Good morning bear.
Yes, I like your suggestion to see more comparison between companies (in the same or even different industries) too.
I had been practising the "punch card" concept and hence super concentrated portfolio. And, precisely, before I vested, I just compare my "newly" found ideas with those ideas which I had already vested.
I typically favor the "newly" found ideas to be in different sector/industry from those already vested - for a simple reason - I picked the best for that sector/industry and the 2nd best would not make a lot of sense to me (to buy since I already gotten the best).
Unfortunately, I'm not a financial/investment analyst and so my comparison is based on very simple (aka common) matrix (financial ration, business ratio, management track records and dividend history, etc).
These simple matrices, plus the urge not to "punch" a stock hastily, had been very rewarding to me.
I guess, this is the part that although I like to see more sharing from valuebuddies on the comparison between stocks, in actual facts, the best way to learn is to do the comparison myself.
As a learning journey, I realised that being a valuebuddies, I got to identify and brought stocks at a discount, not because the stock is good but because the stock is undervalue and not discovered/covered by financial/investment analyst.
Routinely, I read those published papers and routinely, they are just in the back of my mind. I rarely took actions aka brought the stocks. Instead, I would run thru those interesting stocks against my simple metrics and see whether it passed my criteria - almost 100% got gun down.
Rarely, the stock could pass my simple metrics. And, if it does, then I will put them in to the fighting pitch with my vested stocks - and compare one-by-one. Rarely, they are able to win over my vested stocks.
Occasionally, when they are able to make it - most of the time - is because it's a initial reports (by the analyst) and there are not many people paying attentions and the company is turning around (e.g. new biz opportunity or results), then I would just punch my card and buy until I am happy or when the stock price started to move upward (which I am even more happy).
So far, my simple metrics and method works and although I love to read valuebuddies doing the comparison, I found it more satisfying to uncover a undervalue gem which is not discovered.
Stay safe and stay healthy everyone.
Have a nice weekend, enjoy: