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 |
We can configure the Screener.co stock screener to find mid and large cap growth companies trading on US exchanges with reasonable valuation multiples. We can start with the following criteria:
|
Field
|
op
|
Criteria
|
|
Exchange Country
|
=
|
"USA"
|
|
Exchange Traded On
|
!=
|
"Over The Counter"
|
|
Growth rate- Revenue-3 year
|
>
|
20%
|
|
Revenue Change-TTM over TTM
|
>
|
15%
|
|
Revenue-trailing 12 month
|
>
|
$100,000,000
|
|
P/E excluding extraordinary items-TTM
|
<
|
20
|
We can use the Screener.co stock screener to find companies whose current assets less total liabilities are greater than 80% of its market cap, that are also profitable, growing, and traded on U.S. exchanges. To do this, we set up the following screen:
|
Field
|
op
|
Criteria
|
|
Exchange Country
|
=
|
"USA"
|
|
Total Current Assets (I) - Total Liabilities (I)
|
>
|
Market capitalization * 0.8
|
|
Earnings per Share, Normalized, Excluding Extraordinary Items, Avg. Diluted Shares Outstanding-TTM
|
>
|
0
|
|
Exchange Traded On
|
!=
|
"Over The Counter"
|
|
Revenue Change-TTM over TTM
|
>=
|
0
|
