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Using AI to extract management guidance in earnings calls

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Julia Xu, Chief of Staff at Hudson Labs

The Hudson Labs Co-Analyst transforms investors' interactions with earnings call transcripts, extracting consistent, reliable, factual guidance in a structured format within seconds. Explore additional powerful functions here. 

Easily retrieve official and unofficial, hard and soft guidance in the format of your choice. By default, the Co-Analyst provides guidance in a table with direct copy to Excel or Google Sheets. The Co-Analyst also performs accurate mathematical reasoning and calculates the guidance range.

The Co-Analyst is purpose-built for financial content and focuses on specific workflows. Unlike competitor financial chatbots, which are error-prone (as demonstrated below), the Co-Analyst delivers consistent and reliable output without hallucinating or generating incorrect information.

Fundamental investors also use Hudson Labs to systematize their investing workflow. Check out our previous blog post for Hudson Labs’ comprehensive earnings coverage.

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Nvidia $NVDA guidance

All examples below are as of April 3, 2025.

The Co-Analyst accurately calculates the upper and lower bounds of the guidance using reliable Hudson Labs mathematics functionality. 

NVIDIA Q1 2026 guidance using the Co-Analyst

*Notice that the output specifies the lower and upper end of guidance from the source:

When asked about Nvidia’s Q4 2025 guidance from its most recent earnings call, Perplexity Pro provided mostly incorrect numbers and cited Substack and Reddit as its top sources.

Limitation of Perplexity when using for investment

Meta $META capital expenditure guidance revision

The Co-Analyst output includes important updates from previous guidance for investors to gauge the changes in business trends.

Analyze Meta capex guidance which doubled in the last two years

Eli Lilly $LLY drug pricing guidance

The Co-Analyst extracts all verbatim guidance and management quotes upon requests.

Eli Lilly drug pricing guidance analysis

Visa $V guidance 

The Co-Analyst output includes important soft guidance.

Visa soft guidance extraction

Microsoft $MSFT guidance

The Co-Analyst ensures completeness and includes hard and soft guidance for each segment in the output.

Microsoft Q3 2025 guidance

Apple $AAPL guidance 

The Co-Analyst output includes qualitative disclosure with the necessary context and commentary to supplement the quantitative guidance. 

Apple Q2 2025 guidance

Tesla $TSLA guidance 

The Co-Analyst output includes both immediate and out-year guidance.

Tesla 2025 and long-term guidance

Start using reliable artificial intelligence in your day-to-day investing workflow with the Hudson Labs Co-Analyst. Rely on factual and consistent guidance extraction in the format you need it. 

To learn more about the Co-Analyst, find the complete instruction guide here

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