Ya, that's likely correct. It's all about how you transform the data you feed into the model, and which data you choose to look at, not to mention how you group

Ya, that's likely correct. It's all about how you transform the data you feed into the model, and which data you choose to look at, not to mention how you group companies together. That part is huge too. Once you've done all that correctly, off the shelf ML models will solve your problem just fine.