Re: [CANSLIM] My Market Guide CANSLIM screen


From: "Tim Fisher" <Tim@orerockon.com>
Subject: Re: [CANSLIM] My Market Guide CANSLIM screen
Date: 24 Jan 2002 13:01:32 -0800

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Less than 25M shares outstanding is almost microcap country. I use less 
than 50 million but have bot 100-550 million in a very good big-cap M. Also 
5 yr growth can go as low as 18%.

At 06:17 PM 1/21/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>All,
>
>I've been playing around with Market Guide quite a bit the past few weeks. 
>I built a screen that I thought would yield a list of CANSLIM candidates 
>for further research. Here are my screening criteria and the number of 
>stocks left after each (Market Guide has 9385 companies in its database):
>
>    Criteria Results
>  1  {EPS%ChgPYQ}>=25  <javascript:doResults(1);>1103
>  2  {Sales%ChgPYQ}>=25  <javascript:doResults(2);>310
>  3  {EPS%ChgPYQ}>{EPS%ChgTTM}.AND.{EPS%ChgTTM}>0 
> <javascript:doResults(3);>103
>  4  {EPS5YCGr%}>=25  <javascript:doResults(4);>33
>  5  {EPS3YCGr%}>=25  <javascript:doResults(5);>16
>  6  {ShsOutMR}<=25  <javascript:doResults(6);>6
>  7  {Price}>=10  <javascript:doResults(7);>4
>
>I was disappointed that my screen only left me with 4 stocks, one of which 
>is in deep doo-doo with the SEC (CHEZ). I think the shorthand should be 
>decipherable, but just in case it's not:
>
>EPS%ChgPYQ = Quarter over Quarter % Change in EPS
>Sales%ChgPYQ = Quarter over Quarter % Change in Sales
>EPS%ChgTTM = Trailing twelve months % Change in EPS from previous TTM
>EPS5YCGr% = EPS 5-year growth rate (%)
>EPS3YCGr% = EPS 3-year growth rate (%)
>ShsOutMR = Shares outstanding (mill.)
>
>The 3rd criterion was my attempt to seek companies with recently 
>increasing earnings.
>
>I think these criteria are true to CANSLIM as taught by WON/IBD, no? In 
>fact, I think WON recommends a share price cut-off of 15 instead of the 10 
>I'm using. If I relax all of the % Change criteria from 25 to 20, I get 5 
>more companies. Assuming my criteria are truly CANSLIMish, I suppose it 
>means that CANSLIMmers should be on the sidelines at least until this 
>round of earnings reports comes in.
>
>btw, the other 3 stocks (besides CHEZ) that meet the 25% criteria are 
>ACRT, MGAM & TARO. The additional 5 that meet the 20% growth criteria are 
>DKWD, ICUI, MINI, PENN & SCOR.
>
>Please tell me if/where I'm missing the boat here.
>
>Thanks,
>Mike

Tim Fisher
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