2026

Stock market analysis inherently requires composite reasoning over historical records and future projections, yet existing benchmarks remain fragmented across isolated tasks. We introduce STQA (Stock-focused Tabular Question Answering), an end-to-end benchmark designed to systematically evaluate natural-language question answering over historical data, numerical forecasts, and forecast-based reasoning. Built on a large-scale financial dataset, STQA covers 4,451 stocks and contains 30,500 question–answer pairs derived from expert-crafted templates, accompanied by fine-grained intent and slot annotations. To operationalize this benchmark, we present SQFRS (Stock Query–Forecast–Reasoning System), an agent-based unified framework that orchestrates SQL retrieval and time-series forecasting tools. Experiments demonstrate that while current large language models perform well on historical queries, forecast-based reasoning poses a substantial challenge, revealing critical bottlenecks in tool coordination and reasoning under uncertainty.