Sector
The broad industry group the company belongs to (e.g. Technology, Energy).
What it tells you
Useful for grouping and comparison, not a signal on its own — a great company in a bad sector still faces headwinds a good sector wouldn't.
Company
The descriptive and price fields at the left of the table.
Price
Latest share price. Shows the live intraday price and % change when available, otherwise the most recent close.
What it tells you
Says nothing about value by itself. A $3 stock isn't cheap and a $300 stock isn't expensive — what matters is price relative to earnings, cash flow, or assets.
Trend
A 6-month sparkline of the daily closing price — a quick read on recent price trend.
What it tells you
A quick gut check on momentum and volatility. A steady climb suggests the market is warming to the stock; a sharp drop is worth understanding before you dig into the fundamentals.
Market cap
Market capitalization: share price × shares outstanding. The total equity value the market assigns the company.
What it tells you
Sets the size class and the comparison set. Small caps carry more idiosyncratic risk and less analyst coverage than large caps — which is also where mispricing is more likely to hide.
How it's calculated
share price × shares outstanding
Beta
Beta: how much the stock moves relative to the overall market. 1.0 = moves with the market; higher = more volatile.
What it tells you
How much the stock tends to move relative to the market. Above 1 means more volatile than the market, below 1 means less. A low-beta stock can still be a bad investment; it just won't swing as hard on market-wide days.
How it's calculated
regression of the stock’s returns against the market
Valuation
What you pay for each dollar of earnings, sales, book value or cash. All price-based figures recompute against a live quote when a screen returns 200 results or fewer.
P/E
Price / Earnings: share price ÷ trailing 12-month EPS. How many dollars you pay per dollar of annual earnings. Lower is cheaper.
What it tells you
The classic "how expensive is this" number. High P/E means the market is pricing in strong future growth — worth checking whether that growth is actually likely. Low P/E can mean genuine value or a real problem the market has already priced in.
How it's calculated
price ÷ diluted EPS (TTM)
Forward P/E
Forward P/E: share price ÷ next-year consensus analyst EPS estimate. Forward-looking valuation. Often null for thinly-covered names.
What it tells you
Same idea as P/E but forward-looking. Watch the gap between this and the trailing P/E: a much lower forward P/E means analysts expect earnings to grow quickly, which is either a genuine reason for optimism or a number worth scrutinizing.
How it's calculated
price ÷ next-year consensus EPS
P/B
Price / Book: share price ÷ book value per share. How the market values the company vs. its net assets on the books.
What it tells you
How the market values the company's net assets. Historically most useful for asset-heavy businesses like banks and industrials — less meaningful for asset-light software companies where the real value is in people and IP, not the balance sheet.
How it's calculated
market cap ÷ shareholders’ equity
P/S
Price / Sales: market cap ÷ trailing 12-month revenue. Useful for unprofitable companies where P/E is meaningless.
What it tells you
Useful when earnings are negative or noisy and P/E doesn't work. A low P/S can flag overlooked value, but check margins too — a low-margin business deserves a lower P/S than a high-margin one, so this number alone can mislead.
How it's calculated
market cap ÷ revenue (TTM)
P/FCF
Price / Free Cash Flow: market cap ÷ trailing free cash flow. Like P/E but using actual cash generated.
What it tells you
Prices the business on cash it actually generates rather than accounting earnings, which makes it harder to game with non-cash charges. Often considered a truer read on valuation than P/E for that reason.
How it's calculated
market cap ÷ free cash flow (TTM)
EV/EBITDA
Enterprise Value / EBITDA: (market cap + debt − cash) ÷ EBITDA. A capital-structure-neutral valuation multiple.
What it tells you
Prices the whole business — equity plus debt, minus cash — against operating cash flow before non-cash charges. Better than P/E for comparing companies with different debt loads, since it isn't distorted by how a company is financed.
How it's calculated
enterprise value ÷ EBITDA (TTM)
EV/Sales
Enterprise Value / Sales: (market cap + net debt) ÷ trailing revenue. Valuation relative to sales, including debt. Blank when enterprise value is negative — common for banks, where reported cash includes the securities portfolio.
What it tells you
A valuation floor for a business with no profit yet — used a lot for high-growth or turnaround stories where earnings-based multiples don't apply. Says nothing about whether the company will ever turn those sales into profit.
