Friday Stock Screen : Great Expectations for Profits

January 18, 2008

It is Friday afternoon and the markets have not been fun to watch. It has been a long week… So, what better way to spend the day than doing some research and combing through a few stock screens. Here is one that may help to generate some ideas.

According to the MSN Money screener, “This search should appeal particularly to “value” investors, but it is biased toward smaller companies and looks across all sectors. It includes parameters such as high return on investment and low debt to equity ratio in order to set a quality bar. The result: Beaten-up stocks with a lot of potential growth ahead.”

Remember, this should be used for idea generation as the market throwing curve-balls and it is hard to trust any one strategy these days.

Criteria for Screen:

P/E Ratio: Current <= 20
Market Capitalization <= $1 billion
Debt to Equity Ratio <= 0.5
EPS Growth Next 5 Yr >= 20
Return on Equity >= 10
Price/Sales Ratio <= 2

Great Expectations Stock Screen

Results: (HSOA) (FRPT) (NTRI) (AEIS) (BRNC) (LNDC) (SMMX) (EXFO) (SLXP)(SIMG) (CTRN) (VVTV) (FMR) (TRID) (VLCM) (ASTE) (ETEL) (GIII) (TWGP) (GIFI) (PRX) (SNHY) (NVTL) (RECN) (HDIX)

Learn how to create and implement stock screens for profitable results.

 

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Horowitz & Company Clients do not hold positions in stocks mentioned.

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2 Responses to “Friday Stock Screen : Great Expectations for Profits”

  1. paolo on January 24th, 2008 5:37 pm

    where do you find the stock screener? The one that I can see on the website isn’t as detailed as you have here. Thanks. great blog.

  2. Andrew Horowitz on January 24th, 2008 7:27 pm

    These are all from the MSN Money site. DELUXE screener. But make sure that you use IE6 or 7 as you need the ActiveX technology to use it.

    Firefox or Safari will not work.

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