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Alphascreens: Assessing quality for starters

Our quality screen is a good place to start but at this point in the cycle, investors should ask business specific questions too.
January 21, 2019

There are still 18 companies included in the FTSE All Share index that pass all nine of our Alpha quality screen tests. These vary in size from giants like Unilever (ULVR), Diageo (DGE) and Reckitt Benckiser (RB.) through to smaller companies that reappear with perfect scores on our FTSE All Small Companies Index screen.

 

  • Companies also highlighted by the Small Cap screen are MJ Gleeson (GLE), On the Beach (OTB) and Paypoint (PAY).
  • Further questions investors should ask themselves when assessing results include how companies might fare in a recession as we are at a late stage of the economic cycle and some sectors, such as homebuilders, that are well represented in the screen results could suffer.
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