HIGH GROWTH STOCKS - Screener (2024)

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You'll want to narrow the field using financial metrics such as return on assets, earnings per share growth, higher price-to-sales and price-to-cash-flow ratios.

Growth filters: EPS, Sales, EBIT and Free Cash flow growth

The growth investor likes to see this grow. As earnings per share can grow also by reducing expenses or reducing the number of shares, often Revenue (or Sales) growth is used as an additional filter. Higher sales indicates real expansion.

Growth investors tend to favor smaller, younger companies poised to expand and increase profitability potential in the future. Growth investors often look to five key factors when evaluating stocks: historical and future earnings growth; profit margins; returns on equity (ROE); and share price performance.

While there are a number of different ways to measure economic growth, the best-known and most frequently tracked and reported measure is gross domestic product (GDP).

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Key Takeaways. Growth stocks are those companies expected to grow sales and earnings at a faster rate than the market average. Growth stocks often look expensive, trading at a high P/E ratio, but such valuations could actually be cheap if the company continues to grow rapidly which will drive the share price up.

Return on equity (ROE)

ROE is calculated by dividing net income by stakeholder equity. A low ROE could be a possible indicator of overvalued shares. That's because it would show that the company isn't generating a lot of income relative to the amount of shareholder investment.

One way to do that is by examining the stock's simple moving averages (SMAs) – a simple arithmetic average of prices over some timespan. And if a stock's shorter-term moving average is above a longer-term moving average, then that usually indicates a general uptrend in price.

Other times, the economy is slowing and earnings fall. One way to determine whether a stock is a good long-term buy is to evaluate its past earnings and future earnings projections. If the company has a consistent history of rising earnings over a period of many years, it could be a good long-term buy.