Using AI to extract management guidance in earnings calls

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Julia Xu, Chief of Staff at Hudson Labs

The Hudson Labs Co-Analyst transforms investors' interactions with earnings call transcripts, extracting consistent, reliable, factual guidance in a structured format within seconds. Explore additional powerful functions here. 

Easily retrieve official and unofficial, hard and soft guidance in the format of your choice. By default, the Co-Analyst provides guidance in a table with direct copy to Excel or Google Sheets. The Co-Analyst also performs accurate mathematical reasoning and calculates the guidance range.

The Co-Analyst is purpose-built for financial content and focuses on specific workflows. Unlike competitor financial chatbots, which are error-prone (as demonstrated below), the Co-Analyst delivers consistent and reliable output without hallucinating or generating incorrect information.

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Nvidia $NVDA guidance

All examples below are as of January 7, 2025.

The Co-Analyst accurately calculates the upper and lower bounds of the guidance using reliable Hudson Labs mathematics functionality. 

**Notice that the output specifies the lower and upper end of guidance from the source

When asked about Nvidia’s Q4 2025 guidance from its most recent earnings call, a competitive financial AI chatbot provided incorrect revenue and operating expenses guidance (test performed on December 18, 2024).

Eli Lilly $LLY guidance 

The Co-Analyst output includes important soft guidance.

Microsoft $MSFT guidance

The Co-Analyst ensures completeness and includes hard and soft guidance for each segment in the output.

Apple $AAPL guidance 

The Co-Analyst output includes qualitative disclosure with the necessary context and commentary to supplement the quantitative guidance. 

Tesla $TSLA guidance 

The Co-Analyst output includes both immediate and out-year guidance.

Meta $META guidance

The Co-Analyst output includes important updates from previous guidance for investors to gauge the changes in business trends.

Start using reliable artificial intelligence in your day-to-day investing workflow with the Hudson Labs Co-Analyst. Rely on factual and consistent guidance extraction in the format you need it. 

To learn more about the Co-Analyst, find the complete instruction guide here

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