Screener is a great way to find stocks you may not normally consider.
To get to the screener, open the left navigation panel and click the first button that says 'Screener' at the top of the navigation list. Once opened, you will see the screener criteria fields. You can use as many or as few criteria as you want in our screener. If you need inspiration, click the drop-down menu on the cloud icon in the upper right corner and choose our Predefined Screener Criteria.
You can also save and name your screener criteria or load any previously saved criteria. Once you've entered the criteria you want the screener to use, click 'Run.' At the bottom of the page, a list of companies that meet your criteria will appear.
Screener criteria you can use:
Company Countries — Leave 'Countries, Sectors, and Industries' blank to search across all markets and sectors, or select exclude to omit them. Specifying these filters narrows your search to selected areas.
Exchanges— Include or omit specific market exchanges.
Sectors — If you're interested in one or a few sectors, you can filter for them or exclude them. Examples of sectors include Technology, Financial Services, and Healthcare.
Industries — Filter for particular industries where you may want to run your screener. These include Construction, Consumer Electronics, and Steel.
Market Capitalization — To filter companies, specify a minimum or maximum market cap. Typing "b" for billions and "m" for millions helps refine the search to companies of a certain size, though smaller companies might have less data available.
- Historical Data—This is optional, but you can choose from the calendar setting to run the Screener with a specific month.
Additional Criteria
Scrab also provides additional criteria categories to customize your screener run even more. Click the '+ Add Criteria' button and click through each category in the screener to review all available metric criteria. If you want to select a specific metric, simply click on it. You will see a small green checkmark. To remove the additional criteria, simply click 'X' and then run the screener again.
- Popular Metrics - Include Price, EPS Average estimated annual growth in the next 2 years, PS Ratio, PE ratio, and more.
- Cash Flow- Include Cash from Financing, Cash From Investing, Cash from Operations, and more.
- Balance Sheet - Total Assets, Book Value, Tangible Book Value, and Inventory.
- Income Statement - Revenue, Revenue per Share, EPD Diluted, EPS Basic, EBIT.
- Dividends - Dividend Yield, Dividend Payout Ratio.
- Technical Indicators- 20, 50, and 200-day simple Moving Average, Exponential Moving Average, and Relative Strength Index.
- Price & Market Data - Price, All-time High, 1 Day Returns, Market Cap, Volume.
- Valuation - PS Ratio, PE Ratio, PEG Ratio, EV to EBITDA, Price to Book Value.
- Margins & Efficiency - Gross Profit Margin, Operation Margin, Profit Margin, Return on Assets.
- Liquidity & Solvency - Debt to Assets, CFO to DEBT, Quick Ratio, Current Ratio.
- Estimates & Recommendations - Price Target Upside, Annual Actual Revenue, Annual Actual EPS.
- Risk - Historical Sortino, Daily Value at Risk, Historical Monthly Expected Shortfall.
Screener Results and Additional Functions
Note that if no companies match your screener criteria, you will see a message listing no matches found. If this happens, adjust your criteria settings. Now that you have run the screener and have a few companies for results, you can do a few things (to select multiple companies, single-click on as many individual company lines as you want):
Scoring: Add all or a select few to one of your scoring models.
Compare 2 or more stocks.
Browse all or selected company details page.
Master, Multi, and Technical charts for all or any selected companies to visualize their metric data.
Filter your screener results in even more.
This can be helpful as, let's say, you are analyzing 2,000 companies. It can be simplified by narrowing your focus to top performers using sorting and filtering tools in Scrab. For instance, you can sort companies by Debt to Assets ratio to find the lowest or use the filter tool to set multiple conditions, like combining Debt to Assets less than 30% with a Current Ratio over 1.5. This narrows down your list effectively. Additionally, you can customize filters with logical operators like AND/OR to handle complex criteria, allowing you to manage lists from broad or specific angles based on your investment strategy.
If needed, you can copy the selected companies to your clipboard or download them as an Excel File! We hope the above tools help you decide whether to buy the stock or keep searching for a better option.