# Sterling > Sterling is a financial analytics platform that tracks 500+ companies across 28 sectors, with curated company-specific KPIs and hosted SEC filings. Available at https://sterlingcharts.com ## About Sterling tracks 500+ companies across 28 sectors with standardized financial metrics and company-specific operational KPIs (for example iPhone unit sales for Apple, or vehicle deliveries for Tesla). Data is sourced from SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q), official earnings releases, and regulatory disclosures, and is presented as interactive charts with 10+ years of history. Charts, company pages, sector reports, and comparisons are free. No account is required to browse. ## Core Features - **Financial Metrics**: Revenue, net income, gross profit, operating income, EPS, margins, free cash flow, debt-to-equity, and more. - **Company-Specific KPIs**: Operating metrics that GAAP statements omit, curated from filings and earnings reports. - **Company Comparison**: Side-by-side financials for any tracked companies, with an interactive Mega Chart overlay. - **Sector Analysis**: Hand-curated sector reports with rankings, market share, strategy commentary, and sourced charts. - **SEC Filing Analysis**: Hosted 10-K and 10-Q filings, with optional AI-powered Q&A on Pro. - **Interactive Charts**: Quarterly and annual views, growth rates, and exports. ## Pricing All companies, charts, sector reports, and comparisons are free. Sterling Pro is $19/month or $149/year and unlocks the Sterling AI assistant (answers grounded in Sterling data and SEC filings). Cancel anytime. No contracts, no hidden fees. ## Sector Reports ### AI & Compute - [AI Chips](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/ai-chips): Explore the companies designing the chips that power artificial intelligence. From GPUs to custom accelerators, discover who's enabling the AI revolution. - [AI Software](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/ai-software): AI Software covers the layer of the AI stack above the chip: the labs that build foundation models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, xAI, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen), the cloud and inference platforms that serve those models at scale (Azure AI, AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI, CoreWeave, Nebius, Together, Fireworks), the data and ML platforms that connect models to enterprise data (Databricks, Snowflake, MongoDB, HuggingFace, Scale), and the application companies that turn intelligence into product (ChatGPT, Cursor, Perplexity, Glean, Harvey, Sierra, Adobe Firefly, Salesforce Agentforce, Microsoft 365 Copilot). The sector spans both the frontier-lab revenue race and the much larger pool of AI revenue embedded inside Big Tech earnings, plus a fast-growing private-company universe that includes most of the highest-valued AI startups. - [Data Centers](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/data-centers): The physical layer of the AI boom: the landlords, power providers, equipment makers, and hardware vendors turning roughly $380B a year of hyperscaler capital into powered, cooled, connected capacity. This is not one industry but six value chains pulled by the same demand: colocation and REITs, power generation and gas supply, electrical gear, cooling, construction, and the servers and networking that fill the racks. The binding constraint has shifted from chips to electricity. - [Enterprise Software](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/enterprise-software): Enterprise software is the roughly $1.25 trillion economy of applications businesses run on: ERP, CRM, HR and payroll, IT service management, observability, developer tools, and the vertical systems behind governments, hospitals, and banks. The sector built the most prized business model in public markets, recurring subscriptions with high margins and high retention, mostly priced per human seat. Agentic AI now forces the question of whether seat-based software gets repriced, displaced, or expanded. - [Cybersecurity](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/cybersecurity): Track enterprise cybersecurity as a consolidation race. Palo Alto, CrowdStrike, Fortinet, and Cisco (plus Splunk) are pulling the stack into platforms, while Microsoft Entra/Defender and Google (Wiz) take wallet as attach. The investment question is who owns the CISO budget versus who is bundled into the cloud and network bill. - [Quantum](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/quantum): Quantum computing is moving from physics experiment to a commercializing industry, with a wave of 2026 public listings and the first merchant quantum foundries. This sector tracks the public pure-plays, the diversified incumbents, and the major private players across the competing qubit modalities, the hardware supply chain, applications, and the post-quantum-cryptography threat that is forcing a mandated migration regardless of when the hardware matures. ### Energy & Power - [Nuclear](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/nuclear): Track the global civilian nuclear-power industry: