{"id":3279,"date":"2010-04-25T02:29:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T20:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/what-does-stock-screener-mean\/"},"modified":"2010-04-25T02:29:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T20:59:08","slug":"what-does-stock-screener-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/what-does-stock-screener-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does Stock Screener Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tool investors can use to filter stocks given certain criteria of their choice.<\/p>\n<p>By using a stock screening tool an investor is able to follow a strict set of criteria that he or she requires prior to investing in a company. For example, an investor could screen stocks by entering the following criteria: &#8220;listed on the NYSE&#8221;, &#8220;in the telecommunications industry&#8221;, &#8220;has a P\/E ratio between 15-25&#8221;, and &#8220;has an annual EPS growth of at least 15% for the past three years&#8221;. The screener would then produce a list of stocks that displayed all of these attributes. In this example stocks are screened by using only four criteria; however, you can screen stocks by as many criteria as the particular screener you are using will allow.<\/p>\n<p>The stock screener has replaced many days&#8217; worth of research with a few clicks of a mouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tool investors can use to filter stocks given certain criteria of their choice. By using a stock screening tool an investor is able to follow a strict set of criteria that he or she requires prior to investing in a company. For example, an investor could screen stocks by entering the following criteria: &#8220;listed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}