Screening columns and data

This reference lists the columns available in the Research terminal screener, grouped by category. Every column can be displayed, sorted, and, for numeric columns, summarized and filtered. The screener offers more than 350 metrics, so this page documents them by category rather than cell by cell. Each cell is formatted to its natural unit: currency, percent, ratio, plain number, market-cap shorthand such as 1.2T or 340B, or a date. Missing values show as N/A. For plain-language definitions and formulas of individual metrics, see Data dictionary.

Reference

Access is gated at the column level. A large core set is available to Free, Pro Lite, and Pro. A large premium set requires the Pro plan, including all GNG proprietary scores and ratings as columns, the sentiment scores, most technicals, the analyst counts, the multi-year compound growth metrics, the five-year average metrics, and the free-cash-flow metrics. Locked columns appear with a lock marker in the column selector.

Identity and profile

The fields that identify and describe a security.

Symbol, Company Name, and Description.
Asset Type (Stock, ETF, or Preferred), Sector, Industry, Exchange, Country, and Currency.
Last Close price, Beta, and the 52-Week High and 52-Week Low.
The 50-Day and 200-Day moving averages, and the 30-day and 10-day average volume.
Fiscal Year End, Latest Quarter, and the GNG Model Portfolios a ticker belongs to.

Valuation

Standard valuation ratios and per-method fair value estimates.

Market Cap, P/E, Trailing P/E, and Forward P/E.
PEG, PEGY, and Cash-Adjusted PEGY.
P/B, P/S (TTM), EV/Revenue, EV/EBITDA, and Book Value.
Per-method fair value estimates derived from earnings (PE), sales (PS), book value (PB), operating cash flow (P/OCF), funds from operations for REITs (P/FFO), free cash flow (P/FCF), and dividend yield.

These per-method estimates are standard multiple-based valuations. The single blended Fair Value that combines them is a GNG proprietary output, covered under GNG scoring below.

GNG scoring

These columns are GNG Research's own scores and ratings. They are described by what they measure, the kinds of inputs they draw on, their scale, and how to read them. The exact formulas, weights, coefficients, and thresholds are proprietary and are not published. For how to interpret each, see Ratings overview and Fair value and valuation.

Safety Score and Quality Score: business-health and dividend-safety reads on a 0-to-100 scale where higher is stronger.
Rating: the seven-tier valuation rating that places a security into a band from the strongest buy levels down to a trim or sell level.
GNG Quant Score and GNG Quant Rating: a 0-to-100 quantitative composite with a matching Strong Buy to Strong Sell rating.
Wall Street Rating and Analyst Upside: the consensus posture and the implied upside to the analyst target.
Fair Value, Discount to Fair Value, and the buy-zone thresholds (Good Buy, Strong Buy, Very Strong Buy, Ultra Value Buy) plus the Trim price.
Earnings Metric Used: which earnings measure the model selected for a company.

Financial health and solvency

Balance-sheet strength, leverage, and bankruptcy-risk readings.

Current Ratio, Quick Ratio, and Cash per Share.
Debt/Equity, Debt/EBITDA, Debt/Capital, and Long-Term Debt/Capital.
Interest Coverage and Cash Interest Coverage.
ROIC, Payout Ratio, and Short Interest %.
An extended leverage set: Total Debt Ratio, Net Debt and several Net-Debt ratios, the Short-Term Debt mix, Liabilities/Equity, and Interest-bearing-debt/Assets.
The Altman Z-Score, the Piotroski F-Score, and the Beneish M-Score, three published academic composites for bankruptcy risk, fundamental strength, and earnings-manipulation risk.

Profitability and quality

Margins, returns on capital, and earnings-consistency reads.

Profit Margin, and Operating Margin (TTM and 5-year average).
Gross Margin (TTM and 5-year average) and Net Margin (5-year average).
ROA and ROE (TTM and 5-year average), and ROIC (5-year average).
EBITDA, Basic Earnings Power, Gross Profitability, NOPAT Margin, and Operating Leverage.
Positive-earnings and positive-FCF streak counts.

Cash flow quality

How much of reported earnings becomes cash, and how reliably.

Operating Cash Flow (TTM) and OCF Margin.
FCF Margin, the Cash and FCF Conversion ratios, and the 3-year average FCF margin with an FCF-consistency read.
Capex/Sales and Capex/OCF.
Cash ROA, Cash ROIC, and CFO/Total Debt.

Growth

Recent and multi-year growth in fundamentals.

Forward Growth Rate and Long-Term Growth.
Quarterly earnings and revenue growth, year over year.
Three- and five-year compound annual growth rates for revenue, EPS, operating income, FCF, book value per share, dividends per share, net debt, and share count. A negative share-count growth rate flags buybacks.

Free cash flow

Valuation and yield based on free cash flow.

