Read previewA study found that OpenAI's GPT-4 could perform financial statement analysis and, in some cases, predict a company's future performance better than a human analyst. The analysis didn't include text typically accompanied in quarterly earnings reports, such as the Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) section, the study said. AdvertisementWith the data, Muhn told Business Insider that he and his colleagues could grade how financial analysts performed in their forecasts. For example, the study found that analysts achieved a 53% accuracy in one-month forecasts of the direction of future earnings. So, the multibillion-dollar question: Can LLMs replace human financial analysts?

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Persons: —, Alex Kim, Maximilian Muhn, Valeri Nikolaev —, Muhn, GPT, Kim Organizations: Service, University of Chicago Booth School, Business, Apple, BI