Found in review. _merge_amendments rebuilds a period from _MERGED_FIELDS +
_CARRIED_FIELDS alone, so a column in neither list is absent from the merged
row, not just stale — and callers read it with getattr(..., None), which
silently yields None. weighted_avg_diluted_shares was never added when the
market-cap fallback landed (_SNAPSHOT_COLS in the importer was updated, its
counterpart in the derivation was not).
The failure needed both of this branch's fixes at once: a multi-class issuer
with a partial amendment on its latest period (META with a Part-III-only
10-K/A) would silently lose market cap and FCF yield again.
Adds the field, a regression test for that case, and a guard test asserting
the merge/carry lists cover every SnapshotRow field, so the next column added
fails loudly rather than losing data quietly. Confirmed the guard catches the
original bug.
Also from review:
- Expose pe_caveat in the valuation payload, so a P/E suppressed by split
contamination says why instead of looking like missing data (the caveat was
set but never read).
- no_xbrl_filings now names both causes; the old text advised pinning a CIK
override, which is wrong for a genuine new registrant that simply has not
filed yet and clears itself.
- Document that fiscalYearEnd is the issuer's current calendar, so a fiscal-
year-end change degrades old periods (fallback/newest-wins), not current ones.
- Parser-level tests for _select_weighted_avg_shares (shortest-span-wins and
concept priority), which only had derivation-level coverage.
823 unit tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Nine-pass investigation of the 2026-07-23 A5 parity report: for each coverage
gap and wrong value, the root cause traced against live SEC company facts, the
fix, and its live-data validation. Also records the decisions taken (weighted-
average share fallback, keep ASC-606 revenue basis, basic-EPS fallback, keep the
25% split-guard threshold) and what remains genuinely unfixable from this data
(KLAC post-filing split, BRK-B dimensional share count). Includes the source
parity report the findings analyse.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Earnings backfill sourced from the public DoltHub earnings repo at a
pinned commit rather than the FMP API: reproducible for anyone re-running
the study, and it burns no request quota. 12,414 events, 98.6% of symbols
with >=8 announcements, 99.2% paired actual/estimate, no keyed duplicates.
2a earnings-gap diagnostic: INFORMATIONAL, no filter shipped. The
pre-earnings cohort's right tail was better, so the registered
avoid-earnings condition failed. Note the raw 23/266 vs 115/574 incidence
gap is largely a duration confound -- severe losses stop out fast and have
less time to span an announcement -- so it is not evidence that holding
through earnings is safe.
2b SUE: FAIL against the pre-registered +0.03 bar (unconditional IC
+0.0151 over 56 reliable windows, momentum-conditional +0.0213). Signs
stable across eras, so this is a clean null rather than an ambiguous one,
consistent with post-earnings drift having decayed in large caps.
Closes the Tier-1 arc: Task 1 dead on deep evidence, Task 2 dead here,
Task 3 complete as diagnostic. No in-sample research thread remains open.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drop intermediate history-depth reports, sector-residual runners/map/code hooks
(evidence stays in final reports + docs), and slim MacBook helper to ssl/earnings/
prod-book-matrix only. SSL bootstrap and archived research conclusions retained.
Authoritative report history-depth-20260719-103315: race guard pass on deep
research.sqlite. Sector residual still short-window only (no pre-2021); fip sign
flips on broad deep sample; no production retune.
Tier-1 alpha research (local only, no production deploy):
Sector residual momentum: two-factor SPY+sector residual and sector demean signals, IC harness + A/B. Sector resid clears pre-registered bars narrowly (PROMOTE for human wire design only). Sector demean fails t vs market resid.
Earnings: earnings_events backfill (FMP bulk paid; FMP/AV per-symbol), 2a gap diagnostic report-only, 2b SUE IC (PARK; incomplete 48/506 coverage).
History-depth: pre-registered doc + runner for MacBook deep rebuild/harness.
Do not ship production residual or filters from this branch.
Log the 21:14 orphan as a snapshot-build race, rewrite the context table to
authoritative ICs only, and soften the vol-tilt warning. Add extender completion
manifest + breadth refuse guard; strip intermediate/orphaned reports; park the
thread (no book sim, no deploy).
Add lagged/tier/prod-subset/mom-conditional checks on research.sqlite.
Log: unconditional sign is a winner/bleeder tug-of-war; mom-conditional
fip stays negative and reliable; warn on high-vol tilt if universe broadens.
Add research-only snapshot extender, PIT dollar-volume mask for signal IC,
rank-only harness path, fingerprint+breadth runner, and docs. Fingerprint
reproduced IC -0.045 / t -2.91 on prod.sqlite. No production gate/schedule changes.
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