The MAGNET Simple screen has an average monthly turnover rate of 66.3 %, meaning that almost seven in 10 companies are new to the portfolio each month.
The MAGNET Simple screen's best single - month return has been 52.1 % and it has lost as much as 30.0 % in one month.
A newcomer to our collection of stock screens walked away with the title of Top - Performing Screen for 2009: the reasonably priced sales growth and price momentum
MAGNET Simple screen of Jordan Kimmel.
In order to pass the AAII
MAGNET Simple screen, a company's current valuation (price - earnings ratio) can not be more than 50 % of its estimated annualized growth rate in earnings for the next three to five years.
While it is hard to ignore
the MAGNET Simple screen's performance over the last 11 - plus years, an approach with such a small number of passing companies is nearly impossible to implement in order to create a diversified portfolio.
The 14.0 % monthly standard deviation of returns for
the MAGNET Simple screen is the highest figure among all AAII stocks screens, tied with the Murphy Technology screen.
In other words, it appears that you may be assuming too much risk for the returns being generated by
the MAGNET Simple screen.
This is also evident with
the MAGNET Simple screen, which lost 70.2 % in 2008.
For momentum investors,
the MAGNET Simple screen looks for high price momentum over the last three months and 12 months.
As a rule, PEG values below 1.0 are considered undervalued, and
the MAGNET Simple screen looks for companies with a forward PEG ratio of less than or equal to 0.5.
Kimmel's
MAGNET Simple screen calls for companies to have revenue growth of at least 15 % over the last 12 months.
In order to pass
the MAGNET Simple screen, a company needs to rank in the top 10 % of all companies in terms of relative price strength over the last 13 and 52 weeks.
Since the beginning of 1998, three companies, on average, have passed
the MAGNET Simple screen each month and two have passed the MAGNET Complex screen.
The final element of
the MAGNET Simple screen is price momentum.
Table 2 lists the eight companies passing
the MAGNET Simple screen as of July 10, 2009 [no companies pass the MAGNET Complex screen at this time].
Over the last year, the median of the current group of companies passing
the MAGNET Simple screen has outperformed the S&P 500 by 162 %, while the typical exchange - listed stock has underperformed the S&P by 2 %.
Not exact matches
The
magnets are strong enough to keep the tablet and keyboard attached if you pick the system up by its
screen with one hand, but also easy enough to detach with a
simple two - handed tug (one hand on the keyboard, the other gripping the tablet).
Table 1 includes monthly turnover data for both the
Simple and Complex
MAGNET screens, based on the backtesting results.
Figure 1 reports backtesting results for both the
MAGNET Simple and
MAGNET Complex
screens, both of which have outperformed the various S&P market cap indexes by a wide margin since the start of 1998.
As part of our AAII Stock
Screens series, AAII developed two MAGNET screens — a Simple MAGNET screen, and a more stringent Complex MAGNET screen — using AAII's Stock Investor Pro fundamental stock screening and research database p
Screens series, AAII developed two
MAGNET screens — a Simple MAGNET screen, and a more stringent Complex MAGNET screen — using AAII's Stock Investor Pro fundamental stock screening and research database p
screens — a
Simple MAGNET screen, and a more stringent Complex
MAGNET screen — using AAII's Stock Investor Pro fundamental stock
screening and research database program.
This means that, based on the Sharpe ratio, the
MAGNET Simple approach ranks just 23rd out of the 60 AAII stock
screens.