Screening Filters
Market Cap ≥ $5,000,000,000
- Purpose: Focus on larger, more established companies.
- Rationale: With only about $10 to put in, you can’t diversify much, so you want to avoid tiny, easily manipulated names. A $5B+ market cap filter steers you toward well‑known, liquid companies where the price is less likely to move wildly on small news or low volume.
Price Between $2 and $10
- Purpose: Find stocks you can actually buy with $10.
- Rationale:
- The $10 maximum directly matches your request: you can buy at least one full share with your $10 budget.
- The $2 minimum avoids ultra‑cheap “penny stocks,” which tend to be highly speculative, illiquid, and more prone to extreme swings or manipulation.
Beta: LowRisk or ModerateRisk
- Purpose: Limit volatility to more stable or moderately volatile stocks.
- Rationale: With such a small amount invested, a highly volatile (“high beta”) stock could swing 10–20% very quickly, which is more like gambling than investing. Filtering for low or moderate beta targets stocks that generally move less aggressively than high‑beta names, making the ride a bit smoother.
EPS (TTM) ≥ 0
- Purpose: Require that the company is at least breaking even or profitable over the last 12 months.
- Rationale: Positive earnings per share indicate a real business generating profits (or at least not losing money). This avoids many speculative, story‑only companies that have no profits and higher fundamental risk.
Revenue 5‑Year CAGR ≥ 5%
- Purpose: Ensure the company is actually growing its sales over time.
- Rationale: A minimum 5% compound annual growth in revenue over five years focuses on businesses that are expanding rather than stagnating or shrinking. For a small investor, picking companies with a history of growth improves the odds of long‑term value creation compared with flat or declining businesses.
P/E (TTM) Between 5 and 25
- Purpose: Screen for reasonably valued, neither extremely cheap nor extremely expensive stocks.
- Rationale:
- Below 5 can sometimes signal deep trouble (distress, one‑off gains, or the market expecting earnings to fall).
- Above 25 often indicates rich valuations where a lot of future growth is already priced in, which can be risky if expectations aren’t met.
This range aims for a balance: you’re not overpaying wildly, but you’re also not diving into “value traps.”
Why Results Match Your “$10” Request
- The price filter ($2–$10) directly ensures every stock found is affordable within your $10 budget per share.
- The market cap, beta, EPS, and revenue growth filters work together to keep you in the realm of bigger, profitable, growing companies, rather than speculative penny stocks.
- The P/E range adds a valuation sanity check so you’re not pushed into extremely overhyped or potentially broken businesses, which is especially important when you can only take one or a few shots with limited capital.
Overall, these filters try to answer “What can I buy for around $10?” with relatively stable, growing, and reasonably valued stocks, rather than just the cheapest or riskiest names under $10.
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.