Fintopea

Finance and crypto

financial statement analysis

SHOW HN2022

245points
63comments
#200of 2,570 in 2022
Top 8%of 2022 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

12 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 28 comments about the project. Thread score +0.32.

Design: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Simple, clean UI and easy plotting

    From 4 comments
    • This is amazing! I love that you can plot the data on a graph with 2 clicks. If you're into superinvestor activity like gurufocus, I can recommend something in the same simple,…
      johnwheeler on HN
    • As someone who has spent some time looking at some of the more popular alternatives for this type of information (i.e. the top results when googling), I find the simplicity of…
      bryceneal on HN
    • very nice. Simple and clean
      maddynator on HN
    • This is nice. Reminds me a lot of koyfin before they went pay2play.. now I found myself some other open source tools. Thank you for this!!
      Rocket89 on HN
  • Useful, handy resource

    From 3 comments

Objections

  • Covers only US companies

    From 2 comments
    • First questions: ``` - What's the data source for this ? - What's the restatement policy of the data display? - Why the limitations on period types ? - Any plans to add common…
      traceroute66 on HN
    • I mean.. the largest most liquid market in the world is the us equities market.. every foreign investor worth his salt (and his time) spends time researching and ultimately…
      Rocket89 on HN
  • Data appears out of date

    From 1 comment
  • Name is forgettable and unclear

    From 1 comment
    • As someone who has spent some time looking at some of the more popular alternatives for this type of information (i.e. the top results when googling), I find the simplicity of…
      bryceneal on HN

Requests

  • Logarithmic y-axis plots

    From 3 comments
    • This is fantastic. Would love to be able to have logarithmic y-axis!
      yessql on HN
    • Please add logarithmic plots - and IMO they should be the default.
      ars on HN
    • This is great. For 30 year time horizons, a log plot will be useful
      random314 on HN
  • Financial ratios such as P/E and growth

    From 2 comments
    • Nice. I would love to have a "ratios" tab just for the kicks, NP ratio, gp, stock turnover, working capital turnover, income tax paid ratio, earnings, pbt ratio, pat ratio,…
      2Gkashmiri on HN
    • Two great features would be calculations of the ratios like P/E, YoY revenue growth, YoY profit growth, and side by side comparison.
      reducesuffering on HN
  • Custom metric fix for unlevered free cash flow

    From 1 comment
    • I get an error when trying to create a custom metric for unlevered free cash flow. "Invalid left-hand side expression in postfix operation"
      Rastonbury on HN

Questions

  • Where does the data come from

    From 4 comments
    • This is pretty awesome where is the data coming from?
      samfisher83 on HN
    • Very nice! Where did you pull your data from? Are there any good financial api/datasets out there available for financial data?
      gyosko on HN
    • First questions: ``` - What's the data source for this ? - What's the restatement policy of the data display? - Why the limitations on period types ? - Any plans to add common…
      traceroute66 on HN
    • I need to build something similar for my job, so this already gave me couple of ideas. Thank you for sharing this! How did you aggregate all of this data? Did you fetch it from…
      dmane11 on HN
  • Can the source code be seen

    From 1 comment
    • Oh very cool. Not available now. Anyway to see the codebase?
      gennarro on HN

Alternatives named

  • Dataroma

    From 1 comment
    • This is amazing! I love that you can plot the data on a graph with 2 clicks. If you're into superinvestor activity like gurufocus, I can recommend something in the same simple,…
      johnwheeler on HN
  • Koyfin

    From 1 comment
    • This is nice. Reminds me a lot of koyfin before they went pay2play.. now I found myself some other open source tools. Thank you for this!!
      Rocket89 on HN
  • Polygon.io

    From 1 comment
    • Not OP, but I am in charge of engineering and operating a high-performance quantitative algorithm engine at my company and I can wholeheartedly recommend https://polygon.io. We…
      Mo3 on HN
  • IEX Cloud, Quandl, Bloomberg, Refinitiv, CapitalIQ, Factset

    From 2 comments
    • > Are there any good financial api/datasets out there available for financial data? I assume you mean other than the usual suspects ? ;-) Try IEX Cloud or Quandl, both are quite…
      traceroute66 on HN
    • Bloomberg, Refinitiv, CapitalIQ, Factset
      traceroute66 on HN

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