look-02-cost-structure

What problem does it solve?

This skill automates the calculation and verification of a company's cost structure by deriving four key expense ratios (sales, admin, financial, and R&D) and their year-over-year changes, then assesses their alignment with revenue growth over a defined lookback period.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Expense ratio computation: derives saleexp_to_gr, adminexp_of_gr, finaexp_of_gr, and rdexp_to_gr from consolidated annual reports (end_date = 12/31) and visible data as of a given date.
• Growth-mismatch detection: flags years where expense growth exceeds or misaligns with revenue growth, enabling targeted audits.
• Flexible lookback & outputs: supports a configurable number of past years and returns both markdown and JSON payloads for downstream automation.

Quick Start

Run the look-02 Cost Structure analysis for a target stock and date to obtain the yearly expense ratios and growth-mismatch evidences.