The steps that you are about to embark upon will allow you to screen stocks:
- First, choose some stock screening criteria, that is, a way to select the stocks within the finviz dataset that we feel have the potential to be good investments. Here is some sample criteria to start with:
- Only US companies
- Price per share between $20 and $100
- Volume greater than 10,000
- Positive earnings per share currently and projected for the future
- Total debt to equity ratio less than 1
- Beta less than 1.5
- Institutional ownership less than 30 percent
- Relative valuation index value greater than 8
- As mentioned, these are just examples. Feel free to remove criteria, add criteria, or make changes based on what you think will give you the best ...