Growth Screener

Description of Growth Screener

The growth companies’ data screen filters companies that have seen their revenue grow at a fast clip over the past several years. These companies also have manged to report growth in operating metrics such as net profit without over-leveraging their balance sheet. On the operating front, these companies have reported healthy returns on equity and returns on assets.

The primary objective of this data screen is to identify stocks with high growth potential across the small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap space. This is achieved by analysing 5-year historical revenue growth of companies, which indicates the business expansion trend of a company. This metric is combined with other fundamental metrics such as low debt-to-equity ratio, healthy return on assets, historical EBITDA growth coupled with institutional shareholdings to identify sustainable growth companies. . This data screen of Kalkine helps identify companies with positive price momentum showing profitable growth and a positive return on assets and can be considered as a form of growth companies’ screener to identify potential opportunities.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q. Which companies are growth companies?

Ans. If a company's revenues and profits grow at a faster clip than the market, then it is called a growth company. A growth company tends to have profitable reinvestment opportunities for its own retained earnings. Usually, these companies offer unique products and services and frequently own novel technologies or intellectual properties.

Q. How is a growth company different from a value company?

Ans. While growth companies are considered to have the potential to outperform the overall market growth over time because of the expected growth in demand for products and services they offer, value companies are classified as companies that are currently trading below their intrinsic value thus, are likely to provide sufficient cushion during volatile times.

Q. Does this screen show companies’ data from a particular sector?

Ans. No, this screen includes companies from across the sectors and the market capitalisation category.

Q. What do the Consensus Ratings and Consensus Mean Target Price of a company indicate?

Ans. The consensus mean target is deduced using statistical averages of broker estimates determined to be on the majority accounting basis and is provided by the licensed data provider. The price target is the projected price level forecasted by the respective analyst(s) within a specific time horizon.

The mean consensus rating is based on the data provided by the licensed data provider. The Consensus Rating is based on the Standard Scale of 1) Strong Buy, 2) Buy, 3) Hold, 4) Sell, and 5) Strong Sell.