- 4 min read
The Capital-Discipline Floor: Why a Profitable Core Can't Buy Cover for an Unprofitable Bet
When one segment prints most of the profit and another burns billions with no path to breakeven, LacunaIndex's scoring methodology nets the two for operating execution but refuses to net them for capital-allocation accountability once a fixed loss threshold is crossed.
- 5 min read
The Partial Restatement Problem: Why "Use the Latest Filing" Corrupts Financial Comps
When a company amends a prior filing to fix one line item, a pipeline that just grabs "the latest filing" can silently blend the corrected figure with unrelated numbers the amendment never touched, and diligence teams have no way to tell which cells actually came from a restatement.
- 8 min read
When Buybacks Stop Being Bullish: Broadridge, GM, and the Capital Allocation Test
Two companies can buy back stock aggressively and tell completely different stories. The signal isn't the size of the authorization — it's whether cash flow, reinvestment, share retirement, valuation discipline, and operating performance confirm what management wants investors to believe.
- 4 min read
Scheduled Sale or Signal? Why Insider Selling Needs a Rule 10b5-1 Split Before It Means Anything
Buy-side analysts treat a headline insider-sale number as a single data point, but pre-scheduled Rule 10b5-1 trades and discretionary trades carry opposite signal value, and LacunaIndex's Form 4 pipeline tags every transaction with its plan status so the two never get averaged into a false signal.
- 4 min read
Three Peers or No Verdict: A Hard Gate Against Fake Comps
A premium-to-peers or discount-to-peers claim is only as trustworthy as the number of comparable companies behind it, and most displays never say what that number is.
- 6 min read
The Pressure Test: Turning a Growth Narrative Into a Falsifiable Claim
Diligence analysts need a fast way to tell whether a company's growth story is testable or just persuasive, and LacunaIndex's Pressure Test module answers that by matching each claim to one of seven named historical failure patterns and naming the exact disclosure that would rebut it.
- 4 min read
Announced Is Not Verified: A Five-State Ladder for Grading What a Company Says It Did
Diligence trackers usually record whether a claimed corporate initiative was announced or delivered, but not how strong the evidence behind that label actually is — here is a five-state disclosure ladder analysts can apply to any company's claimed wins themselves.
- 4 min read
Grading the Promise, Not the Prose: A Verbatim Ledger for Executive Hedging
Diligence analysts flag management hedging by feel on an earnings call; a verbatim, dated ledger of exact quotes, specificity scores, and language drift turns that gut check into evidence you can point to instead of an impression you have to defend.
- 6 min read
Sep-End vs. Dec-End: The Silent Bug That Breaks Every Peer Comp
Peer-multiple tables assume every row measures the same thing over the same period on the same accounting basis, an assumption that fails silently far more often than diligence analysts check for, and we built (then had to fix) a guard that catches it.
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