Profits & Profit Margins

In a recent basic training tutorial, Harry Domash reviewed profitcents - a free service that provides analysis on just about any company's financial condition.

The website essentially provides a 5 star grading system (1 star is the worst - 5 star is the best) in five categories: liquidity, profits and profit margin, borrowing, assets, and value. In Harry's checks, the profits and profitability grade has been proving to be a good tool as those with higher scores in this category recently outperformed others. While admittedly his testing was unscientific and limited in scope, it was enough for him to recommend the service.

Well, you know me - there's not a tool I won't use (especially if it is free) to see how my own watchlist ranks according to this type of ranking system. So, earlier this morning I ran all of the stocks currently found within my stock screen machine to see how they ranked according to "Profits and Profit Margin" grade. Like Harry, I performed comparisons using "one quarter against the same quarter from the prior year." Here's what I discovered.....[READ]