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Question #4: What Is a Stock or Mutual Fund Screen?

Finding companies with track records that make them worth studying is a challenge. You can use the Internet and PC-based stock or mutual fund screening tools to whittle down the universe of stock to a manageable few candidates. You can then analyze your short list of stocks for gems that may bring you above-average returns.

Screens allow you to ask questions about stocks that were too hard to answer without computerized databases. Stock screens can help you answer these questions.

The Internet provides a variety of stock screens. Some are easy-to-use, and others are more complex. The more advanced stock screens require some learning time. Web-based stock screens may require between two and 30 variables. Their computerized stock databases can include anywhere from 1,100 stocks to more than 9,000 stocks. Additionally, some computerized stock databases are updated daily, weekly, or monthly. The stock screen that is best is the one that includes your personal investment criteria.

A Few Examples of Online Screens:

* Yahoo! Stock Screen http://screener.finance.yahoo.com/newscreener.html is located in the Yahoo! Stock Research Center. You can create your own screens with over 150 different screening criteria, see result immediately when you run or change screens. For example you can use the stock screener to search stocks by industry, index membership, share data such as price, market cap, beta, and so on.

* Google Finance: Stock Screener  http://finance.google.com/finance/stockscreener is located at Google's Finance Home. You can find the perfect stocks for your portfolio with the new stock screener from Google Finance. you can use criteria like: market capitalization, the P/E ratio, the most recently reported trade prices, gross margins and select the values interactively.

* MSN Investor http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/finder/customstocksdl.asp has a stock screen called Investment Finder that searches 8,000 companies to find securities that meet your specific criteria. The program uses dozens of variable combinations. There are two levels of stock screens. The first is ready for immediate use. The second is a more advanced screen, called the Deluxe Stock Screener. The Deluxe Stock Screener requires your registration and the downloading of special software. The good news is that both stock screens are free.

 


                                                              

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