Thursday, 10 March 2011 20:09
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When we launched our professional-grade global stock screener into free beta, we created a simple screen to identify attractively valued technology companies that we could compare to other well known tech companies.

Specifically, we were looking for companies that met the following criteria:

Field

Operator

Condition

Reasoning

Sector

=

“Technology”

Limit scope to tech sector

Market Capitalization

>

$10,000,000

Remove micro-cap companies

Total Revenue(A) / Employees

>

$500,000

Remove low-margin services and manufacturing companies

Net Income(I)

>

$0

Limit to profitable companies

Current EV/EBITDA

<

10

Remove companies trading at high multiples

Total Debt(I)

<

EBITDA(A)

Very conservative debt threshold

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