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Frequently asked questions
How does the stock scorer calculate its score?
Nine weighted components, scaled to a 0-100 score: insider buying versus selling from recent SEC Form 4 filings (20 points), profitability from the last four reported quarters and its trend (20), valuation (15), dilution from share-count growth plus offering-related filings (15), a chart read covering the 50-day and 200-day moving averages and the 52-week range (10), the capital-spending trend (10), the balance sheet weighing cash against debt (5), leverage as debt to equity (5), and — for companies that disclose it — backlog: contracted future revenue, weighted heavily (up to 15 points) when a company is not yet profitable and lightly once it is. Valuation uses trailing P/E when there are earnings and price-to-sales when there aren't, so a money-losing company isn't docked twice for the same fact. A company losing money can still earn partial profitability credit when the loss is narrowing or revenue is growing fast. Each component shows exactly what it found and how many points it earned.
Why does the same P/E score differently for different companies?
Tech, software, and semiconductor companies structurally trade at higher multiples than the broad market because investors pay up for growth. The tool reads each company's industry classification from its SEC filings and grades tech names against tech-typical bands, while everything else is graded against broad-market bands — for P/E, and for the price-to-sales fallback used when a company has no earnings. The valuation note on each result says which yardstick was used.
Where does the data come from?
Financials, insider transactions, share counts, and offering filings come straight from SEC EDGAR, the same source as our filings feed. Prices and the 52-week range come from public market data. For the backlog component, the first choice is always the audited figure in the company's own filings; for AI-infrastructure names that only announce contract values in press releases, we use the hand-checked figures from our backlog tracker at a reduced weight, and the component's note says so. Scores are cached for a few hours, so very recent news may not be reflected yet.
Why does it say 'no data' for some components?
Not every company reports everything. Foreign companies listed in the US often file different forms (like 20-F instead of 10-K) and their insiders don't file Form 4s, and recently listed companies may not have four quarters of reported earnings yet. Components with no data are left out and the score is scaled to what's available.
Aren't offerings sometimes good for a company?
They can be. An offering raises cash that can fund real growth, and for some companies that trade works out well over time. The score still docks it because the dilution itself is certain and immediate, while the payoff is a bet. When the bet does pay off, it shows up in this tool anyway, as improving profitability, which is a separately scored component.
Is a high score a buy signal?
No. The score is an automated summary of public filings and price data, not investment advice and not a prediction. A high score means the company's recent filings look healthy on these specific measures. It says nothing about the price you'd pay being right, and it can miss news the filings haven't caught up to yet.