All public traded companies have earnings call every quarter to update on the state of the company and its future. Although, quantitative information regarding operations and investments are available through financial statements, financial analysts in specific areas of interest attend earnings call to get qualitative information. This information include managements commentary on challenges, opportunities, strategic initiatives, market conditions, competition, future guidance amongst others. These calls also provide opportunities to ask questions to the management team. In short term, for specific organisations, analaysts are able to effectively use these earnings calls as part of their research to make decisions and recommendations regarding the organisation.
However, to do these analysis manually at scale over many years across many organisations becomes challenging. However, such large scale analysis is important to for a wide range of insights. These can range from understand industry trends, sentiment analysis, differential analysis across organisations across various metrics such as leading innovation, ability to execute and materialize on strategic initiatives, predicting recommendations from different analysts. At Naavil, we are taking our first steps towards addressing this major challenge. As part of our core expertise, we have build a web solution that can take an earnings call and transcribe it accurately and summarise it. This summarisation can already provide key insights from past earnings calls for analysts that can augment to their research and recommendation. A video demo of the capability on the Shell quarterly earnings report is shown in the link below.