Scored US large caps on business quality with valuation excluded. Two names near the top are down almost 60% from their highs.
u/stockoscope ·
Reddit — r/ValueInvesting
· August 21, 2026 at 10:17
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Post presents a business-quality screen for US large caps, scoring each name on growth, margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, liquidity, leverage, and asset efficiency while excluding valuation.
The author highlights APP and ADBE as high-quality names down ~60% from highs, suggesting a possible divergence between market pricing and fundamentals.
The list is explicitly described as a shortlist for further investigation, not a buy list; PLTR is flagged as expensive despite a high quality score.
Quality assessment: This is systematic, fundamentals-focused screening rather than speculation, but it is incomplete without valuation and forward-looking due diligence.
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Sharing the current results of our quality algorithm. It scores each stock twice, once against absolute thresholds and once against its sector peers, then blends the two 70:30 into the overall score.
Both sides are built from the same eight things, working down from the income statement to the balance sheet: growth, per-share trends, margins, asset efficiency, returns on capital, how much profit converts to cash, liquidity, and leverage and interest cover. Valuation and dividend metrics are not included. See [the previous post for more details](https://www.reddit.com/r/ValueInvesting/comments/1p66zqm/10_essential_questions_every_investor_should_ask/).
Results are from US large caps excluding materials, utilities and consumer cyclicals. Some interesting names in there. Both APP and ADBE are down around 60% for different reasons, but they're on the list, so the market and the fundamentals aren't agreeing for them. PLTR will surprise a few as it is quite expensive, but the algo did not consider valuation.
What do you think of the selections? Which ones do you own? Which ones do you not like?
It is not a buy list - it is a shortlist for further investigation.
Not investment advice. DYOR.
The author and Stockoscope may hold positions in some of the names.
|\#|Ticker|Company|Score /10|Absolute|Peer|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|1|APP|AppLovin|8.6|4.4|4.3|
|2|TPL|Texas Pacific Land|8.5|4.5|3.9|
|3|NVDA|NVIDIA|8.4|4.3|4.3|
|4|EXEL|Exelixis|8.3|4.1|4.6|
|5|ADBE|Adobe|8.3|4.4|3.9|
|6|META|Meta Platforms|8.2|4.3|3.9|
|7|GOOGL|Alphabet|8.0|4.2|4.0|
|8|PAYC|Paycom Software|8.0|4.1|4.2|
|9|PLTR|Palantir Technologies|8.0|4.0|4.4|
|10|EOG|EOG Resources|7.9|4.1|4.0|
|11|MSFT|Microsoft|7.8|4.2|3.7|
|12|MA|Mastercard|7.8|4.1|3.9|
|13|TW|Tradeweb Markets|7.7|3.9|4.1|
|14|MEDP|Medpace Holdings|7.7|4.0|4.0|
|15|ANET|Arista Networks|7.7|4.1|3.7|
APP ranks first with an 8.6/10 business-quality score despite being down roughly 60% from its highs. A high-quality business trading near lows can indicate a mispricing opportunity; the author states market and fundamentals disagree. Add to watchlist as a possible long candidate; further work is needed on valuation and the reason for the drawdown. The price decline may reflect forward-looking risks not captured by the quality algorithm; valuation was excluded from the score.
This Reddit post, published August 21, 2026,
features u/stockoscope
discussing APP, ADBE.
2 trade ideas extracted by AI with direction and confidence scoring.