How it's calculated
enterprise value ÷ revenue (TTM)
FCF yield
Free Cash Flow Yield: trailing free cash flow ÷ market cap. The cash return on the equity price. Higher is better.
What it tells you
How much real cash the business throws off relative to what you're paying for it. Higher is generally better — this is the flip side of P/FCF and a favorite among value investors, since it's hard to fake.
How it's calculated
free cash flow (TTM) ÷ market cap
Earnings yield
Earnings Yield: trailing EPS ÷ share price (the inverse of P/E). Higher is cheaper.
What it tells you
The mirror image of P/E, useful for comparing a stock directly against a bond yield or a risk-free rate — if the earnings yield is below what you'd get in T-bills, the market is paying up for growth or safety it may not deliver.
How it's calculated
diluted EPS (TTM) ÷ price
Profitability
How much of each sales dollar the business keeps, and how hard the capital behind it works. Every margin uses trailing twelve months.
Gross margin
Gross Margin: (revenue − cost of goods sold) ÷ revenue. The profit left after direct production costs.
What it tells you
How much pricing power and cost control a company has before overhead. A high, stable gross margin usually signals a real competitive advantage; a declining one is an early warning sign worth investigating before it shows up in net income.
How it's calculated
gross profit ÷ revenue (TTM)
EBITDA margin
EBITDA Margin: EBITDA ÷ revenue. Operating profitability before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
What it tells you
A rough proxy for operating profitability that strips out financing and accounting choices. Useful for comparing companies across different capital structures and tax situations, but easy to overstate — it ignores real cash costs like capex.
How it's calculated
EBITDA ÷ revenue (TTM), where EBITDA = operating income + D&A
Operating margin
Operating Margin: operating income ÷ trailing revenue. Profitability from core operations, before interest and taxes.
What it tells you
Shows how much of each sales dollar survives core operations, before interest and taxes. Watch the trend more than the level — a shrinking operating margin often shows up before revenue growth actually slows.
How it's calculated
operating income ÷ revenue (TTM)
Net margin
Net Margin: net income ÷ revenue. The bottom-line profit kept from each dollar of sales.
What it tells you
The bottom line, literally — what's left after everything. Compare it against the company's own history and close peers rather than the market broadly; "normal" net margin varies enormously by industry.
How it's calculated
net income ÷ revenue (TTM)
ROE
Return on Equity: trailing net income ÷ average shareholders’ equity. How efficiently the company turns equity into profit. Blank when equity is negative, where the ratio would invert and mislead.
What it tells you
How efficiently a company turns shareholder capital into profit. A high ROE is good — unless it's driven mainly by heavy debt rather than genuine operating strength, which is worth checking against the leverage metrics before getting excited.
How it's calculated
net income (TTM) ÷ average shareholders’ equity
ROA
Return on Assets: trailing net income ÷ average total assets. How efficiently the company turns its asset base into profit.
What it tells you
Less distorted by debt than ROE, since it measures profit against the whole asset base rather than just equity. A useful cross-check when a company's ROE looks great but you suspect leverage is doing the work.
How it's calculated
net income (TTM) ÷ average total assets
ROIC
Return on Invested Capital: operating profit after a flat 21% tax ÷ average invested capital (debt + equity − cash). Whether the business earns more than its capital costs. A flat statutory rate is used rather than each company’s effective rate, which is noisy year to year for small caps.
What it tells you
Arguably the single most important profitability metric for a value investor: does the business earn more on the capital invested in it than that capital costs? Sustainably above the cost of capital is the hallmark of a real competitive moat.
How it's calculated
operating income × 0.79 ÷ average (debt + equity − cash)
Balance sheet
Leverage and short-term solvency, from the most recent quarterly balance sheet.
Net D/E
Net Debt / Equity: (interest-bearing debt − cash and short-term investments) ÷ shareholders’ equity, period-end. Uses borrowings and leases only — supplier credit and deferred revenue are not leverage. Lower is safer; NEGATIVE means the company holds more cash than debt, which is a strength.
What it tells you
How reliant the company is on borrowed money relative to what shareholders have put in. Higher leverage amplifies both gains and losses — a negative number (more cash than debt) is a strength, but it also means the company isn't using leverage that could improve shareholder returns.
How it's calculated
(short-term debt + long-term debt + leases − cash & short-term investments) ÷ equity
Current ratio
Current Ratio: current assets ÷ current liabilities. Ability to cover short-term obligations. Above 1 is healthier.
