‘What do you usually use to screen for companies?’ This is one of the most frequent questions we get from our readers and attendees of our Dividend Machines and Investment Quadrant courses.
Back in 1951, when Warren Buffett started out, he had to go through 20,000 pages of Moody’s Manuals page by page to look for undervalued stocks. Fortunately for us, those days of flipping through tomes of yellow pages are behind us. Today, with the power of technology and the Internet, we have access to a number of stock screeners for free. With a click of the mouse, we can generate a list of companies that meet our criteria in a matter of minutes.
Before you jump to the free stock screeners I list below, keep in mind that screeners provide the convenience for gathering data, but they are not a substitute for doing your own due diligence. ......