Monday, January 7, 2008

Best Stock Screeners

There are thousands of stocks trading every day. How do you choose few stocks from this huge list? The first step is to come up with a screening criteria. See here for examples of preset screens:

http://screener.finance.yahoo.com/presetscreens.html

If you know your screening criteria, you can use this screener to create a short list of stocks you can start investigating. This is one of my favorite stock screeners (and it is free):

http://screener.finance.yahoo.com/fscr/us/launch.html

MSN Delux screener is also pretty good. You need to install 'MSN Money Investment Toolbox'. Here's the link for that:
http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/controls/finderpro.asp

3 comments:

spreadsheet said...

I like the yahoo screen but find that its a little bit limited. I've been running an excel-based screen that pulls numbers from Yahoo but can do workarounds on the limitations they built into their screens.
http://www.valueinvestingplanet.com/groups/valueinvestingplanet/screener.xls

spreadsheet said...

For some reason the link got cut off. Click on my name to see the file.

OneMinuteMan said...

Thanks spreadsheet!