Screening is the application of quantitative criteria to a broad
universe of stocks in order to narrow the list down to a few companies.
As a young investor, the best place to start is to use index funds which track a
broader universe of stocks or bonds as the first step in building an investment portfolio.
Therefore, those stocks with marginally lower yields may have more certain futures while still having the added value of a relatively high yield compared to the
entire universe of stocks.
I could use the EURO STOXX 50 (SX5E: IND), but that's a ridiculously
small universe of stocks, so I'll opt for the Bloomberg Euro 500 (BE500: IND) instead — not as well known, but functionally it gets the job done.]
Global Quality Rank We invest from the broadest possible global
universe of stocks while screening for sufficient liquidity to trade without undue market impact.
«We are disinterested in short - term results and thus have the luxury of focusing our research and purchases on the much less
competitive universe of stocks that have less promise of near - term appreciation, but that have exciting longer - term potential.
The numbers I used were from a DFA research paper and DFA told me these market cap numbers were based on their
investable universe of stocks in this countries based on things like market liquidity and availability of shares to trade in the public markets.
However, just as an experiment, we did apply our current selection criteria (see Selection Rules box) to the
existing universe of stock mutual funds.
Employs sector - specific models to efficiently and unemotionally analyze the
designated universe of stocks, generating objectively - determined buy and sell decisions
My discipline is to stick to a rather
limited universe of stocks — 200 German, Swiss and Austrian, maybe 100 international stocks — which I follow intermittingly and which change only slowly over time.
Using Stockscreen123 I started with the entire
universe of stocks excluding over-the-counter, I ran the following screen to generate a list of 12 potential high yield, dividend growth stocks.
Global Value Rank We invest from the broadest possible
international universe of stocks while screening for sufficient liquidity to trade without undue market impact.
Investing in foreign stocks offer many advantages such as a
wide universe of stocks to choose, higher dividend yields in some markets, different earnings growth rates and potential high growth opportunities, etc..
This process looks like the inverted pyramid pictured below; we start with our entire
known universe of stocks and end what we call the «investible universe.»
The methodology is complicated, but in the broadest terms, it starts with the whole
universe of stocks in a particular market and then gives added weight to smaller companies and those with value characteristics (specifically high book - to - market ratios).
This backtest uses the same filtered
universe of stocks as my recent 5 - Year Average Return on Equity Backtest.
Despite the Dow et al hitting new highs, there's a
large universe of stocks that are plumbing 52 - week and all - time lows.
What about a test where you look if low P / E or P / B strategies with only dividend stocks outperform low P / E or P / B without dividend stocks or the
whole universe of stocks?
If the Irish market offered a larger /
broader universe of stocks, and I had all the blog - time in the world, the Alpha Portfolios would have been constructed in a more genuinely market - neutral fashion.
Your training has brought me clearer views to
the universe of stock trading methods and ideas, and inspired me to further identify where I am and where I want to be in this universe.
James Oberweis depends mostly on the aggregate price / earnings ratio of
his universe of stocks to assess market valuation and thereby predict market direction.
Using StockScreen123, I decided to expand the available
universe of stocks to screen for all non-OTC stocks trading above $ 3.
Traditionally the Dow is considered less risky than
the universe of stocks that comprise the SPX and Naz.
If the volatility is not low enough for you, then you could always expand
the universe of stocks or add a negatively correlated bond ETF, like TLT, into the mix - which I'll leave as an exercise for the interested reader.
In UGMA / UTMA and Coverdell accounts, choices can be made from
the universe of stocks, bonds, mutual funds or exchange - traded funds.
But instead of dividing
the universe of stocks into 10 equal groups he picked 100 stocks with the highest betas and another group of 100 with the lowest betas.
Selecting low single - year price - to - earnings ratios works with the Large Stocks, but not with
the universe of All Stocks.
We've written previously about Chapman's fondness for «asset - rich companies with battered stock prices,» which sees him frequently operating in
the universe of stocks trading below liquidation value.
Screening is the process of applying a set of criteria to
a universe of stocks to filter out those securities that merit a closer look.
From
the universe of stocks in the S&P Capital IQ Database excluding utilities (the «Database»), the Hennessy Cornerstone Value Fund utilizes a quantitative formula to select 50 stocks with the highest dividend yield, which also meet the following criteria:
1) Filter universe: The team begins with
a universe of stocks of approximately 2,400 global companies with market capitalizations greater than $ 2 billion.
Most managers have an initial screen that winnows down
the universe of stocks that they will then use their abilities to analyze.
To form portfolios, each year
the universe of stocks is sorted by performance, over a particular period, and the top 20 % of performers are purchased in equal amounts, held for a year and then the process is repeated.
For Smart Beta Strategies We use
the universe of stocks of the top 1,000 U.S., developed ex U.S., and emerging markets companies by market capitalization for all smart betas with the exception of Fundamental Index ™, for which we use the top 1,000 companies by fundamental size.
They describe the Fund's
universe of stocks and explain why the portfolio is limited to just 60 stocks.
An analyst would evaluate the data and ratios in comparison to
the universe of stocks available.