A few people in the DMs asking about equity factor models so here's a short explainer. Let's make it a concrete problem -- you are the risk manager at a big multi-manager hedge fund with ~100 sub-PMs each of whom has a portfolio of 10-50 stocks, long and short.
I personally don't like pca because I find it hard to understand beyond the first 2-3 factors but I know people who do it and seem to be reasonably successful 