Criteria Selection Guide Here we’re going to apply some filters to weed out stocks that doesn’t meet our criteria. Our goal is to get it down to around 50-100 stocks. There are plenty of stocks screening sites out there but I find Financial Times Global Equity Screener pretty robust and has everything we need. Google Finance is another alternative that you can check out. Below is our screening criteria and I’ll run you through what each means. • • • • •

Market Capitalization: $100 million and above Price to Earnings ratio: Less than 10 Return to Equity ratio: More than 13% Debt to Equity ratio: Equal or less than 0.2 or 20% Dividend yield: More than 3-5%

1. Market Capitalization Market capitalization tells you how much the stock market thinks a company should worth. We want to avoid companies that are too small for a couple of reasons. Companies with small market cap are generally either newly listed and lack of established products/service in the market. Just be mindful the screener only allow currency selection in Pound, Dollar & Euro. You might need to make adjustment accordingly to the market cap of your country currency.

2. Price to earnings ratio Or P/E ratio for short, this ratio compares how much the company earns and how much you are paying for it. If the company earns a profit of $1, a $10 stock price will make the P/E 10. Price / Earnings = PE ratio OR $10 / $1 = PE of 10 All else equals, the lower the ratio the better it is. Low ratio means you are paying less for every dollar of profit the company made. PE ratio is a crude measurement, think of it as a Body Mass Index (BMI) that determine if a person is underweight, normal or overweight based on the height & weight. Sometimes it can be misleading but overall it serves our screening purpose. Generally, stocks selling below PE of 10 are considered cheap; PE 11-20 as fairly priced while anything above is considered expensive. As you have learnt when I introduced those fundamentals, sometimes certain stocks are cheap for a reason and vice versa. But for now, we will separate the cheap ones from the pricey ones.

3. Return on Equity ratio (5 years average) You should be familiar with ROE ratio by now. We want a stock that can consistently earn a 13% ROE and above over the past 5 years. You can adjust the ROE ratio upward to reduce the results if you are getting plenty of matches. As a guideline for a start, try to avoid any stocks that cannot earn over a 10% ROE. Over a long period, as in 10-20 years, not many stocks can consistently deliver a ROE of 20%.

4. Debt to Equity ratio This ratio measures how much debts the company has borrowed. Expressed as a percentage against shareholder’s equity. Debt isn’t all bad but keeping it at below 20% of the equity is a good starting point.

5. Dividend yield Dividend yield looks at how much dividend is being paid out by the business at the current stock price. A $10 stock that pays $3 in dividend give you a dividend yield of 3% Dividend / Price = Dividend yield % OR $3 / $10 = 3% Dividend yield is a very subjective preference and there’s no right and wrong answer. But a minimum of 3% dividend yield is a good start. You can adjust the filters if you are getting too little matches or too many matches. If you have too many matches, try tighten your filters i.e increase ROE, lower PE, low Debt to Equity and so on. If there are not enough matches, you can loosen those criteria. The step by step guide is on subsequent pages. Make sure you go through this checklist before buying any stock.

Step-by-step Guide 1. Go to Financial Times Global Equity Screener 2. Select the countries or region you like to filter on.

3. For Sectors & Industries we will keep it as default. 4. Go to ‘Add additional criteria’ at the bottom of all the default criterias.

5. A pop out window should show up, allowing you tick and untick all the criterias that you want to be included.

6. Select Market Cap, Price to Earnings Ratio, Dividend Yield, Return on Equity (5 years average) and Total Debt to Capital, leaving the rest unticked. 7. You should have something that looks like this.

8. Enter all the criteria. Here we found 150 results out of the entire universe of stocks. If you reduce your search to a particular region or country, it is very likely to fall below 100 matches.

9. On the results page, you can ranked companies by those criterias.

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