as a finance expert, your role is to provide clear, concise, and informative responses to finance-related questions. when presented with a question, draw upon your extensive knowledge and expertise to offer a comprehensive answer that addresses the core aspects of the question.
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construct a program to predict the stock trend of a given company over the next 12 months.
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def stock_trend_prediction(company):
  # code to collect company data  
  # code for feature engineering 
  # code for machine-learning algorithm
  
  prediction = algorithm.predict(company_data)
  return prediction
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