marine2
963 posts
msg #78403
- Ignore marine2 |
9/1/2009 12:46:38 AM
Does anyone know the Long Term Debt terminology? I get companies by writing my filter this way, "and Long Term Debt equals 1"
Now if I said the number 10 I would get different companies in the search. But my question is, what does the number 1 or 2 or 10 mean to me when I ask for companies with a debt such as that number? Is 1 the lowest debt numeric that will take when asking for companies with the lowest out there? I tried 0 (zero) but no companies came up ? And if 0 (zero) is supposed to be for companies with virtually no debt then something doesn't work when working with this Long Term Debt filter.
Can someone enlighten me on how to use the Long Term Debt indicator terminology?
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trendscanner
265 posts
msg #78475
- Ignore trendscanner
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9/1/2009 9:15:15 PM
Trying different filter language and comparing the results to what is on the Yahoo Finance site, the units appear to be in $ millions. So if you specify Long term debt equals 1, it will return stocks with approximately $1 million in long term debt.
If you use "Long term debt equals 10" it should return stocks with about $10 million in LTD.
If you are looking for a company with low long term debt, you might try something like "Long Term Debt is below 0.1" Note that this will capture ETFs as well as stocks since ETFs have no LTD.
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marine2
963 posts
msg #78488
- Ignore marine2 |
9/2/2009 1:39:25 AM
Thank you for your reply to my question. I tried using the expression "and Long Term Debt is below 0.1". And do you know how many results I get from it, 4119 results. It means this filter expression or verbiage is not correct. I will continue to fish around for the truth. But, thank you anyways for helping me try to figure this out. Happy investing my fellow S.F. member.
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chetron
2,817 posts
msg #78491
- Ignore chetron |
9/2/2009 7:10:21 AM
maybe........
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chetron
2,817 posts
msg #78507
- Ignore chetron |
9/2/2009 3:12:30 PM
I GOT 44
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trendscanner
265 posts
msg #78510
- Ignore trendscanner |
9/2/2009 3:43:49 PM
I ran this through stock screener on the Yahoo Finance site, which screens on fundamentals. It's a pretty decent screener, actually. I ran it for stocks with zero debt and got 710 hits. You can export the data to a CSV (Excel compatible) file. The list includes AAPL and other firms that have no debt.
I ran the Yahoo screener again for stocks with between $10 and $100,000 debt (effectively, between 0 and 0.1, in SF language) and it gave 36 hits. Chetron, I think your scan is correctly picking up stocks with a little debt (between 0 and $100k) but something doesn't look right with the results that SF returns for "Long Term Debt equal to 0".
I assume that SF buys essentially the same data on company fundamentals that other sites use. Maybe this is something to ask the site administrator about.
Marine2, if you prefer to screen on fundamentals, you might want to try the Yahoo screener and see what it turns up. It's a free screener. Then import the results into a watchlist here.
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marine2
963 posts
msg #78529
- Ignore marine2 |
9/3/2009 2:00:11 AM
Thanks to both Chetron, and Trendscanner for helping me here.
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