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stock screening criteria

This seems to be good times for stock picking... quite a few give reliable out performance. Anyone care to share stock screening criteria?

I'm especially looking for convenient numbers that can knock out otherwise atractive candidates. Not so simple as a high pe which some good stocks have, but more like peg ratios... although i dont understand what units they use to calculate growth.

I avoid stocks with concave up, exponential share price growth, but hard to put a number to that. Its not captired by volatility because i want a linear outperformance over the averages.

Im very unhappy with canned stock screeners that i tried... if i filter by peg ratios, they omit ones with unavailable ratios for instance. They do the exact opposite for unknowns than what is useful. Well, that means every one else is using crippled tools too. Thanx

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dumbstruck
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For the mostly buy-and-holder (hence not seeking short-term gains): One may google for Benjamin Graham's criteria. Graham criteria indicates the market is overvalued. I continue to sell half of many positions that have become too large a fraction of my portfolio. I am letting the cash sit until P/Es in particular come down. Else I ponder the seeming weather pattern and what it is supposed to do to food prices. I think the lower income classes are going to see things get worse. I know I am lucky, with my portfolio, to not have to work for my income. I am returning to volunteering teaching those who want to get their GED, prepping them for the math section; majors at the local community college; and how to apply to same; in particular. I expect this will be my best investment in the economy for the immediate future. More education for one's community translates to greater company profits; lower health care costs; less crime (costing me less in taxes); and so on. I understand studies have translated the return-on-investment of every dollar put into this level of education. I am a volunteer but the programs with which I work need money for building space, school materials, helping students pay for taking the GED, etc. I am told the ROI is stunning. I write this with a straight and sober face.

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honda.lioness

As a volunteer doing Medicare Counseling and Tax Counseling I have do agree that there is a lot of joy in helping those who want to helped and are glad that the help is available.

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Avrum Lapin

google for Benjamin Graham's criteria. Graham criteria indicates the market is overvalued. I continue to sell half of many positions that have become too large a fraction of my portfolio. I am letting the cash sit until P/Es in particular come down. Else I ponder the seeming weather pattern and what it is supposed to do to food prices. I think the lower income classes are going to see things get worse. I know I am lucky, with my portfolio, to not have to work for my income. I am returning to volunteering teaching those who want to get their GED, prepping them for

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dumbstruck

performance. Anyone care to share stock screening criteria?

There are too many good criteria and if you can do better than average on the right ones you should get better than average results.

A wide moat is great because the company isn't likely to have negative earnings and will do well against competitors.

A low price to tangible book shows that the stock isn't over priced.

A high return on equity means that the company can grow on its own earnings.

Growing revenues means that the company is growing and because of accelerated depreciation earnings are higher than reported.

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Ron Peterson

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