Howdy! This week your stock screen comes to you from the US, where it is on a last-minute spring break.
There is also a serious point to our trip. Throughout the year, these pages focus on the domestic market for shares, which, for reasons of familiarity and ease, has long mattered most to our readers. But as individual US companies occupy an ever-larger role in UK portfolios, we have set aside a few weeks in our calendar to apply our stockpicking methods to the land of the free.
The broader purpose remains the same: to identify which quantitative approaches to investing work. With any luck, our US screens can also act as a source of idea generation and help highlight some of the many excellent companies that get drowned out by a relatively small clique of trillion-dollar companies.