Stock Picks – 52 Week Low Screen: 7-22-2015

Name Ticker Price Fair Value Margin of Safety Yield % MOS %
Emerson Electric Co EMR $51.87 $65.00 $13.13 3.61 20.20%
American Express Co AXP $78.87 $95.00 $16.13 1.47 16.98%
John Wiley & Sons Inc Class A JW.A $53.43 $63.00 $9.57 2.26 15.19%
Graco Inc GGG $66.84 $77.00 $10.16 1.79 13.19%
Applied Materials Inc AMAT $17.47 $20.00 $2.53 2.24 12.65%
Franklin Resources Inc BEN $48.96 $55.00 $6.04 1.23 10.98%
Wal-Mart Stores Inc WMT $73.48 $81.00 $7.52 2.69 9.28%

Based on the following screen:

  • 52 Week Low Screen:
  1. Morningstar analysis available.
  2. Less than 5% above its 52 week low.
  3. Greater than or equal to Wide moat.
  4. Free cash flow/enterprise value greater than 3% (should be above what the 10 Year Treasury Bond is yielding).
  5. Financial Health Grade >= B.
  6. Forward P/E <= 20.
  7. For candidates that have passed all the filters, review the individual stocks Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) for the previous 10 years to select the best long term candidates.

Note: since more stocks have been showing up in this screen – I have decided to change the narrow moat hurdle to a wide moat – to improve the quality of the results.

z - even even smaller

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