Top Facts About StockScouter

StockScouter is an investment tool created by MSN and first released for public use in July of 2001. Developed alongside Camelback Research Alliance Inc, an independent research facility with its base in Arizona, known for their cutting edge financial managing, the StockScouter program uses data and mathematics to determine a stock's likelihood to perform well in the current market. Experts at MSN have discovered the traits that most influence performance and thereby developed a system to assist in every aspect of investing.

StockScouter is designed to look for stocks with a strong earning profile, recent positive earnings for their investors and a powerful stock chart. More than 5000 stocks are rated on a bell-curve scale from one to ten with 10 being the best pick. Due to the bell curve used to rank, stocks with a rating between 4 and 7 are expected to perform in line with the market. Four main factors are considered when coming up with a rating. These factors include:

Fundamentals of a company, their earnings and growth history; Ownership, whether the company shares belong to executives and board members; Valuation of the stock in regards to its current expected earnings growth; and the technical factor which reviews whether a stock's price trend is negative or positive.