How about stocks under $15 per share only

Screening Filters

1. Price: min = $5, max = $15

   • Purpose: Find stocks trading below $15 per share, while excluding very low‑priced / penny stocks.
   • Rationale:
     • Your request was: “stocks under $15 per share only” → the max = 15 directly enforces this.
     • We keep a minimum price of $5 as in the previous screen. This is a practical quality control to avoid highly illiquid, extremely volatile penny stocks (often under $5) that can have large bid‑ask spreads and be harder to trade efficiently.

2. Monthly Average Dollar Volume: min = $1,000,000

   • Purpose: Ensure the stocks have sufficient trading activity (liquidity).
   • Rationale:
     • With a $100 investment, you still want to be able to enter and exit positions without large price slippage.
     • A minimum of $1M traded per month filters out thinly traded names that could be hard to trade or be more easily manipulated.

3. Beta: LowRisk, ModerateRisk

   • Purpose: Focus on stocks with lower or moderate volatility relative to the overall market.
   • Rationale:
     • With a smaller capital base (like $100), big drawdowns matter more.
     • Limiting to low/moderate beta avoids the highest‑volatility names, making the list more suitable for risk‑aware investors.

4. Index Component: GSPC (S&P 500)

   • Purpose: Restrict results to companies in the S&P 500 index.
   • Rationale:
     • S&P 500 membership implies larger, established companies with higher reporting standards and generally better liquidity.
     • This works well with your prior context (a $100 investment and focus on relatively stable, higher‑quality names) while now applying your new price cap.

5. Analyst Consensus: Strong Buy, Moderate Buy

   • Purpose: Capture stocks that currently have favorable analyst opinions.
   • Rationale:
     • While analyst ratings are not guarantees, they are a useful filter to highlight companies with positive institutional sentiment and research coverage.
     • This narrows the list to names that professional analysts collectively see as having attractive risk/reward.

Why Results Match Your Request

• Your key new condition was “under $15 per share”.
  • The screen uses max price = $15, which directly satisfies this.
• The only extra constraint beyond what you explicitly asked is min price = $5:
  • Our screener is designed to avoid ultra‑low‑priced penny stocks (often highly speculative and illiquid).
  • This keeps the focus on more tradable, higher‑quality names, which is generally more appropriate for most retail investors.

Overall, the filters honor your request for stocks under $15 while preserving sensible safeguards on liquidity, risk, quality, and sentiment from the earlier screen.