Eight-quarter trend: revenue, EPS, margin, free cash flow.
Revenue, EPS, margin, FCF — 8 trailing quarters, 2x2 grid.
Quarterly revenue, eight quarters. Growth accelerating = expanding TAM or share gains. Decelerating from a high level = early sign of maturity / capacity ceiling.
Diluted EPS quarterly. Watch for divergence from revenue: revenue up + EPS flat = margins compressing. Revenue flat + EPS up = buybacks or operating leverage.
Net margin trend. Steel band shows the sector median. Expanding margin above sector = structural advantage; compressing margin = commoditisation pressure.
Quarterly FCF — the closest thing to economic reality on the income statement. Diverging from net income up = aggressive accruals (red flag); diverging down = working-capital build (often benign, sometimes inventory glut).
“GF is the feeder cattle future, fifty thousand pounds, where each cent of the quote is worth five hundred dollars.”
Quarterly financial history laid out as a 2×2 grid of trend charts. Each chart plots the last eight quarters, with the latest bar emphasized so trajectory is readable at a glance.
add gf.AAPL GF, NVDA GRAPH, or MSFT FAHIST.The four charts together answer the question "is this company improving or deteriorating QoQ?" — across revenue, earnings, profitability, and cash.
GF is the trajectory. For the current-quarter snapshot — PE, margins, balance sheet, returns — use Fundamentals.