The 2013 list is out and each year I go through the list to try and find winners.
Forbes best small companies list
write about as many as possible
About Jae Jun
Jae Jun is the founder of Old School Value on a mission to provide practical and actionable value investing tools, tutorials and educational material.
Forbes best small companies list
write about as many as possible
- annual revenue between $5 million and $1 billion
- stock price no lower than $5 a share
- excluded financial institutions, REITs, utilities and limited partnerships
- rankings are based on earnings growth, sales growth and return on equity in the past 12 months and over five years
- dropped thinly traded names and those with fuzzy accounting or major legal troubles
- factored in stock performance versus each company’s peer group during the last year as of Oct. 1
- financial data is pulled from Reuters
- fundamentals via FactSet
- Filter the stocks closest to its 52 week low – rather than analyze the ones that are already up 125% YTD like QCOR, start with the ones at the bottom of the barrel.
- Filter based on cheap fundamentals such as P/FCF
- Go through the companies with zero debt
About Jae Jun Jae Jun is the founder of Old School Value on a mission to provide practical and actionable value investing tools, tutorials and educational material.