A: Thank you for your insightful question and for your interest in Sterling Stock Picker! We truly appreciate your time and your thoughtful approach to stock analysis.

Our Northstar Guidance Scoring is designed to provide a comprehensive, multi-faceted evaluation of stocks using 15 primary metrics across three core categories:

✅ Fundamental Analysis – Examines key financial health indicators like earnings, revenue growth, and profitability.
✅ Financial Metrics – Evaluates valuation ratios, cash flow strength, and balance sheet stability.
✅ Technical Indicators – Assesses price action, trend strength, and momentum-based signals.

Each stock is cumulatively scored based on these three areas, and in the detailed stock view, you can see breakdowns of how each category contributes to the overall rating.

In addition to these core metrics, our system also tracks:
📌 Community Interest – See what other investors are watching and following.
📌 Industry Best & Most Widely Held Stocks – Identify sector leaders and high-conviction stocks.

At the moment, we do not include the Sharpe Ratio as one of our built-in indicators, but we’re always expanding our analytical tools. Your suggestion is a great one, and I will be sharing it with our development team for future consideration.

As for pulling in and analyzing data from major industry sources, we currently focus on providing proprietary stock ratings, in-depth financial breakdowns, and AI-driven insights via FinleyAI. However, integrating external datasets from platforms like Morningstar, FT, Seeking Alpha, and other leading financial sources is something we are open to exploring in the future.

We appreciate you taking the time to check out Sterling Stock Picker, and we’d love to hear your feedback as you test it out! Let us know if there’s anything else we can assist with.

Happy investing! 🚀📈