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Understanding Screening
Using
NAIC Stock Prospector
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What is Screening?
• Searching a database to find companies with specific characteristics
• Reducing 11,000+ companies to a manageable number for analysis
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Screening Steps
1. Set search (investment) objectives
2. Set search (screening) criteria
3. Select items to report
4. Set importance factors (weighting)
5. Sort
6. Viewing & printing the results
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Step 1 - Objective
Your investment objective
determines your search
Investment Objective Search for:
Willing to take some risk Growth
Unwilling to pay a “premium” Value
“Blue-chip” companies Quality
Preservation of capital Safety
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Step 2 - Screening Criteria
Main Objective
Growth Value
Quality Safety
Secondary Objective
Support (or confirm) the main objective
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Growth Example
• EPS R2 > .95
• EPS Growth > 15%
• Revenue Growth > 15%
• Projected Growth > 15%
• Relative Value < 1
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Safety Example
• Current Yield < 3%
• Dividend Growth > 10%
• EPS Growth > 10%
• EPS R2 > .9
• Dividend Payout < 60%
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Step 3 - Which Items?
For the Beginner (using the Wizard)
• 8 pre-defined reports
• 25 user set reports
For the Experienced
• customize to suit search
• choose from 8 Groups and 100+ items
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Beginner Reports
both report and criteria are selected
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Experienced Reports
customize reports by using familiar items
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Step 4 – Weights(What is Important)
• Assign “importance weights” to individual items• Establish relative ranking for selected companies• User set from 0 to 5
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Step 6 – Looking at the Results
• Selected Companies• Data Report• Historical Data Graph• Ranking Report
– shows how and why a company was selected
– shows how and why it was ranked the way it was
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Ranking Report
shows how and why a company was selected and how and why it was ranked the way it was
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Cautions
• Data
• Screening Criteria and Weights
• Follow up with confirming analysis
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Updating and Exporting
STB ProspectorDatabase
Analyst Program
NAIC Datafiles