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About to buy a stock? Check what's hiding first.

GhostStocks reads the financials behind the headline and shows you where the numbers hold up, and where they don't.

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Don't be scared of the numbers.
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Five forensic checks
We look beneath the headline numbers.
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Evidence-based
See the exact figures and filings.
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No predictions
Just facts, not guesses.
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Built for investors
Make more informed decisions.

Meet the Five Ghosts

Five forensic checks. One clear score. Every stock runs through all five.

The Red Ghost

And we have a rare one

The Red Ghost appears only when several checks deteriorate at once after a company's latest filing. One weak metric has ordinary explanations; several converging together is worth a closer look. It's uncommon by design, so seeing one is significant.

What the Ghosts are seeing

Notable findings across the companies we cover, right now.

Cleanest books right now

The stocks whose reported numbers hold up best under the five checks. A high score means the books are clean, not that it's a buy.

How it works

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Pick a stock
Type a ticker, or browse the screener. Every company we cover runs through the same five checks.
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The five Ghosts investigate
Each Ghost examines one forensic relationship in the filings, from earnings quality to share dilution.
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You get one clear score
A 0-100 Ghost Score with a grade, the findings behind it, and the real figures, so you see what's propped up before you buy.

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The Five Ghosts

Five forensic checks. Click any Ghost to open its case file.

Ghost Score History

Has the company's financial quality improved or declined over time?

Price & volume
Shaded bands are volume zones: price levels where the most shares have changed hands. They show where trading has concentrated, to inform your own read. They are not predictions of where the price will go. Sample price data shown in this prototype.

This is a read on the reported numbers, not a recommendation. GhostStocks never tells you whether to buy, sell, or trade, only what the filings show. Some of these patterns have perfectly ordinary explanations for certain kinds of business; the score shows what's there, and the judgment is yours.

The financials underneath

The reported figures our scores are built from. This is the raw statement data, exactly as filed, for you to read for yourself.

What the numbers show

Figures as reported by the company, in millions of US dollars except per-share and share-count data. Prior-year columns are the immediately preceding fiscal year. This prototype shows the line items GhostStocks scores from; a full release would carry every statement line.

Your notes

Private, timestamped notes on this company.

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The Five Ghosts

Every stock runs through five forensic checks. Each Ghost examines one relationship between figures a company reported in its own filings. Meet the specialists, and click any one to see what it looks for.

The Red Ghost

When several checks go wrong at once

The five Ghosts each catch one specific issue. The Red Ghost is different: it's a rare, higher-level alert that appears only when multiple Ghost checks deteriorate materially at the same time, following a company's latest filing.

A single weak metric usually has an ordinary explanation. But when several independent warning patterns converge together, that's more meaningful, and worth a closer look. The Red Ghost is deliberately uncommon: no single check triggers it, so seeing one is significant.

It does not imply wrongdoing. It signals that a company's financial quality has changed enough across several dimensions to warrant closer examination.

What the scores mean

Methodology

GhostStocks is a financial-quality analysis tool. Here is plainly how the numbers are produced and what they can and cannot tell you.

What the score is

A Ghost Score is a mechanical summary of five relationships between figures a company reported in its own filings. The same arithmetic runs on every company. There is no model, no forecast, and no discretionary adjustment.

Each check returns 0 to 100 by comparing a measured ratio against fixed anchor points. Those anchors are set once and applied universally, so two companies with the same figures always receive the same score.

What the score is not

It is not investment advice, a price target, or a prediction. It says nothing about whether a share is cheap or expensive.

It is not an allegation of wrongdoing. A low score means reported figures moved in relation to each other in a way worth examining. There are ordinary explanations for most of those patterns: seasonality, acquisitions, working capital timing, revenue recognition structure, or a business model that simply looks different from its peers.

It is not a substitute for reading the filing. Every check names its source so the filing stays one click away.

Where the figures come from

Scores are computed from annual figures as reported: revenue, operating income, net income, operating cash flow, capital expenditure, accounts receivable, stock-based compensation, shares outstanding, debt, cash, and interest expense.

Score history re-runs the same five checks on each trailing window, so a change in the history line reflects a change in the company rather than a change in the method.

Known limits

Financial companies, REITs, and early-stage companies with little revenue are poorly served by ratios built for operating businesses. Treat their scores with extra caution.

Restated figures change past scores. When a company restates, its history line changes with it.

GhostStocks is an analysis tool, not investment advice and not a brokerage. A score describes the quality of a company's reported numbers, never whether its stock will rise or fall.

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GhostStocks ranks companies by the quality of their reported numbers, not by whether their stock will rise. A clean grade means the financials hold up, it is not a recommendation to buy. Always research further and consider price, business quality, and your own goals before investing.

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Every figure below is derived directly from reported income-statement, balance-sheet, and cash-flow line items. GhostStocks highlights divergences for further examination; it makes no prediction about share price and no claim of wrongdoing.