What it tells you
A quick solvency check — can the company cover what it owes in the next year with what it can turn into cash in the next year? Comfortably above 1 is reassuring; well below 1 is worth understanding before anything else.
How it's calculated
current assets ÷ current liabilities
Growth
Year-over-year figures use trailing twelve months against the same twelve months a year earlier, so a slowdown shows up as it happens rather than eight months later. Three-year CAGRs use audited full fiscal years. All of them stay blank when the base period was a loss — growth measured from a loss is a turnaround, not a growth rate.
Revenue growth YoY
Revenue growth: latest trailing twelve months vs. the same twelve months a year earlier. TTM rather than fiscal year, so a slowdown shows up as it happens. Blank when the base period was a loss — growth from a loss is a turnaround, not a growth rate.
What it tells you
The most current read on top-line momentum, since it uses the last twelve months rather than waiting for the fiscal year to close. Slowing revenue growth is one of the earliest signals of a business losing ground, well before it shows up in profit.
How it's calculated
revenue (TTM) ÷ revenue (TTM one year ago) − 1
Revenue CAGR 3Y
Revenue 3-year compound annual growth rate, on audited full fiscal years. A small base year can produce very large percentages — read alongside the absolute figures.
What it tells you
Smooths out the noise of any single strong or weak year to show the underlying growth trend. Useful for judging whether recent growth is a real trajectory or a one-off spike.
How it's calculated
(revenue latest FY ÷ revenue 3 FY ago) ^ ⅓ − 1
EPS growth YoY
EPS growth: latest trailing twelve months vs. the same twelve months a year earlier. Blank when the base period was a loss.
What it tells you
Shows whether profit growth is keeping pace with — or outrunning — revenue growth. EPS growing faster than revenue usually means margins are expanding or the company is buying back stock; slower means the opposite.
How it's calculated
diluted EPS (TTM) ÷ diluted EPS (TTM one year ago) − 1
EPS CAGR 3Y
EPS 3-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR).
What it tells you
The multi-year profit growth trend, useful for separating a genuinely improving business from one riding a temporary earnings bump.
How it's calculated
(EPS latest FY ÷ EPS 3 FY ago) ^ ⅓ − 1
Net income growth YoY
Net income growth: latest trailing twelve months vs. the same twelve months a year earlier. Blank when the base period was a loss.
What it tells you
Bottom-line growth over the last year. Compare against revenue growth — net income growing much faster than sales can mean real operating leverage, or it can mean a one-time tax benefit or cost cut that won't repeat.
How it's calculated
net income (TTM) ÷ net income (TTM one year ago) − 1
Net income CAGR 3Y
Net income 3-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR).
What it tells you
The multi-year profit trend. A steady climb here is a stronger signal than any single strong year, since it's harder to fake over three years than over one.
How it's calculated
(net income latest FY ÷ net income 3 FY ago) ^ ⅓ − 1
EBITDA growth YoY
EBITDA growth: latest trailing twelve months vs. the same twelve months a year earlier. Blank when the base period was a loss.
What it tells you
Growth in core operating profitability before financing and accounting noise. A useful cross-check against net income growth — if they diverge sharply, something below the operating line (debt, taxes, one-offs) is driving the difference.
How it's calculated
EBITDA (TTM) ÷ EBITDA (TTM one year ago) − 1
EBITDA CAGR 3Y
EBITDA 3-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR).
What it tells you
The multi-year trend in core profitability, less noisy than any single year and a good gut check on whether operating performance is genuinely improving.
How it's calculated
(EBITDA latest FY ÷ EBITDA 3 FY ago) ^ ⅓ − 1
FCF growth YoY
Free cash flow growth: latest trailing twelve months vs. the same twelve months a year earlier. Blank when the base period was negative.
What it tells you
Whether the cash actually hitting the bank is growing, which is the real test of a business's health — companies can grow earnings on paper for a while without growing cash, but not indefinitely.
How it's calculated
free cash flow (TTM) ÷ free cash flow (TTM one year ago) − 1
FCF CAGR 3Y
Free cash flow 3-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR).
What it tells you
The multi-year cash generation trend. Consistently growing free cash flow, even through a rough year or two for earnings, is one of the better signs of a durable business.
How it's calculated
(FCF latest FY ÷ FCF 3 FY ago) ^ ⅓ − 1