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From Idea To A CompleteTrading Comps Table

Start with a ticker, describe the universe you want to cover, or bring your own company list. Review the proposed peer groups, then turn them into a configurable, presentation-ready trading comps table in seconds

Trading Comparables table with airline peer groups, multiples, and summary statistics in AdvEngine
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Trading CompsFeatures & Capabilities

From building the right universe to a presentation-ready table

High-Quality Comp Universes, Under Your Control

Start from a ticker, a description of a market or theme, or a blank sheet and ask for candidates. Suggestions are grounded in company filings, industry reports, and news flow rather than generic "similar companies" lists, and candidates come with a clear rationale for inclusion that you review before adding. You always keep full manual control: type tickers with instant lookup, paste an entire list at once, and add or remove companies at any time

Multiple Peer Groups in One Table

Organize companies into clearly formatted peer groups within a single table, using color schemes and other formatting tools. Reorder groups and companies with drag and drop or sort, and exclude individual companies from statistics without removing them from the analysis

Comprehensive Multiples & Metrics

EV/Revenue, EV/EBITDA, and P/E across three estimate periods, plus forward growth, margins, leverage, capitalization, trading data, consensus price-target upside, and analyst coverage

Calendarized or Fiscal Basis

Switch between calendar-year and fiscal-year views with one click. Calendar mode blends fiscal estimates to align companies with different year ends; fiscal mode shows each company's next three fiscal years

Summary Statistics

High, quartiles, median, mean, and low per peer group, plus a grand summary across the whole set, computed over all companies or across your peer groups

Flexible Weighting & Custom Blends

Go beyond simple averages: assign your own weights to peer groups and blend them into custom composite multiples. Include or exclude names with one click, rebalance instantly, and build segment breakdowns, for example weighting peer groups to mirror a diversified company's business mix

Historical Multiples

See how multiples have evolved over time. Compare where a company trades today against its own history, so you can instantly tell whether it looks cheap or expensive versus past trading ranges

Heatmaps & Distributions

Turn on heatmap coloring to see where each company sits within its group or in the whole set, and use distribution charts to understand how multiples spread across the set

Fully Configurable Layout & Formatting

Use column presets or build your own view: show or hide metrics, reorder and resize columns, set decimal precision. Apply row highlights, custom labels, peer-group colors, zebra bands, and column emphasis so the valuation story reads clearly on screen and in print

Data Transparency

Every figure comes from relevant, trusted data sources and is computed deterministically, in seconds, so each output traces directly back to the underlying data. The table shows its data-as-of date, flags stale balance-sheet figures, and surfaces missing, not-meaningful, or refresh-needed data instead of ignoring it

One-Click Refresh & Export

Your comp set is a living template: the layout saves automatically, and one click refreshes every price, estimate, and multiple to the latest data. It's then immediately ready to drop into a presentation or export as a styled Excel workbook

Point-in-Time Snapshots

Freeze your comp set at any moment. A snapshot captures every multiple and input exactly as they stood on that date and time, and stays in the system permanently until you delete it, so you can always cite the multiples behind a past analysis. Meanwhile the module itself stays live: you can keep updating and refreshing your comp set without ever affecting an existing snapshot

How it works
From A Blank Page To A Defensible Comps TableIn seconds
1

Describe Your Universe

Start from a ticker, describe the market or theme you want to cover, or create an empty group and add your own tickers. Combine all three approaches in the same comp set

2

The Agent Proposes the Comp Set

The agent reasons about each company's business, size, and segments to propose genuinely comparable peer groups, each with a short rationale, not the static sector irrelevant lists other tools usually return

3

You Review & Approve

Remove candidates, rename or reorganize groups, move companies between them, and add anything the agent missed. You decide what enters the table

4

Multiples Are Computed Instantly

AdvEngine loads all relevant data, then computes the multiples, margins, growth rates, and summary statistics deterministically

5

Shape the View

Pick columns and decimals, sort, apply heatmaps and highlights, set peer-group weights, and arrange everything until the table tells the story you want

6

Export, Snapshot & Revisit

Export a styled Excel workbook or use the clean print view, save immutable point-in-time snapshots, and return any time: your layout saves automatically and the pinned market data refreshes on demand