operating fleets, the new wave of small modular and advanced reactors, the uranium and enrichment supply chain, hyperscaler power deals reshaping demand, and the fusion developers racing to commercial net energy. - [Regulated Utilities](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/utilities-regulated): Regulated electric and gas utilities own the poles, wires, and power plants that deliver energy to nearly every US home and business, earning a state-approved return on every dollar of infrastructure they build. After two decades of flat demand, data centers, reshored manufacturing, and electrification have pushed the industry into a rate-base supercycle: record capital budgets, sharply higher load forecasts, and a new political fight over who pays for the buildout. - [Oil & Gas](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/oil-gas): The industry that still supplies most of the world's energy, tracked across its five segments: integrated majors, exploration and production, refining, midstream, and oilfield services. The investment story is capital discipline: after a decade of overspending, the industry now returns cash instead of chasing growth, while AI datacenter power demand has pulled natural gas back into the growth conversation. ### Resources & Materials - [Copper & Critical Minerals](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/critical-minerals): The metals that electrification, the grid and data centers cannot be built without, and the companies that dig them up. Copper is the bottleneck: no substitute at scale, decade-long lead times to new supply, and demand rising from three directions at once. The uncomfortable counterpoint is that strategic importance and profitability are different things, and at current prices lithium and rare earth producers are losing money while copper miners earn 25 to 52 percent margins. - [Gold & Precious Metals](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/precious-metals): Gold, silver, platinum and palladium, and the companies that mine and finance them. Gold is the only major asset priced almost entirely on what money is worth rather than on what it produces, which is why its drivers are real interest rates, central bank reserve buying and ETF flows rather than industrial demand. The sector splits into two very different businesses: miners who operate assets at mid-40s margins, and royalty companies who finance them at nearly 70%. ### Industrials & Automation - [Industrial Automation](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/industrial-automation): The companies automating factories, plants, and infrastructure: PLCs and robots on the discrete side, control systems and instrumentation on the process side, the industrial software layer above both, and the electrical equipment powering it all. Demand now runs on three structural bids at once: reshoring and megaproject capex, electrification, and a manufacturing labor shortage that makes automation the only way to staff the plants being built. - [Humanoid Robots](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/humanoids): The race to build general-purpose humanoid robots — from Tesla Optimus to Figure AI, Agility Robotics, and China's fast-growing ecosystem. Explore specs, funding, economics, and the supply chain behind the next frontier of AI. ### Mobility - [Electric Vehicles](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/ev): Explore the companies driving the electric vehicle revolution. Discover key players, compare product lineups, and track the shift from combustion to electric. - [Charging](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/charging): Explore the companies building the charging networks that power electric vehicles. Compare network coverage, charging speeds, and the race to deploy infrastructure worldwide. - [Batteries](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/batteries): Explore the companies powering EVs and the energy grid. From lithium suppliers to next-gen solid-state innovators, discover who's shaping the future of energy storage. - [Autonomy](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/autonomy): Discover the companies building self-driving technology and advanced driver assistance systems. Compare approaches from vision-only to lidar, and track the road to full autonomy. - [Semi Trucks](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/trucks): The electrification of Class 8 heavy-duty trucking — from Tesla Semi and Freightliner eCascadia to fuel cell alternatives from Nikola and Hyundai. Tracking OEM production ramps, fleet adoption, charging infrastructure buildout, TCO economics, and the regulatory push toward zero-emission freight. ### Aerospace & Space - [Commercial Aerospace](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/aerospace): Commercial aerospace is the industry that builds the world's airliners: the Boeing and Airbus duopoly, the engine oligopoly whose aftermarket annuities outearn the engines themselves, and the supplier chain both depend on. A backlog of more than 15,000 aircraft, roughly a decade of production, has collided with a supply chain still broken