LLM-ready API
Sample Questions

Sample Questions

Depending on which datasets users are licensed for, they can ask the following questions and more:

  • Company information - name, status, company type, simple industry, number of employees, founding date, webpage, and address
  • Financial statements and line items - the full three financial statements and underlying line items for private and public companies
  • Segments - business specific breakdowns by LOB and geography
  • Competitor and company intelligence - competitors, business descriptions, and alternative company names
  • Business relationships - operational relationships between independent companies
  • Mergers and acquisitions - deal history with granular information on targets, acquirers, and advisors
  • Transcripts - with earnings calls available in raw text or speaker tagged
  • Market data - market pricing data
  • Estimates - consensus estimates and company guidance
  • Rounds of funding - funding raised, participants, advisors, and valuations

Important note

Include at least one identifier (ticker, name, CUSIP, ISIN) in your prompt. The Kensho LLM-ready API is company-object oriented. To retrieve accurate results, your prompt must specify at least one identifier (e.g., "Apple" or "AAPL"). Without a company, responses may be incomplete or ambiguous.

1. Financial Statement Deep Dives

  • What was Microsoft’s EBITDA from 2021 through 2024, and what line items drove the biggest YoY changes?
  • Compare Tesla, Rivian, and Lucid’s gross margins over the past 8 quarters
  • How has Nvidia’s R&D as a percentage of revenue trended over the last 5 years compared to AMD and Intel?

2. Earnings Calls & Transcript Intelligence

  • Summarize the key takeaways from Alphabet’s most recent earnings call, focusing on AI capex and cloud growth
  • Find all mentions of ‘tariffs’ or ‘trade policy’ in Caterpillar’s last 4 earnings transcripts and analyze the tone shift
  • What did Lululemon’s CEO say in their last earnings call about margin headwinds?

3. Segment-Level Analysis

  • Show me Amazon’s operating income by business segment over the last 4 quarters. Which segment is the margin engine?
  • How has Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud revenue trended since Q1 2022?
  • Compare Ford’s ‘Model E’ (EV) segment revenue to their traditional ‘Ford Blue’ segment over the past 2 years

4. Market Data & Valuation Metrics

  • Plot Apple’s total enterprise value for each of the past four fiscal quarters and identify any changes in shares outstanding during the same period
  • Compare Nvidia and AMD’s market cap from 2022 to 2025. Which had higher YoY growth?
  • What was the combined market cap of the Magnificent 7 at year end 2025?
  • Show me Tesla’s shares outstanding trend over the last 3 years

5. Price Analysis & Market Monitoring

  • Show me the 30-day price volatility for Tesla and compare it to other EV manufacturers
  • What was the biggest single-day price drop for Alibaba in the last year?
  • Compare the opening and closing prices of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley over the past month and note the differences in volatility between the two
  • Analyze Nvidia and TSMC stock price trends over the last 6 months — how correlated are they?

6. M&A Transactions & Deal Intelligence

  • When was Google’s acquisition of Wiz announced? Who were the advisors and how was the deal structured?
  • List all acquisitions completed by Nvidia since 2020. Which of them were over $5 billion?
  • How much did Salesforce pay for Slack, and in which year was the deal announced?

7. Competitor & Company Intelligence

  • Who are the competitors for Honeywell?
  • Do Boeing and Lockheed Martin share any common competitors?
  • Give me both the short and detailed business description for Novo Nordisk
  • What are the alternative names and ticker history for S&P Global?

8. Private Company Financials

  • Pull the 2024 income statement for Cambridge Display Technology
  • What was Citibank Korea’s highest quarterly revenue from 2020 through 2024?
  • Give me annual cash from operations for Fujitsu Services Holdings from 2020 to 2024
  • What was the net debt to EBITDA ratio for PD Ports Limited from 2020 to 2023?

9. Consensus Estimates & Earnings Surprises

  • What is the consensus EPS estimate for Apple’s next 3 fiscal years?
  • Compare Netflix’s Q4 2024 revenue: guidance vs. consensus estimate vs. actual. Where was the biggest gap?
  • What was the EPS surprise for Eli Lilly in each of the last 4 quarters?
  • For Meta, show me all available line items with guidance, estimates, and actuals for FY2024

10. Rounds of Funding

  • How much total capital has Stripe raised across all funding rounds to date?
  • Which investors participated in OpenAI’s latest funding round and who was the lead?
  • What were the pre-money and post-money valuations of SpaceX during its Series F?
  • Did Databricks raise an up-round or down-round in its most recent financing? What was the price direction trend?