Taiwan stock overview (des) — a cross-section at one as-of moment, not a verdict
The standard misreading of an overview page is to read a screen of fields as “what this company looks like now”. It is in fact a cross-section at one as-of moment, and each cell in that cross-section carries its own cut-off date: the quote may be yesterday's close, the statement last quarter, the dividend last year's resolution. On naming first: des is this page's URL alias, it points at the same per-stock overview data as overview, and no separate dataset called des exists on this site. With those two things understood the overview becomes useful: it is an index aligned on time, not a composite verdict.
How des maps to overview
des is a URL alias: /feature/des and /feature/overview are two entrances to the same page and return the same per-stock overview data, queried at /v1/overview/{stock_id}, with /v1/overview and /v1/overview/catalog available for listings and the field catalogue.
We put this on the page because two names are easily mistaken for two datasets. To repeat: no separate dataset called des exists on this site; the same fields and the same cut-off dates sit behind both URLs.
The timing problem of a cross-section
An overview places fields of different origin and different update frequency side by side. Quotes are daily, statements quarterly, dividends annual events, ownership weekly or daily. A single timestamp at the top of the page would imply the whole screen is synchronised, so every field prints its own as-of date and period.
This matters most when looking backwards. Using what you know today to look at the past makes the historical picture more complete than it was for anyone alive at the time; reconstructing what was visible then requires aligning each field on its own announcement moment rather than taking today's latest value.
No composite score and no verdict on quality
We do not add the fields into a score, issue A/B/C grades or rank companies. The trouble with adding them is that the fields have different cut-off dates, so collapsing a cross-period set into one number simply hides the time gap.
A claim such as "the panorama score shows quality" will never appear here, because a cross-section cannot support it. All a cross-section can say is what each field read at this as-of moment and how far each one is current.
What this page must not be used for
No ranking, no screening, no price targets, no entry or exit timing, no forecasts. A complete set of fields does not mean the price will rise, and missing fields do not mean weak fundamentals — a gap is often just an item that has not reached its announcement date.
The right use is as a starting point for aligning time: read how current each cell is, then decide which fields may legitimately appear in the same sentence. Two numbers from different periods were never the same thing.