Optionable strong buys

Screening Filters

1. market_cap >= 10,000,000,000 (≥ $10B market cap)

   • Purpose: Restrict results to large‑cap companies.
   • Rationale: CMCSA (Comcast) is a large‑cap stock. Using a ≥$10B cutoff keeps the universe in a similar size/quality tier, improving comparability in terms of liquidity, institutional coverage, and business maturity.

2. sector in ['Telecommunications Services', 'Media & Publishing', 'Retailers']

   • Purpose: Focus on companies in industries closely related to Comcast’s business.
   • Rationale:
     • Comcast operates in communications, media, and content distribution.
     • Including Telecom, Media & Publishing, and Retailers captures peers and adjacent plays (e.g., content distributors, cable/media companies, and related consumer-facing platforms).
     • This aligns with the idea of “strong buys for CMCSA” as “similar or related names investors might consider alongside Comcast.”

3. list_exchange in ['XNYS', 'XNAS', 'XASE'] (NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX)

   • Purpose: Limit to major U.S. exchanges.
   • Rationale: CMCSA.O trades on NASDAQ. Restricting to primary U.S. exchanges ensures:
     • High disclosure standards and liquidity
     • Easy access for most investors
     • Direct comparability to CMCSA in terms of market structure and trading hours.

4. is_index_component = ['GSPC'] (S&P 500 members)

   • Purpose: Restrict to companies that are constituents of the S&P 500.
   • Rationale:
     • Comcast is in the S&P 500, a benchmark set of leading U.S. companies.
     • Filtering to S&P 500 components keeps results in the same high‑quality, blue‑chip universe—similar scale, governance, and institutional following as CMCSA.
     • This avoids smaller or more speculative names that, while in similar sectors, wouldn’t really be peers to Comcast.

5. is_optionable = True

   • Purpose: Only include stocks with listed options.
   • Rationale: The user explicitly asked for “optionable” names. This filter ensures every result has an options chain available, allowing strategies such as covered calls, protective puts, or spreads—just as one might do with CMCSA.

6. analyst_consensus = ['Strong Buy']

   • Purpose: Only include stocks with the most bullish analyst consensus rating.
   • Rationale: The user wants “strong buys.” This filter directly enforces that the aggregate analyst rating is at the top of the scale (typically based on multiple covering analysts). It removes Neutral, Hold, or Buy-rated names to focus purely on those with high conviction positive views.

Why Results Match:

• The screen targets large, S&P 500 U.S. companies in Comcast‑adjacent sectors, so results are true peers/alternatives to CMCSA rather than unrelated stocks.
• It enforces optionability, matching the request for stocks you can trade options on.
• It requires “Strong Buy” analyst consensus, directly reflecting the “strong buys” part of the query.

Together, these filters yield a focused list of CMCSA‑like, high‑quality, optionable stocks that analysts currently rate as strong buys.