from the pandemic and Boeing's quality crisis, leaving airlines short of jets and delivery slots effectively sold out into the 2030s. - [Defense](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/defense): Track the world's defense contractors — primes, specialists, and the new wave of defense-tech disruptors. Explore spending by country, major procurement programs, and the technologies (drones, autonomy, hypersonics, AI) that are reshaping how nations project power. - [Space](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/space): The commercial space economy is shifting from government-funded missions to private, reusable, recurring-revenue businesses. This sector tracks the public pure-plays and the major private players across launch, satellite communications, earth observation, direct-to-cell connectivity, and lunar access. - [Orbital Data Centers](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/orbital): Computing infrastructure deployed in orbit to process satellite data in real-time, leverage unlimited solar power, and free radiative cooling. The sector reached an inflection point in late 2025 with the first GPU (NVIDIA H100) and first LLM trained in space, followed by SpaceX filing for a 1-million-satellite orbital DC constellation. ### Finance & Health - [Insurance](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/insurance): Track the global insurance industry: P&C carriers riding the auto-recovery cycle, health insurers absorbing the UnitedHealth shockwave, Berkshire's float and succession, climate-driven catastrophe losses reshaping coverage, and the insurtech disruption story anchored by Lemonade. Covers public carriers, brokers, reinsurers, and the most-funded private insurtechs. - [Crypto](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/crypto): Track the global crypto sector through its public-equity wrappers. Coinbase and Robinhood as retail-flow proxies, Strategy and Metaplanet as leveraged Bitcoin treasuries, the public Bitcoin miners pivoting to AI/HPC hosting, Circle as the first listed stablecoin issuer, BlackRock and Fidelity as the asset managers behind the spot ETFs, plus the banks and fintechs that now custody digital assets after the SAB 121 rescind. Tokens (BTC, ETH, SOL, USDT, USDC) are tracked as data entities across stablecoin supply, ETF flows, mining hashrate, and on-chain metrics. - [GLP-1](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/glp-1): Track the global GLP-1 sector. Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk dominate class revenue while late-stage challengers race oral, monthly, and combination assets to market. The investment story spans peptide CDMOs, autoinjector device makers, payers reshaping access (Medicare Part D, the CMS GLP-1 Bridge, IRA negotiation), and cross-sector adjacencies (CPG, life insurance, MASH). - [Vaccines](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/vaccines): Track the global vaccines sector. GSK, Merck, Pfizer, and Sanofi still collect most branded revenue through Shingrix, Gardasil, Prevnar, and Beyfortus, while Moderna and BioNTech fight the seasonal COVID, RSV, and flu market on mRNA. The investment story is franchise mix (respiratory versus endemic), ACIP and Gavi as demand switches, and a pipeline that is now oncology option-value after CMV and norovirus misses. ### Consumer - [Athletic Footwear & Apparel](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/athletic): Athletic footwear and apparel is the business of selling shoes and clothes for sport and the sports-lifestyle that sits next to it. Nike and Adidas still set the scale, but the live fights are elsewhere: running specialists (On, HOKA, ASICS) taking the growth, China local groups (Anta, Li Ning) taking the home market, and a wholesale-to-Direct mix shift that is no longer one-directional. - [Apparel, Fashion & Lifestyle](https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors/apparel): Apparel, fashion, and lifestyle is three consumer theses on one page: fashion and luxury houses (Tapestry, Ralph Lauren, PVH, Capri), specialty apparel retail (Gap, Abercrombie, American Eagle, Urban Outfitters), and lifestyle footwear (Crocs, Birkenstock). Athletic names stay on the Athletic Footwear & Apparel sector. ## Key Pages - Homepage: https://sterlingcharts.com/home - AI info (for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity): https://sterlingcharts.com/ai-info - Alternatives (Sterling vs Koyfin, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, and others): https://sterlingcharts.com/alternatives - All Companies: https://sterlingcharts.com/companies - Compare Tool: https://sterlingcharts.com/compare - Sectors Overview: https://sterlingcharts.com/sectors - Pricing: https://sterlingcharts.com/pricing - API & Integrations: https://sterlingcharts.com/developers ## Data Sources All financial data is sourced from public SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q reports), official company earnings releases, and regulatory disclosures. Data is updated quarterly. Sterling is not a brokerage and does not provide financial advice. ## Contact Website: https://sterlingcharts.com