Average Total Asset of the most recent fiscal year divided by the average total equity for the same period. In general a high Leverage ratio suggests higher risk…

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…

Financial Lens allows you to personalize your investing experience by selecting the factors that are important to you. Once these are selected, you can see how well your current positions align with these factors. Financial Lens also flags companies with certain characteristics you have identified as undesirable, like Deteriorating Profit Margin and High Volatility. Armed with this knowledge, you can choose whether or not to adjust your holdings to improve your portfolio grade…

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…

Companies that have historically had high earnings and sales growth, relative to the market and/or their sector. This factor comprises:

Earnings per Share Change (%)…

Companies that historically tend to have high earnings to price, book to price, sales to price and cash-flow to price ratios, relative to the market and/or their sector. The "Values" factor comprises the following sub-factors:

Normalized Earnings to Price Ratio…

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 growth rate is the compound annual growth rate of "earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) over the past five years based on trailing twelve month (TTM) data.

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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…

Companies that third-party analysts forecast to have an attractive upside compared to the current price, relative to the market and/or their industry sector. The Analyst Rating pillar comprises the following sub-factors:

Consensus Rank (Average Target)…

Companies that have historically paid out high and sustainable dividend yield, relative to the market and/or their sector. This factor comprises the following sub-factors:

Payout Ratio (TTM)…

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…