The screener narrows the universe down to the companies that pass your criteria. You can find it in the app under Screener. It opens on the whole universe with no filter set, largest companies first, and every change you make is answered immediately — there is no Run button.
One row per company, from a snapshot rebuilt once a day after the US close: every US-listed company and ADR above $300M in market cap, delisted and inactive tickers excluded — about three thousand of them. Every price-based figure in a row is computed from the same stored close, so the P/E and the EV/EBIT you see in one row agree with each other. The date the snapshot was taken is printed above the table as Data as of …, close.
The screener is part of Ultimate. Every new account gets Ultimate for seven days with no credit card, and a screen you save stays on your account whichever plan you are on afterwards.
Press + Add filters to open the metric picker — search by name, or walk the eight categories: Overview, Valuation, Profitability, Growth, Financial Health, Dividends, Performance and Lemma, the last being our own Quality Score, intrinsic value and dividend-aristocrat flag. Tick a metric and its filter appears as a pill on the bar above the table.
Click a pill to set it. What the dropdown offers depends on the metric:
10B, 300M, or a plain number.Any empties a filter and leaves the pill where it is; Remove filter takes it off the bar, and Clear all returns you to the whole universe. The counter above the table says how many companies passed, and a line under the bar says what each filter cost you in companies that have no value for it — Excluded for missing data: FCF yield 38. That number is counted against the rest of your filters, so it answers “how many more would I see if this one filter did not need a value”.
They mean different things and are never conflated:
n/m — not meaningful for this company. A bank has no enterprise value; a loss-making company has no P/E.— — not collected. The vendor is silent, or the fill has not reached that company yet.Neither is ever shown as a zero, and a filter excludes both. A company that pays no dividend, on the other hand, has a dividend yield of 0 — that is a measurement, not a hole.
The tabs above the table are column sets. Filtered is the default and is exactly what it says: market cap plus one column for every filter you have set, so the table shows the numbers you are screening on. The other tabs are the catalogue's categories, and Custom is the set you pick yourself through the same picker the filters use.
Click a column header to sort by it. The first click takes the direction the metric deserves — the best ROIC first, the cheapest P/E first — and the second flips it. Sorting and paging happen on the server, so the order holds across pages; the row count per page is 25, 50 or 100.
The Screens button opens two lists. Lemma screens are ours — Dividend Aristocrats, Deep Value, Quality Compounders, Growth at a Reasonable Price and others — each a set of filters, columns and a sort. My screens are the ones you have saved.
Loading a screen is a starting point, not a mode: its filters land on the bar and everything stays editable. Once you change something, the name carries an Edited chip beside it. Over one of your own screens you then get Save and Save as new; over a Lemma screen only Save as new, because ours stays as it is and what you build is yours. Rename and delete live in the same menu; deleting a screen takes the name and leaves the filters you are looking at alone.
A screen is also its address. Everything — filters, columns, sort, page — lives in the URL, so the back button walks through the filters you actually tried, and the link in your address bar opens the same screen for anybody you send it to.
A company name is a link to its ticker page (Ctrl- or Cmd-click to open it in a tab). Tick the checkboxes in the first column and an action bar appears under the table naming what you have selected:
The selection survives a change of page and a change of filters — companies worth comparing are rarely next to each other — which is why the bar names the tickers as well as counting them.
Beside a name you may also see a marker for a company you hold in a portfolio or keep on a watchlist. It is a footnote on the answer, never a filter: such a row is never hidden, reordered or highlighted for it.
Below tablet width the filter bar collapses into one Filters (3) button that opens the same filters as a full-screen sheet, and the metric picker opens full-screen too. Nothing is staged there and there is no Apply: each change is applied as you make it, and the button at the foot of the sheet carries the match count — the one thing you cannot see while the table is covered. The table stays a table, with the first column pinned and the rest scrolling sideways.