Screener gave me 187 companies and I just closed the laptop. now what
u/Wise-Option-2683 ·
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· July 10, 2026 at 13:40
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Saturday morning I finally sat down to do this properly. Set up a screen with what I thought were strict filters, PE under 20, revenue growing, debt not crazy, market cap over 2 billion. Felt very smart for about ten seconds until it spat out 187 companies.
I scrolled the list for maybe twenty minutes, recognized Ford and a couple of banks, and ended up closing the laptop and watching the game instead. The one time I actually pushed through, I just bought one of the two names I already knew from the list, which kind of defeats the whole point of screening in the first place.
I've got maybe five hours a week for this stuff and there is no way I'm researching 187 companies. Honestly the giant list made me less likely to do anything than when I had no ideas at all. What do you guys actually do to get from the screener dump to a handful of names worth real time?