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Give me up to 20 peers ranked by similarity."},{"title":"Portfolio benchmarking analysis","prompt":"For my analysis of AMD, find the top 10 publicly traded companies that are most comparable by industry, assets, and profit margins using SEC XBRL data."}],"resultDescription":"Returns a structured response containing the target company's profile (CIK, ticker, name, SIC code, assets, revenue, margin) and an ordered list of peer companies ranked by financial similarity. Each peer row includes CIK, ticker, company name, assets in USD, revenue in USD, net income in USD, profit margin, log-scale distance score, and similarity score. Also includes metadata like the frame year used, number of candidates in the industry, and the as-of date of the data.","failureModes":["Invalid or unrecognized ticker returns an error or empty result","CIK not found in SEC XBRL corpus returns no data","Both ticker and CIK omitted causes a validation error","Company has insufficient XBRL financial data for similarity ranking","Limit parameter out of range (below 1 or above 50) causes a validation error","Payment not completed results in 402 response blocking the call"],"whenToPreferThis":"Use this endpoint when you need a ranked, financially-grounded peer set for a public company without loading or querying the SEC XBRL corpus yourself. It is ideal for valuation comp tables, competitive benchmarking, and regulatory or investment analysis where industry-adjusted financial similarity (assets, revenue, margins) matters more than qualitative categorization. Prefer it over manual SIC lookups or generic screeners when you need distance-scored similarity with underlying financials in one call.","instructions":null,"reviewSummary":null,"reviewSummaryHighlights":null,"reviewSummaryConcerns":null,"reviewSummaryGeneratedAt":null,"activationCount":0,"lastUsedAt":null,"lastSuccessfullyRanAt":null,"lastHealthCheckAt":"2026-09-14T13:05:35.472Z","isFirstParty":false}