Screening Filters
Market Cap: 100M – 5B USD
- Purpose: Find small- to mid-cap companies instead of mega-cap integrated oil majors.
- Rationale: BATL (Battalion Oil) is a small-cap E&P company. Its share price and revenues are much more sensitive to oil-price moves than a giant like XOM or CVX. Limiting market cap keeps the results in a “similar size bracket,” which tends to mean:
- Higher operational leverage to commodity prices
- Higher stock volatility (which you implied you want for short-term trades)
Beta: HighRisk
- Purpose: Focus on stocks that move more than the overall market (high volatility).
- Rationale: BATL is a high-beta, high-volatility name. If oil goes up, you want names that really react. A “HighRisk” beta filter targets similar behavior:
- Bigger upside potential when oil rallies
- But also bigger downside when oil drops
This matches your desire for companies whose equity is quite sensitive to oil-price changes.
Moving Average Relationship: PriceAboveMA20
- Purpose: Ensure the stock is showing short-term positive momentum.
- Rationale: You mentioned short-term investment. Price above the 20-day moving average is a common technical signal that:
- The near-term trend is up or at least not weak
- The stock is not currently in a short-term downtrend
This doesn’t guarantee gains, but it skewers the search toward names that are already behaving better in the near term, which is relevant for short-term trades.
Sector: Energy / Energy – Fossil Fuels
- Purpose: Restrict to companies whose revenue directly depends on oil & gas.
- Rationale: You explicitly want companies whose revenues increase when oil prices rise. Targeting “Energy” and especially “Energy – Fossil Fuels” (E&P, producers, etc.):
- Focuses on upstream and related fossil-fuel businesses
- Increases odds that a substantial portion of revenue is from selling oil and/or gas, like BATL
This aligns with your original requirement that revenue be tied to oil price.
Region: United States
- Purpose: Keep results to U.S.-based or U.S.-listed energy producers.
- Rationale: BATL is a U.S. company, and U.S. E&P names:
- Trade in U.S. hours and are usually more familiar to U.S. investors
- Operate under similar regulatory and reporting standards
- Often have similar exposure to WTI oil pricing
This keeps the “investment universe” comparable to BATL.
Exchange: XNYS, XNAS, XASE (NYSE, Nasdaq, NYSE American)
- Purpose: Limit to major U.S. exchanges for better liquidity and transparency.
- Rationale: BATL trades on a main U.S. exchange, and sticking to NYSE/Nasdaq/NYSE American:
- Avoids very illiquid OTC/pink-sheet names
- Improves likelihood of decent trading volume and tighter spreads—important for short-term trades.
Quarter Revenue YoY Growth ≥ 5%
- Purpose: Filter for companies actually growing their revenues year-over-year.
- Rationale: For an oil producer, positive revenue growth suggests:
- Either rising production, higher realized prices, or both
- The business is not in a severe decline phase
This increases the chance that you’re looking at functioning, growing operators rather than distressed names, while still keeping them sensitive to oil prices.
Why Results Match Your “Similar to BATL” Request
- They are U.S. small-/mid-cap energy producers in fossil fuels, like BATL, whose revenues typically rise when oil prices rise.
- They have high beta, so their share prices react strongly to oil and market moves, similar to BATL’s risk/return profile.
- They are trending above their 20-day moving average, which aligns with your interest in short-term investment opportunities rather than long-term, deep-value turnarounds.
- They show positive revenue growth, indicating operational activity and some fundamental support behind the stock rather than pure speculation.
Together, these filters are designed to surface U.S.-listed oil & gas names that behave and operate broadly like BATL, with both the commodity exposure and the risk profile you’re looking for.
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