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comps-analysis

Build institutional-grade comparable company analyses with operating metrics, valuation multiples, and statistical benchmarking in Excel/spreadsheet format. **Perfect for:** - Public company valuation (M&A, investment analysis) - Benchmarking performance vs. industry peers - Pricing IPOs or funding rounds - Identifying valuation outliers (over/under-valued) - Supporting investment committee presentations - Creating sector overview reports **Not ideal for:** - Private companies without comparable public peers - Highly diversified conglomerates - Distressed/bankrupt companies - Pre-revenue startups - Companies with unique business models

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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The content is highly actionable with a clear, well-validated workflow, but it is too long and repetitive — three sections repeat industry-specific metric guidance and a formula reference section duplicates earlier examples. It also fails to split material into bundle files and references a non-existent example file.

Suggestions

Consolidate the three overlapping industry-metric sections (Section 5, the Section 6 'Industry-Specific Modifications' block, and Section 9) into one place to remove repetition.

Remove or slim Section 11 (Formulas Reference Guide) since the same formulas already appear in Sections 2-3, keeping only genuinely novel entries.

Move the full formula reference and per-industry addenda into reference files under references/, and either provide the referenced examples/comps_example.xlsx or remove the broken reference.

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Conciseness

The body is noticeably verbose (~640 lines): Section 5 (Choosing the Right Metrics), Section 9 (Industry-Specific Additions), and the 'Industry-Specific Modifications' block all repeat overlapping industry guidance, and Section 11's Formulas Reference Guide duplicates formulas already shown in Sections 2-3, with multiple redundant checklists (Excel Formatting, Output, Continuous Improvement).

2 / 5

Actionability

It provides fully executable, copy-paste-ready guidance: concrete Excel formulas (=E7/C7, =QUARTILE(B7:B9,3), =MEDIAN), an Office JS snippet, openpyxl instructions, exact hex colors, citation examples, and a full template layout diagram covering the common cases.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

It gives a clear sequenced 6-step process (Section 7) with explicit validation checkpoints ('Verify step-by-step with the user': show header layout, confirm inputs, sanity-check margins, confirm multiples), plus sanity checks, a QC step, and an output checklist — including a 'do NOT build end-to-end then present' feedback loop.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

It has reasonable in-document structure (numbered sections and headers), but all content is inlined in one ~640-line file with no bundle files, and the one reference it makes (examples/comps_example.xlsx) points to a file that does not exist; the formula reference and industry addenda would fit better as separate files.

3 / 5

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is strong: third-person voice, clearly states what the skill does and when to use it, with concrete trigger use-cases and explicit anti-triggers that bound the niche. Minor improvement is possible by adding common synonyms ('comps', 'trading comps', 'peer analysis') and file extensions.

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Specificity

The description names the domain ('comparable company analyses') and lists several concrete building-block actions ('operating metrics, valuation multiples, and statistical benchmarking in Excel/spreadsheet format'), with minor gaps in coverage of the build actions themselves.

4 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers both 'what' (build institutional-grade comp analyses with operating metrics, valuation multiples, statistical benchmarking) and 'when' via the explicit 'Perfect for:' trigger list, plus anti-triggers in 'Not ideal for:'.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

It includes good natural phrases users would say ('Public company valuation (M&A)', 'Benchmarking performance vs. industry peers', 'Pricing IPOs or funding rounds', 'investment committee presentations'), but omits common synonyms like 'comps', 'trading comps', 'peer analysis', and file extensions.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

'Comparable company analyses' is a distinct finance niche with specialized triggers (M&A, IPO/funding pricing, investment committee), and the 'Not ideal for:' boundary list further sharpens it against adjacent skills.

5 / 5

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Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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SKILL.md is long (662 lines); consider splitting into references/ and linking

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