Volatility is used as a measure of a security's riskiness. Typically investors view a high volatility as high risk. This flag identifies companies with extreme volatile daily returns over the past year, both in an absolute sense and also relative to rest of the financial universe…

Accruals are the non-cash net income earned by a business as a result of accrual-based accounting. Businesses with large positive accruals generally have large non-cash earnings, like sales on account that have not yet been paid by customers. Investors are wary of businesses that have large positive accruals over long periods of time. This flag identifies companies with high positive accruals, both in an absolute sense and also relative to rest of the universe…

Earnings per share, or EPS, tells you how well a company is generating profit for its shareholders. When earnings per share is negative, it means the company is losing money. This flag identifies companies with negative normalized earnings per share value for the trailing twelve months…

The debt to assets ratio is a leverage ratio used to determine how much debt (a sum of long term and current portion of debt) a company has on its balance sheet relative to total assets. All things being equal, a increasing debt to assets ratio is riskier for equity investors; debt holders often have seniority over company assets during bankruptcy. This flag identifies companies where Debt to Total Assets for the most recent fiscal year is significantly higher than same ratio from the prior fiscal year, both in an absolute sense and also relative to rest of the universe…

This flag identifies companies whose market capitalization is less than 50 million USD, or whose monthly trading share volume (as a fraction of shares outstanding) is very low relative to rest of the universe…

Investors generally buy shares in dividend-paying companies for the regular dividend payments. A cut or halt in dividend payments affects the cash inflows of these investors. Investors assume that a company is reducing dividends because it is having cash flow problems. This could be the result of deteriorating business conditions, such as declining sales, rising expenses and falling profits. This flag identifies companies where cash dividends (as a fraction of market capitalization) for the most recent fiscal year is significantly lower than same metric from the prior fiscal year, both in an absolute sense and also relative to rest of the universe…

Operating margin measures the proportion of revenue left over after paying the variable costs of production. Declining operating margins can point out significant weaknesses in company growth. This flag identifies companies where Operating Margin for the most recent fiscal year is significantly lower than same ratio from the prior fiscal year, both in an absolute sense and also relative to rest of the financial universe…

Existing shareholders usually dislike share dilution because their ownership stake decreases without them trading any stock. This flag identifies companies where shares outstanding for the most recent fiscal year is significantly higher than that same metric from the prior fiscal year, both in an absolute sense and also relative to rest of the universe…

The Quick Ratio is used as a solvency metric to determine a firm's ability to pay down current liabilities with its cash, short term equivalents, and accounts receivables. For firms with low quick ratios (typically lower than 1) it may mean that the firm is potentially having solvency issues. This flag identifies companies where Quick Ratio for the trailing twelve months is low, both in an absolute sense and also relative to rest of the universe…