Know the business before you buy the stock

StockoScope pulls ten years of numbers, lays them out in 12 steps from business to valuation, and adds a plain-English AI read. You rate each step and decide: buy, watch or pass.

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Kestrel Logistics

NYSE · KSTL

$84.20

+1.42%

AI read of the moat

  • Owns 40 cold-storage hubs near ports that rivals would need years to permit.
  • Contracts run five years on average, so customers rarely switch.
  • Risk: two customers bring in a third of revenue.
ROIC
18.4%
Margin
41.2%
Retention
94%

Your rating

Moat size

Moat direction

Score across 8 ratings

Worth a closer look

3.65 / 5

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Research a stock in three steps

The software collects and sorts. You judge and decide.

  1. 01

    We pull the numbers

    Ten years of income statements, balance sheets and cash flows, with ratios such as return on capital calculated from them.

  2. 02

    AI lays them out

    Each of the 12 steps gets its own charts and ratios, and most add a short plain-English read of what the numbers say.

  3. 03

    You make the call

    Rate each step, get one score, and file the stock as buy, watch, hold or pass on your dashboard.

Borrowed conclusions don’t survive a bad quarter.

A stock tip or a chatbot answer tells you what to think. When the price falls 30%, you can’t tell whether the reason you bought still holds, so you sell at the worst moment.

Conviction comes from answering the same few questions about every company yourself. StockoScope puts the numbers for each question in front of you, so the work is short enough to actually do.

  • Do I understand how it makes money?Business
  • What stops a rival from copying it?Moat
  • Is it growing, and what drives it?Growth
  • Do the people running it act like owners?Management
  • What could break it?Risk
  • Is the price sensible for what I get?Valuation

The 12 steps of every analysis

Each step is one tab with its own numbers, and most add an AI read. Back and Next take you through them in the order an analyst would read a company.

  1. 01

    Overview

    Price, key numbers and what the company does in one paragraph.

  2. 02

    Business

    How it makes money, who pays, and how you feel about it.

  3. 03

    Phase

    Where it sits in the lifecycle, from startup to capital return.

  4. 04

    Moat

    How big its advantage is and whether it is widening.

  5. 05

    Growth

    Revenue, earnings and cash-flow growth, and what drives them.

  6. 06

    Management

    Who runs it, what they own, and how they spend capital.

  7. 07

    Risk

    Debt, customer concentration and what could go wrong.

  8. 08

    Valuation

    What the price implies, against history and peers.

  9. 09

    Summary

    Your eight ratings, one score and your final call.

  10. 10

    Financials

    Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow by year.

  11. 11

    Capital Return

    Dividends and buybacks, and whether cash covers them.

  12. 12

    Earnings

    Recent beats and misses, and the next report date.

Judge each company by the phase it’s in

Companies move through a five-phase life cycle. The phase changes what you should expect from a company and how you value it, so StockoScope places every company in one and tells you which numbers to focus on.

Scroll sideways to see all five phases

  1. 1

    Startup

  2. 2

    Hyper Growth

  3. 3

    Operating Leverage

  4. 4

    Capital Return

  5. 5

    Decline

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  • Building the product. Little revenue, operating losses.

    Focus on Cash runway

  • Revenue grows 25%+ a year; profit waits.

    Focus on Revenue growth

  • Growth slows while margins widen.

    Focus on Margin trend

  • Mature. Cash goes back to shareholders.

    Focus on Dividends & buybacks

  • Revenue shrinks year after year.

    Focus on Debt & payout safety

Tools for finding and following stocks

Find candidates in the screener, then keep an eye on the ones you rated.

A screener refreshed every night

Filter up to 1,000 US stocks by return on capital, debt, growth and price, then open any result in one click.

Alerts on price and earnings

Set a price and get an email and a bell note when a stock crosses it.

Watch lists with your calls

Keep the stocks you are following on your dashboard, each with your buy, hold or watch call.

A report you can print

Every analysis becomes one page with your ratings, notes and the AI read, ready to save as PDF.

Built for every kind of long-term investor

  • New investors

    You don’t know which numbers matter, or what “good” looks like.

    Each step shows a handful of numbers with a plain-English read, so you learn the method while you use it.

  • Experienced investors

    Collecting ten years of data takes longer than judging it.

    Statements, ratios and a score per step are ready when you open the stock. Your time goes on the judgment.

  • Dividend investors

    A high yield can hide a payout the business can’t afford.

    The Capital Return step and the dividends page set dividends and buybacks against free cash flow.

  • Quality and growth investors

    Great businesses are hard to find among thousands of tickers.

    Screen by return on capital, debt and growth, then check whether the moat is widening.

The same research evening, spent two ways

Asking a chatbot or reading stock picks, next to working through StockoScope.

Chatbots and stock picks

  • Numbers you can’t trace to a source, and some that are made up
  • Someone else’s conclusion, with no method behind it
  • Nothing is saved, so next quarter you start over
  • Every company is judged a different way

StockoScope

  • Statements from Financial Modeling Prep, with ratios calculated from them
  • Your own rating on each step, built from the numbers next to it
  • Ratings, notes and your call saved on your dashboard
  • The same 12 steps for every company, so they compare fairly
for every company
12 steps
rolled into one score
8 ratings
to judge it by
5 phases
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Questions about StockoScope

What it does with your data, and what it does not do.

Your first analysis starts with one search.

Pick a company you already own or one you have been curious about, and work through it step by step.

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