10 Stock Research Claude Prompts

Competitor Showdown Skill

Never look at a stock in isolation. Claude compares 3 tickers in the same sector across 3-year revenue growth, margin trends, balance sheet strength, competitive positioning, and valuation-relative-to-growth. Identifies which management team is actually delivering vs. just promising, picks a winner, explains why — then deliberately tells you why you might be wrong.

Earnings Call Translator Skill

Paste any earnings call transcript — Claude separates real commitments from vague deflection, identifies dodged analyst questions, distinguishes new forward guidance from repackaged old targets, flags what management ISN'T talking about that they should be, and distills the 3 things that actually matter for the stock over the next 12 months.

Panic-Proof Thesis Skill

Write this BEFORE you need it. A tight investment thesis you can reference when the stock drops and you're tempted to panic sell. 2-sentence "why I own this," 3 things that must stay true for the thesis to hold, 3 things that would break it and trigger an exit, 12-month expectations, and a pre-committed response to a 20% drop tomorrow (buy more, hold, or sell — and why). Written in your voice, direct, no hedging.

Portfolio Reality Check Skill

The selloff question most people ignore until it's too late. Paste your holdings with allocation %; Claude identifies which positions would all drop together (you're making the same bet multiple times), sector concentration risk, single-factor vulnerability per position, and exactly which 2 positions to cut to reduce risk without losing upside. Instructed to assume you're emotionally attached to all of them and tell you the truth anyway.

Sector Theme Mapper Skill

Stop buying tickers — start understanding landscapes. Claude maps any sector/theme: major players and each one's specific angle, which are pure-play bets vs. diversified-with-exposure, whether the TAM is actually growing or recycled from a 2021 pitch deck, risks to the whole theme (not just individual stocks), and the 3 specific tickers to own if you could only hold 3 to capture the trend over 3-5 years.

Valuation Gut Check Skill

Don't overpay because you like the company. Claude identifies the most relevant valuation metrics for THIS specific business type (not a generic DCF), compares current valuation to 3/5-year historical range and closest peers, tells you what growth rate the current price is implying and whether that's realistic, and gives you the obvious-bargain price AND the obvious-expensive price as reference anchors.