Stock Picks – 52 Week Low Screen: 9-9-2015

52 Week Low

Made a few more changes to this screen – sorting out Asset Managers, increasing the PE allowance and decreasing the Cash Return requirement to 5%.  Here are the results:

Name Ticker Price Fair Value Margin of Safety Yield % MOS %
Qualcomm Inc QCOM 55.37 70 $14.63 3.48 20.90%
Mead Johnson Nutrition Co MJN 76.29 92 $15.71 2.17 17.08%
Alliant Energy Corp LNT 55.37 61 $5.63 3.96 9.23%

Sorting out the Asset Managers and Morningstar’s current review of Energy Companies – makes for a small list.  Nothing is jumping out at me as a bargain – yesterday’s massive Bull move did not help.  If Qualcomm could get closer to $49 – I would be interested.

Based on the following screen:

  • 52 Week Low Screen:
  1. Morningstar analysis available.
  2. Less than 5% above its 52 week low.
  3. Greater than or equal to Narrow moat.
  4. Free cash flow/enterprise value greater than 5% (should be above what the 10 Year Treasury Bond is yielding).
  5. Financial Health Grade >= B.
  6. Forward P/E <= 20.
  7. Stock Industry not = Asset Management
  8. For candidates that have passed all the filters, review the individual stocks Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) for the previous 10 years to select the best long term candidates.

z - even even smaller

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