Top lists
Uncle's Top
Combination of multiple investing strategies provides optimum return. Uncle Top screens for Growth At A Reasonable Price (GARP): Top based on Uncle Stock score, which uses a broad selection of financial ratios. |
Piotroski Top
Joseph Piotroski is known in the investing world for an influential 2000 paper he wrote while at the University of Chicago, entitled Value Investing: The Use of Historical Financial Statement Information to Separate Winners from Losers. In the piece, Piotroski laid out a way to buy and short stocks using several accounting-based criteria. His back-testing showed that the method would have produced returns well above the broader market averages over a two-decade period. Piotroski Top screens for neglected companies: Select winners on low price to book value small caps, by using a simple accounting-based fundamental analysis strategy. |
Greenblatt Top
Joël Greenblatt's latest book, "The Little Book that Beats the Market", refers to an investment strategy of "Magic Formula Investing", which is a fancy name for a simple formula for determining which stocks to buy: "cheap and good companies" with a high earnings yield and a high return on invested capital. He touts the success of his magic formula in his book, citing that it does in fact beat the S&P 500 96% of the time, and has averaged a 17-year annual return of 30.8%. Greenblatt top screens for cheap and good companies: Top list based on Greenblatt's Magic Formula to find companies with a high earnings yield and a high return on invested capital. |
Graham Top
Benjamin Graham (1894 – 1976) was an American economist and professional investor. Graham is considered the first proponent of value investing. Graham top screens for Undervalued stocks: Top Uncle Stock score on stocks satisfying the 4 best performing of Benjamin Graham's selection criteria, using EPS yield, debt, book value and current ratio. |
Slater Top
James Derrick Slater (born March 13, 1929) is an investor. Slater is the author of the well-known popular book of investment The Zulu Principle, focusing on simple techniques for identifying small dynamic growth companies whose shares are at a low price compared to their future prospects. Slater Top 12 selects stocks to buy, using a score that is based on Slater's zulu citeria: EPS stable growth, EPS future growth, EPS yield, PEG, Debt/equity, Current ratio, Gross margin, return on capital employed and Market cap. |
Levermann Top
Underrated stocks. Susan Levermann created a scoring model using Fundamental, Valuation, Psychological and Technical criteria: return on equity, ebit margin, equity ratio, EPS yield, EPS revision and some technical indicators. For Big Caps, a score of +4 creates a buying signal, +2 a selling signal. Small/Mid Caps need +7 to create a buying signal. |
Companies Top
Whatever the price. Investing in the best companies pays off in the long term. Score based on five key figures for a company: net profit margin, revenue growth, return on equity, equity ratio and cash flow coverage ratio. |