The Buried
Footnote Forensic Linguistics Analysis
on Corporate Disclosure Documents
Year-over-Year Drift WPM
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Certainty language minus hedging language in Risk Factors. Positive = assertive, negative = hedging-heavy.

Not enough filings yet to chart a trajectory. The EKG fills in as more filings are ingested for this issuer.

Risk-factor drift item_1a vs prior same-form filing, cosine similarity

  • 40-F 2026-03-31 vs 2025-03-31 99.5% boilerplate
  • 40-F 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-28 99.6% boilerplate
  • 40-F 2024-03-28 vs 2023-03-31 99.4% boilerplate
  • 40-F 2023-03-31 vs 2022-03-31 99.6% boilerplate

Balance-sheet trends inventory, receivables, reserves & impairment vs prior year

  • Receivables building faster than sales FY 2025-12-31
    receivables +652% vs revenue +80% · DSO 1.8→7.4 days
  • Inventory building faster than sales FY 2022-12-31
    inventory +21% vs revenue -11% · DIO 5.9→7.7 days
  • Receivables building faster than sales FY 2021-12-31
    receivables +97% vs revenue +10% · DSO 2.0→3.5 days

Balance-sheet language forensic risk vocabulary shifting in MD&A / financials vs prior year

  • Impairment risk language
    density 2.71→4.1 / 10k chars (52→74 mentions) · new: fair value less costs
  • Inventory risk language + numbers
    density 0.13→0.6 / 10k chars (6→12 mentions) · new: write-down, net realizable value, lower of cost