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What you can do in the Peers table

  • Peer comparison table — market cap, enterprise value, revenue, EBITDA, revenue growth and TEV/EBITDA multiples by fiscal year, with your company pinned at the bottom above Average and Median rows for the peers.
  • Add peer — add any listed company as a row when the default set misses a name you care about.
  • Add generated column — describe a metric in plain English and Sterling fills that column for every peer.
  • Columns — hide what you don’t need. The table remembers your setup for that company.

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Where to find it

  1. Open the company, then select Research under its name in the left-hand navigation.
  2. Select Peers in the tab bar at the top.

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Using the Peers table

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Read the comparison

Your company is pinned at the bottom of the table, with the Average and Median rows for the peers beneath it.
  • Scroll right to move across the metric groups and fiscal years.
  • Select a column header to sort the peers by it.
  • Compare your company with the Average and Median rows to see where it sits.
  • Select a peer’s ticker to open its own pages. A peer outside Sterling’s coverage shows Not in coverage and doesn’t open.

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Add a peer

  1. Select Add peer at the bottom of the table.
  2. Start typing a name or ticker in Search companies. Companies you’ve viewed recently are marked Recent, and companies already in the table are left out.
  3. Pick the company. It appears as a new row, with its figures filled in where Sterling has data.
To remove a peer, use the remove button at the end of its row.

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Add a metric of your own

  1. Select the + at the right edge of the table.
  2. Describe the metric you want, such as net income or a price-to-earnings ratio.
  3. Confirm. Sterling generates the column for every company in the table and keeps it in your layout.
The + is unavailable while a column or row is being generated.

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Choose which columns to show

Select Columns at the top right of the page.
  • Switch individual fields or whole groups on and off, or use Show all and Hide all.
  • Delete generated columns you no longer need.
  • Select Reset to restore the default columns, order and widths. Your sort and pinned rows stay.

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Tips

  • Start by hiding everything except one valuation group and one growth group. A narrow table makes an outlier obvious. Add columns back once you have a question.
  • If you want a metric that isn’t a standard line item, describe it the way you’d say it to a colleague. The generator works from plain finance language.

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Frequently asked questions

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The page is empty. Where is the table?

Sterling doesn’t have a peer set for that company yet, so the page shows “No peers available”. You can still research the company from its other Research tabs.

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Can I compare against a company Sterling doesn’t cover?

Yes. Add peer searches all listed companies. A peer outside Sterling’s coverage appears as a row with the figures Sterling has, shows Not in coverage, and doesn’t open its own pages.

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Do my added peers and columns show up for other companies?

No. The layout, added peers and generated columns are saved per company, so each table stays tailored to that name.