Screening Filters
Market Cap ≥ $50,000,000
- Purpose: Exclude the tiniest, most speculative micro-cap and “shell” companies.
- Rationale:
- The user wants “good to buy” names in the $0.50–$1.00 range. In this price band, many stocks are extremely small and risky.
- A minimum market cap of $50M focuses the list on companies that are at least somewhat established, with a real business and some investor interest.
- This helps reduce the chance of including illiquid shells, OTC scams, or distressed companies that only meet the price criterion because they’ve collapsed.
Monthly Average Dollar Volume ≥ $500,000
- Purpose: Ensure there is enough trading liquidity so the user can reasonably enter and exit positions.
- Rationale:
- Penny-range stocks often have very low trading volume, leading to large bid-ask spreads and price slippage.
- By requiring at least $500K of average dollar volume per month, we filter for stocks that trade regularly and have active participation from other investors.
- This makes execution more practical and reduces the risk of being “stuck” in a position due to thin trading.
Price Between $0.50 and $1.00
- Purpose: Directly match the user’s requested price range.
- Rationale:
- The user explicitly asked for stocks currently priced between $0.50 and $1.00.
- This filter enforces that range, so every result is in the targeted low-price band.
- Combined with the other filters, it avoids simply returning every sub-$1 stock regardless of quality.
Moving Average Relationship: PriceAboveMA20
- Purpose: Find stocks with short-term positive price momentum rather than those in clear downtrends.
- Rationale:
- “Good to buy” often implies avoiding names that are actively breaking down.
- Requiring the price to be above its 20-day moving average is a simple technical signal that:
- The stock is trading stronger than its recent average price.
- Near-term trend is at least neutral-to-positive, not sharply bearish.
- For volatile low-priced stocks, this helps shift the list toward names where buyers, not sellers, are currently in control.
Quarter Revenue YoY Growth ≥ 1%
- Purpose: Focus on companies showing at least some recent fundamental growth instead of outright contraction.
- Rationale:
- Many sub-$1 stocks are in shrinking or distressed businesses.
- Requiring positive year-over-year quarterly revenue growth (≥1%) filters for companies whose sales are actually increasing.
- This adds a basic quality screen: the company’s business is at least moving in the right direction, which is more aligned with the idea of “good to buy” vs. pure speculation.
Why Results Match:
- The price filter directly satisfies your $0.50–$1.00 requirement.
- The market cap and volume filters help target names that are tradable and somewhat established, rather than illiquid or “zombie” penny stocks.
- The PriceAboveMA20 filter aligns with the idea of not buying into obvious downtrends, instead focusing on stocks with better short-term price action.
- The revenue growth filter introduces a basic fundamental quality check, aiming for companies with improving business performance, not just cheap prices.
Taken together, these filters try to answer your question as: “US-traded stocks priced between $0.50 and $1.00 that are relatively more liquid, not ultra-tiny, showing some business growth, and with constructive recent price action”—a more practical interpretation of “good to buy” in this very low price range.
This list is generated based on data from one or more third party data providers. It is provided for informational purposes only by Intellectia.AI, and is not investment advice or a recommendation. Intellectia does not make any warranty or guarantee relating to the accuracy, timeliness or completeness of any third-party information, and the provision of this information does not constitute a recommendation.