What should I buy for 10

Screening Filters

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.