Competitive Intelligence Analysis
Generate a deeper dive into a stock's market dynamics and competition
Last Updated: 19 Sep 2025
Objective:
Build a comprehensive understanding of the market a company operates it, its definition and structure, competitive intensity, growth rate and key drivers, main competitors including relative strengths and weaknesses, market share trends, and recent developments.
Explanation:
Competitive intelligence is one of the first and most important steps to truly understanding a stock. This analysis defines the market a company plays in and how its products and services stack up against rivals. By analyzing the market, sizing it, and pinpointing the basis of competition, you see exactly where the firm wins, where it’s vulnerable, and why. This prompt looks to compare company offerings on price, performance, distribution, interoperability, and switching costs so the investor can get a tangible handle on the market dynamics. It also surfaces concrete risks (share loss, regulation, supply constraints) and actionable opportunities (under-served segments, channel openings, pricing power). It synthesizes a measure of competitive intensity using HHI and Five Forces presents a clean competitor table and short profiles, TCO benchmarks, and dated catalysts and ends with clear implications and a watchlist. Use it to ground any investment thesis in competitive reality.
As always, be aware that models can make mistakes. At each step, examine the response and challenge information or conclusions that appear erroneous before proceeding to any subsequent steps. If in doubt use a second model with the same prompt to verify the information and generate challenge questions and answers (CoVe process) to correct interpretations of data.
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Preferred Model(s):
ChatGPT-5+ or Gemini on Deep Research mode
Important Execution Notes:
Add in the company name and stock code where indicated.
Optional: Under Inputs section, the user can add their own market identification for the company if they feel it is highly specific. Copy the same notation from the Company name line in the inputs and add market identifer within the quare brackets.
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