Stock Screens
What's your stock screen, people?
Include the qualitative, but especially, your quantitative requirements. I dont pretend to be a stock guru, but i will share what i've found to work for me. Yahoo has a basic stock screener, other web sites may have more sophisticated ones (lemme know if u found a good one)
Mine:
For non-high-tech/biotech stocks:
LT Debt/Equity < 0.5, PEG (ratio of PE to antic 5 yr growth rate) < 0.90, no rash of recent insider sales, PE < 20. (see PSUN going forward, ANF's recent perf)
For technology/biotech:
Lots of cash, solid intellectual property/pipeline, very little debt (MLNM, HGSI, MYGN, PLCM). It's difficult. Intrastructure plays have done the best (AFFX). And ah, the ones that got away :( (DNA, STJ)
Depressed Stocks:
Solid product, Losing not too much $ based on cash on hand, very little debt, book value at or near stock price, cash not far behind (look at OSTE as an example going forward, CC (circuit city) as a stock bought on this basis a while back)
(stock village disclaimer: Allah knows best)
Include the qualitative, but especially, your quantitative requirements. I dont pretend to be a stock guru, but i will share what i've found to work for me. Yahoo has a basic stock screener, other web sites may have more sophisticated ones (lemme know if u found a good one)
Mine:
For non-high-tech/biotech stocks:
LT Debt/Equity < 0.5, PEG (ratio of PE to antic 5 yr growth rate) < 0.90, no rash of recent insider sales, PE < 20. (see PSUN going forward, ANF's recent perf)
For technology/biotech:
Lots of cash, solid intellectual property/pipeline, very little debt (MLNM, HGSI, MYGN, PLCM). It's difficult. Intrastructure plays have done the best (AFFX). And ah, the ones that got away :( (DNA, STJ)
Depressed Stocks:
Solid product, Losing not too much $ based on cash on hand, very little debt, book value at or near stock price, cash not far behind (look at OSTE as an example going forward, CC (circuit city) as a stock bought on this basis a while back)
(stock village disclaimer: Allah knows best)



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