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March 14, 2020

Did you know that the results of AAII’s stock screens are updated daily for A+ Investor subscribers?

Every day, the 60 guru-based and factor-based AAII stock screens filter over 6,000 stocks into investment ideas that you could potentially add to your portfolio. There are multiple ways to access a stock screen’s passing company list from the A+ Investor Toolkit webpage. You can select a screen from the Screen Power Rankings in the Popular Tools menu, or scroll down to the Stocks+ area where you can click on the guru and factor screen lists on the right in the My Stock Tools section.

At the Screen Power Rankings page, the screens can be ranked by their performance over select periods of time, such as one year, three years and 10 years, but they can also be ranked by their performance over periods of time distinguished by qualities such as market strength or risk. For instance, you can rank the screens by their performance during the bear market of 2007 to 2009 or the succeeding bull market of 2009 to 2019.

Screens can also be ranked on risk index and risk-adjusted return. When risk index is chosen, a screen’s volatility relative to the S&P 500 index is highlighted and may give you a new view on a screening strategy or a potential stock investment. New perspectives may lead to new insights.

The Screen Power Rankings are updated daily to give you a regularly generated batch of current stock ideas. As the market shifts from one situation to the next, different strategies may shift from overperformance to underperformance, or vice versa. As the situation changes, so will the daily lists of passing companies.

The list of passing companies is available on a screen’s webpage, accessed by clicking on the screen name from any table. The stocks can be ranked and sorted by a distinct set of fields related to the fundamental principles of the screen’s underlying model. Stocks of interest can then be added to any portfolio you set up in My Portfolio by clicking on the plus sign next to a stock’s ticker. You could even model the stock screen strategies that pique your interest by adding all the stocks from a daily passing list to a custom portfolio and watch its performance going forward.

For more on the stock screens and the daily lists of passing stocks, be sure to check out the A+ User Guide.