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Growth stocks can be appealing to some investors. They allow investors to participate in companies that may grow faster than the broader market over time, whether through new technology, earnings recovery, expansion into larger markets, or long-term growth themes such as artificial intelligence, semiconductors, data centres, healthcare and digitalisation.  However, growth investing can also be tricky, as a company may have a strong story but weak profits, expensive valuations or too much debt.  That is why I think investors need more than just a good story when looking for growth stocks. Within Beansprout's four pots of wealth framework, higher-growth ideas would usually sit within the Opportunity Pot., where we look for companies that can potentially grow meaningfully over the next one to three years after applying a disciplined process.  In this article, we focus on one important part of that process: four simple screening factors that help us...