Screens to find stocks during the coming cooler days

With winter on our doorstep down south in Melbourne I will have plenty of time to spend indoors. Rather than watch the idiot box, I would rather use my time productively to find some stocks that perhaps I have never heard of before, but require some focus and attention.

The best way to do this is by running screens in Stockopedia to find a shortlist of companies that meet particular traits that I can investigate further. Unlike the Folios where its functionality is dependent on the stocks I identify and record, with the Screens tool the opportunities are presented to me irrespective of my biases or prior knowledge based on the criteria I select.

A screen is not the final step… it is the first.

First thing I just want to articulate is that I never run a Screen and buy a list of stocks blindly.

To use a Property analogy, I don’t buy houses ‘site unseen’. Rather I would prefer to have a list of properties presented to me and then I inspect and assess each on their merits.

The Screen Tool works in exactly the same way. You will have a list of potential assets...