What should I buy today

Screening Filters

1. Market Cap ≥ $20B ('market_cap': {'min': '20000000000'})

   • Purpose: Focus on large, established companies.
   • Rationale: When you ask what you should consider buying “today,” a practical interpretation is: relatively stable, liquid names where you’re less likely to face extreme volatility or liquidity issues. A $20B+ market cap tilts you toward blue‑chip or near blue‑chip stocks, which are typically:
     • More transparent and better covered by analysts
     • Less prone to sudden illiquidity
     • More suitable as core portfolio holdings vs. speculative bets

2. Price Above 200-Day Moving Average ('moving_average_relationship': ['PriceAboveMA200'])

   • Purpose: Ensure the stock is in a longer‑term uptrend or at least not in a prolonged downtrend.
   • Rationale: The 200‑day moving average is a widely used gauge of long‑term trend. Requiring price > 200‑day MA:
     • Filters out many structurally weak or down‑trending names
     • Aligns you more with assets that have positive or recovering momentum
     • Reduces the chance of buying into severe, ongoing downtrends “just because” they look cheap

3. Component of S&P 500 ('is_index_component': ['GSPC'])

   • Purpose: Restrict results to large, established U.S. companies within a major benchmark index.
   • Rationale: The S&P 500 (GSPC) is the primary U.S. large‑cap equity index. Using this filter:
     • Ensures minimum standards of size, liquidity, and financial viability set by the index committee
     • Keeps you in widely held, diversified “core” equity names rather than niche or thinly traded stocks
     • Aligns with what many investors think of when they say “financial assets to consider buying today”

4. Revenue 5-Year CAGR ≥ 8% ('revenue_5yr_cagr': {'min': '8'})

   • Purpose: Focus on companies with solid, sustained top‑line growth.
   • Rationale: Over a five‑year horizon, 8%+ compound annual revenue growth indicates:
     • A business that is expanding rather than stagnating
     • Greater potential for earnings and cash flow growth to support future returns
     • Less risk of buying “value traps” that are cheap because the business is slowly shrinking

5. P/E (TTM) between 10 and 25 ('pe_ttm': {'min': '10', 'max': '25'})

   • Purpose: Balance between avoiding both very expensive and suspiciously cheap stocks.
   • Rationale:
     • Minimum P/E of 10: Excludes extremely low P/E names that can often signal distress, cyclical peak earnings, or structural problems, rather than genuine bargains.
     • Maximum P/E of 25: Screens out the highest‑valuation growth stories where expectations may be overly optimistic and downside risk can be large if growth disappoints.
     • Overall, this range tries to capture “reasonable valuation” among quality, growing companies.

Why Results Match Your Question

• You asked broadly what “financial assets” to consider buying today. In this context, the screener interprets that as high‑quality, liquid stocks suitable for consideration now, rather than speculative or illiquid assets.
• The combined filters:
  • Quality & Stability: Large‑cap, S&P 500 membership, and revenue growth filters tilt toward established, fundamentally sound companies.
  • Reasonable Growth: 5‑year revenue CAGR ≥ 8% ensures you’re looking at businesses that are actually expanding.
  • Valuation Discipline: P/E between 10 and 25 avoids the extremes of both very distressed and very speculative valuations.
  • Market Confirmation: Price above the 200‑day moving average adds a technical check so you’re not buying names in sustained downtrends.

Together, these filters generate a list of large, growing, reasonably valued U.S. stocks in established uptrends, which is a logical, conservative subset of “financial assets you might consider buying today” as a starting point for further research.