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ETFs with Highest 1 Year Total Returns

ETFs with returns between 5% and 150% in the previous 12 months, market price > $5 and market capitalization > $50 M

Stocks with Highest 1 Year Return

Stocks with returns between 25% and 150% in the previous 12 months, market price > $5 and market capitalization > $0.5 B

High Dividend Stocks

These Stocks (equities, funds or ETFs) which have Yielded an Average Annual Dividend Return Greater than 7% in the Past 5 Years while the capital gain was above 0.

Analysts favorite biotechs

Biotech stocks with favorable analyst and STA coverage

Low Cost Global Equity ETFs

Global Equity ETFs with market cap > $ 1B and MER < 0.5%

High Dividend Yield ETFs

ETFs with at least $ 1B in market cap, 5% dividend yield and positive capital gain in both last 12 and 60 months.

Defence Stocks with Strong Performance

Aerospace and Defence Stocks with a market cap over $1B, dividend yield over 3% and EPS growth over 5% in the past 5 years.

Profitable Banks

Banks with at least $ 1B market cap, high return on equity and high dividend yield.

High Growth

High Dividend Growth

These Are the Top Quartile Companies in Their sectors for Dividend Growth in the Most Recent Reported 5 years.

High Earnings Growth

These Are the Top Quartile Companies in Their sectors for Earnings Growth in the Most Recent Reported 5 years.

High Revenue Growth

These Are the Top Quartile Companies in Their sectors for Revenue Growth in the Most Recent Reported 5 years.

Effective Management

High Gross Profit to Asset Ratio

These are the top quartile companies in their sectors for Gross Profit / Assets ratio in the most recent reported year. This ratio has been found to have a strong positive correlation with long-term stock performance.

High 5 Year Total Return

These stocks are among the top 25% among their sectors on 5 year total return (capital gain + dividend payment)

Low Debt to Equity

These are the top quartile securities with the lowest total debt to equity ratio for their sectors.

High Return on Invested Capital

These are the top quartile securities with the highest return on invested capital for their sectors.

High Return on Assets

These are the top quartile securities with the highest return on assets for their sectors.

High Return on Equity

These are the top quartile securities with the highest return on equity for their sectors.

Potentially Underpriced

Low Price Free Cash Flow

These are the top quartile securities with lowest price /free cash flow ratio for their sectors.

Low Price Cash Flow

These are the top quartile securities with lowest price /cash flow ratios for their sectors.

Low Price Book

These are the top quartile securities with lowest price /book ratios for their sectors.

Low Price Earning

These are the top quartile securities with lowest price / earning ratios for their sectors.

Capitalization and Profitability

High Dividend Yield

Stocks which are in the top quartile for delivering highest average dividend yield per year in the past 5 years.

Positive Cash Flow

Companies with positive cash flow in the 4 most recent reported quarters.

Positive Earnings

Companies with positive earnings in the 4 most recent reported quarters.

Small cap stocks

Small-cap stocks have a market capitalization between 300M and 2B dollars. Although small-cap stocks are more volatile than large-cap stocks, and get less coverage from the market, investing in the right small cap stock can yield higher return as they have more room for growth than large-cap stocks.

Mid cap stocks

Mid-cap stocks have a market capitalization between $ 2B to $ 10 B. Historically, mid-cap stocks have demonstrated better returns than small and big cap stocks.They are less risky than small-cap and have a comparable risk to large cap stocks. However, they do get less coverage and attention from the market and require further fundamental research. Try combining this with a fundamental screen to get the best stocks list.

Large cap stocks

These are companies with market capitalization of US$ 10 B or more. At least a part of your portfolio should be invested in large cap stocks. These stocks are relatively stable, have a lot of information available due to extensive analyst coverage and tend to pay high dividends.

Smart Beta

Underpriced Stability

Stocks with low standard deviation (second quartile) and low P/B ratios

Stable total returns

This is a simple screen but quite powerful. It picks stocks with most stable returns over the past 5 years in any market. We filter the stocks with the lowest standard deviation of annual returns and highest total returns compared to other stocks in the same market.

Value Creating Giants

This screen is used by many non-institutional investors to screen stocks with high potential. The philosophy is to focus on large companies with high market capitalization, high dividend yield and high return on invested capital compared to peers.

High Quality

These stocks are filtered on the basis of what all good analysts look for. Good cash flow - which means they have a profitable business, low debt to equity - which means that they are not burdened by debt, high return on equity - which means the management is creating value and large market capitalization - which means they are resilient. Although these stocks may not be market superstars and may be trading low compared to their peers, they can add long-term stability and growth to your portfolio.