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Comment by getToTheChopin | Hacker News Reader

Interesting concept. I tried the query "Please provide a comprehensive analysis of Bell Canada's fundamental financial metrics" as I am quite familiar with BCE as a company.

The output was quite generic. Lots of buzzwords, without any substantial discussion about the what the company actually sells or what they are investing in (fibre to the home network, 5G, evolution from telco to tech services firm, cloud consulting, etc...).

Also the financial "analysis" was limited to discussing the PE ratio and P/B of the company. Telcos are typically valued based on EV/EBITDA or EV/FCF -- this is standard amongst analysts and investors in the Telco community.

The analysis seemed very surface-level, but it's an interesting start.

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Hi GetToTheChopin. Firstly, thank you so much for trying out this product. It truly means a lot for people trying out something new that you made. To help you improve your experience. When looking at "financial metrics," traditionally, analysts would look at "metrics". These would include features such as "P/E," etc. If you were looking more toward products than, a prompt such as "Hi AllMind, could you tell me what Bell Canada's top revenue sources and products are?" Would help you. I tried the prompt out myself, and AllMind AI's response included the products you mentioned (Fibre Network, 5G, IoT, Consulting, etc.). The EV/EBITDA and the other metrics you mentioned are in our roadmap and will be added very soon. In our initial launch, we wanted to focus on very common and most used metrics. These include the EPS, P/B, Book Value, etc., which most investors use primarily. However we plan to add over 250 more metrics to be incorporated with the model in which EV/EBITDA and EV/FCF are included. This update will be added very soon shortly in our next major update. As great minds think alike, I appreciate that you wanted to push AllMind's limits very early in the launch, and I assure you that it will be able to handle both metrics very soon. If you have any other feedback, I would love to hear it because only from user feedback can we improve and better our product for the satisfaction of our users such as yourself.

Thanks, Anwaar

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