1. Revenue Growth..Year on Year
2. Profit Before Tax Growth
3. Growth in profits on Quarter-Quarter comparatives
4. Growth in Earnings..year on year

..... thus far i hit a snag.

what next?

1. Earnings as percentage of revenues or PBT as percentage of revenues?

2. Break all the above on per share basis?

3. Compare each of the above to market cap; to check on how investors are valuing each shilling of Revenue/PBT/Earnings etc etc?

4. Calculate return based on Assets/Working Capital/ Cash/ Operating expenses ?

which is the best criteria to make an automatic stock picking investing system that works with little or no input from me on a daya by day basis?

Also reduction in costs

Thats were u are wrong don't be old school...LOL..latest ICT statistics show that there's 1 mobile phone per adult in Kenya...anyways print will be dead soon...i was suggesting a mobile website for the start...

Ok lemme know when u ready to start...it's a great idea...maybe i can buy some equity in your start up.

Proverb.
It's so difficult to generalise the market and come up with a knit up formula. And that's why no one wants to comit to a given .
Everything is run by emotions, in this case investor's ferlings.

ProvB..i think the best thing is to consider the business.Coz every business has different variables to consider. And deep down, what i use is i think of assuming i had billions to invest and i had the ability to buy the whole company, what are some of the things i would think about. There, you'll realize that life becomes easy and your not shaken by day to day changes in value of ur portfolio coz the business value hasn't changed that much. Its easier to build a great portfolio like that.
But if you want short cuts, you may sell to early or buy the stocks at wrong times.
Another suggestion, you should read the book Zulu Principle by Jim Slater...it'll tells you how good you can be at something when you narrow down your vision on a few things and decide to be good at them. So you can decide to specialize in financials or industrials or which ever, as long as you horn ur skill in that and realize the real variable to look at. I think thats why WB has chosen Todd Combs to be his successor. Simply because this guys focuses on financials and he majored in them.

Thanx man.. much appreciated


[quote=the deal]Sir John Templeton has 10 maxims...cram them and you will be safe...[/quote]

where do i find em?

Thanks, I will check their website

@ProverB Hmmmn, I know the ranking that would make sense for me in the NSE:

One that lists intrinsic value of each counter - whatever that is?
http://www.moneychimp.co...uation/buffett_calc.htm