Hi Jason,

Amazing article, please accept my heartfelt gratitude for this piece and all the advice within! There couldn't have been a better time for me to come across this, especially since I am just starting my career in finance. I was a bit confused about the approach I should take to develop the skills required for research & analysis but this article certainly brought things into perspective.

I would be thankful if you could help me with a quick novice question -You have mentioned that when you started out, you used primary data sources like the 10k for the analysis. Could you please give me a few pointers on how you went through the the statements and any specific information bits you looked for in the report? Any blogs, books, articles, etc on this would be helpful too. I am currently trying to analyze a pharma company by going through its 10k and things get a bit confusing from time to time! I am an L2 candidate and have no experience with investment research, so my knowledge is very limited. It would be great to soak up any piece of info I can get my hands on at this point :)

Thanks again for the article and look forward to hear from you!

Kind regards,
Gaurang