Use cases
Relative Valuation That Keeps UpWith Your Ideas

Investment Banking / Corporate Development

  • Produce polished, presentation-ready comps pages for pitch decks, transaction, and fairness materials in a fraction of the time
  • Maintain reusable sector comps that refresh on demand instead of rebuilding spreadsheets before every meeting
  • Benchmark clients and targets against thematically organized peer groups, with defensible peer selection you can explain
  • Build complex tables with weighted peer groups to get the right multiples in complex situations

Investment Funds

  • Frame relative valuation for new ideas in seconds: see where a company trades against direct competitors, adjacent players, and benchmarks
  • Compare valuation levels across sectors and watchlists, and spot dislocations between peer groups
  • Sanity-check entry and exit multiples for existing positions against a consistently dated, refreshable peer set
  • Snapshot comp sets at decision points to document the valuation context behind investment decisions
  • Handle trickier names with weighted peer groups, so the multiples you rely on are the right ones
Next steps
What's Next ForTrading Comps

Continuous innovation to make Trading Comps even more useful

Single-Currency Comparison

View absolute figures like market capitalization and enterprise value converted into a single currency across the whole comp set, making cross-border peer groups even easier to read

Forward-Looking Historical Multiples

Track how companies' forward multiples evolved using the estimates available at each point in time. Backward-looking historical multiples are already available

Integration with Financial Modeling Agent

Feed comps directly into your financial models for relative valuation and football-field charts

Excel Add-in

Direct integration with Excel for a seamless workflow

More Metrics & Sector-Specific Multiples

Additional columns and specialized multiples for sectors where standard metrics don't tell the full story

Additional Source-Level Transparency

As of today, the data comes from data providers. We are working on going deeper: you will see source-level data, with every metric traced to company filings or specific data points from exchanges, including bond data, every calculation such as enterprise value laid out in full, and the ability to tweak manually what goes into each multiple. For consensus, you will see exactly which analyst reports are included, spot the outliers, and hand-pick the reports that go in

FAQ

Find The Answers You Need

Quick answers to the questions that come up most

How are comparable companies selected?
AdvEngine analyzes your request, then our AI engine searches industry materials, company filings, and news to understand the company's business model and segments. Potential peers are grouped by their similarity to the company and its segments, and the most relevant ones are proposed as your comp set. If your request includes specifics, such as a particular geography or sub-industry, the selection takes that into account
Which multiples and metrics are included?
EV/Revenue, EV/EBITDA, and P/E, each across three forward periods. The table also covers revenue, EBITDA, and net income growth; EBITDA and net income margins; leverage, including net debt, total debt, and debt-to-EBITDA ratios; market capitalization and enterprise value; share price, daily change, and 52-week range; consensus price targets with implied upside; and analyst coverage counts. You choose which columns are shown, and we are working on expanding the list with additional metrics to pick from, including industry-specific ones
Are the multiples historical or forward-looking?
Forward-looking. Each multiple measures today's share price, market capitalization, or enterprise value against consensus analyst estimates for the current active (not yet reported) year and the following two years. You can view those periods on either a calendar-year or fiscal-year basis
Where does the data come from, and how fresh is it?
The data comes from multiple reputable data providers and is pulled the moment you ask for trading comps. It is not a live feed: there can be a slight technical delay of around 15 minutes, which is usual for many systems. You can refresh the data at any time, bringing the table up to the moment of the refresh, and you can save snapshots to keep a record of it at any point in time
What about companies with different currencies and fiscal year ends?
Each company's multiples are calculated in its native reporting currency, and since multiples are ratios, they remain comparable across companies regardless of currency. Absolute figures such as revenue and market capitalization appear in each company's own currency; we are working on an additional mode that converts everything into a single common currency when you ask for it, with all the relevant calculations behind it. For different fiscal year ends, calendar mode restates estimates onto calendar years so every company is compared over the same periods, while fiscal mode keeps each company on its own reporting calendar
Can I export results from the module?
Yes. Export the table to a formatted Excel workbook, print it from a clean print-ready layout, or use the results elsewhere in the system. You can also save point-in-time snapshots that stay frozen as market data moves on

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