The All-in one Screener's Customized Ranking feature allows users to build a rank that encompasses multiple filters at one time.
Example of a two-criterion rank: Greenblatt Magic Formula
In his book, "The Little Book that Beats the Market," Gotham Asset Management leader Joel Greenblatt (Trades, Portfolio) defined a "magic formula" involving two ratios: return on capital and earnings yield. To select the highest-ranked stocks, Greenblatt considers the overall rank based on a combination of the above two ratios.
Users can implement Greenblatt's Magic Formula using the "Customized Rankings" Screener feature. To align with Greenblatt's special considerations when using his formula, we will focus on stocks with market cap of at least $100 million and exclude financial services and utilities companies.
If you hover your mouse over a column heading, you will see a black pop-up window that gives a brief definition of the term. In red, you should see a phrase called "Click to customize the ranking."
Click on the the red phrase to open a "Rank By" section.
You can now select the filters you wish to rank by and then adjust the weights as necessarily. Since Greenblatt gave a higher rank to stocks with high returns on capital and high earnings yield, we would rank the stocks by returns on capital and earnings yield in descending order (DESC). You can also open the "Rank By" section by clicking the "chart with stars" icon.
Users can save the rank using the "Customized ranking name" field and save button. Upon saving the custom rank, the user can open the rank using the "My Ranking" tab.
The "Overall Rank" column gives the resulting ranks based on our user-defined formula, highlights the top three stocks with a green flag. The top three stocks listed are VirnetX Holding Corp. (VHC, Financial), Centrus Energy Corp. (LEU, Financial) and Equity Commonwealth (EQC, Financial), concurring with the top three stocks listed on the "Magic Formula" Screen.
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