and blocks it if any of these fail:
- every number in the text must match a figure in that page's data, allowing only for rounding;
- every internal link must point to a page that exists;
- a page must not read like another page — no two pages may share more than a small fraction of their phrasing;
- a comparison must carry enough real data on both companies to say something, or it is not published at all.
When the gate rejects a draft, the draft is not published. Our data covers several hundred company pairs; only the pages that have been individually written and have passed the gate are live.
What we refuse to publish
A number that cannot be interpreted for a given company is left out rather than shown: EV/EBITDA and current ratios for banks, P/E for a company that lost money, a growth rate measured across a loss or a stock split, and any figure from a filer whose statements are not in U.S. dollars. The page says when something was withheld. The full list, with examples, is in the numbers we refuse to print.
Scores and verdicts
The six-factor score is decided by fixed rules applied identically to every company — the same metrics, the same thresholds, no manual adjustments. A factor too close to call is scored as a tie. A factor missing a figure for either company is marked “not scored”, and the page names the missing figure; like a tie, it adds half a point to each company rather than being handed to one. How the score works, and its limits.
Updates
Prices are refreshed about once a month, and company figures when new quarterly filings are processed. When the figures change, the analysis is rewritten from the new data and checked again. Every page shows when it was last updated and the dates its figures refer to.
Independence and how we make money
TickerVerdict is funded by display advertising, and may in future earn commissions from links to brokers. Any such link is labelled on the page. Advertisers and brokers have no say over which companies are compared or how they are scored, and no company can pay to be covered.
Corrections
If you find an error, tell us or email contact@tickerverdict.com. We check every report against the filing itself, correct confirmed errors promptly, and the page's updated date changes when we do.
Not investment advice
Everything on TickerVerdict is general information about what companies have reported. It is not a recommendation to buy or sell any security, and it does not take your circumstances into account. See our terms.