Stock Screens

"The time to buy is when there are punch-ups at petrol pumps!"

Can cheap shares in companies with high debt levels actually make good returns?

My Blue Chip Momentum screen has enjoyed a solid quarter and its message for the next three months is "buy quality".

Sale of Kier Living and equity raise bolster balance sheet

My High Quality Large Cap screen has delivered a better-than sixfold return over the past 10 years while traversing the Covid market meltdown better than the wider market

My annual hunt for value plays using Joseph Piotroski’s F-Score has been particularly fruitful this year

The recent market action has been a boon for low-quality value shares, which has left high-quality plays struggling to keep up

Despite all the talk about the demise of value investing, Algy Hall's Contrarian Value screen has done stunningly well over the past decade by sticking by the principle of reversion to the mean

My Safe Yield screen has managed to produce a threefold return over the past decade, illustrating why dividends really matter.

With a post-pandemic recovery in the offing, many PEG ratios look very low. The quality tests recommended by Jim Slater in his classic book The Zulu Principle offer a valuable way to sort the wheat from the chaff.