Price/FCF, EV/FCF, and FCF Yield.
TTM FCF and FCF per Share.

Dividends

Income level, timing, and growth.

Dividend Yield and Dividend per Share.
Dividend Date, Ex-Dividend Date, and the typical Pay-Date Pattern.
Dividend-per-share growth rates.

Capital allocation and shareholder yield

How a company returns and reinvests capital.

Dividends/OCF and Dividends/FCF.
Net Share Buyback, Buyback Yield, and Total Shareholder Yield.
Reinvestment Rate, R&D Intensity, SG&A Intensity, and Net Debt Paydown Yield.

Efficiency and working capital

How efficiently a company turns assets into sales.

Inventory, Receivables, and Payables turnover, each with its day count.
The Cash Conversion Cycle, Working Capital/Revenue, and Current Asset Turnover.

Earnings quality and calendar

Surprise history and upcoming dates.

Average EPS surprise (4-quarter and 8-quarter) and the EPS Beat Rate.
Worst EPS Surprise, EPS Volatility, Revenue Growth Volatility, and Earnings Seasonality.
Next Earnings Date, Next Earnings EPS Estimate, and Last Earnings Date.

Price momentum, returns, and volatility

Trailing performance and risk readings.

Returns over 1, 3, 6, and 12 months, and Total Return (12M).
Distance to the 52-week high and low.
Dollar-volume and volume-surge readings.
Realized volatility (20-day and 60-day), Max Drawdown (1Y), and ATR-based readings.
RSI, price-versus-200-day moving average, and the 50-day-versus-200-day moving-average spread.

Technical indicators

A large library of standard, publicly defined indicators. Each is the conventional charting measure of the same name.

Trend: simple and exponential moving averages (10, 20, 50, 200), MACD with its signal and histogram, ADX with the positive and negative directional indicators, Aroon, Parabolic SAR, SuperTrend and its direction, the Ichimoku lines and cloud spans, and the Donchian and Keltner channels.
Momentum: RSI at several lengths, Stochastic and Stochastic RSI, Williams %R, Rate of Change at many lengths, CCI, MFI, TSI, the Ultimate Oscillator, KST, PPO, DPO, the Awesome Oscillator, Elder Force Index, and Ease of Movement.
Volatility: ATR and ATR %, standard deviation, Bollinger Bands (upper, lower, %B, width), a volatility-squeeze flag, the Ulcer Index, and the Choppiness Index.
Volume: OBV and the A/D line, Chaikin Money Flow, volume SMAs and ratios, VWMA, VWAP, and the Negative and Positive Volume Index.
Pivots: classic pivot points with three resistance levels and three support levels.

Market sentiment

News-based sentiment over rolling windows. These columns require Pro.

A 0-to-100 news-sentiment score.
A Bullish, Neutral, or Bearish label.
Each measured over four windows: 48 hours, 7 days, 30 days, and 60 days.

Analyst data

Wall Street consensus inputs.

Analyst Target Price.
The counts of Strong Buy, Buy, Hold, Sell, and Strong Sell ratings.

Government contracts

Federal contract exposure for companies that supply the U.S. government, built from public USAspending.gov award records.

Gov Obligations (TTM) and Gov Obligations YoY: trailing federal contract dollars and their year-over-year change.
Gov Obligations / Revenue: federal obligations as a share of company revenue, a read on how government-dependent the business is.
Top Federal Agency and Top Agency Share: the largest customer agency and how concentrated the relationship is.
Active Federal Awards and Avg Remaining Term: how many awards are running and how much contract runway remains, in months.

Companies with no verified federal prime contracts show N/A across this group.

Estimates and returns

Forward-looking columns built from professional analyst consensus estimates and the GNG Fair Value. Coverage varies by company and shrinks as the horizon extends: a value appears only where enough analyst estimates exist, and every column in this group shows N/A when its inputs are missing rather than guessing.

Consensus growth: the annualized growth rate the analyst consensus implies for EPS, Revenue, and Dividends at one, two, and three fiscal years out, plus the longest-horizon annualized consensus growth for EBITDA, EBIT, Net Income, Free Cash Flow, and Operating Cash Flow. Growth is measured between consensus estimates for the same company, starting from its latest completed fiscal year, and annualized by actual day count. A column shows N/A when the starting value is missing, negative, or too small to produce a meaningful rate. A dividend consensus falling to zero legitimately shows as a negative one hundred percent growth rate.
Consensus coverage: Estimate Horizon (Years) reports how many fiscal years forward analysts publish estimates for the company. Analysts on Longest EPS Est is a reliability gauge for the long-horizon columns, since far-out estimates rest on fewer analysts. Est EPS Growth (Longest, Ann.) and Est Revenue Growth (Longest, Ann.) carry the consensus to the farthest published year. Best Long-Term Consensus Metric and Best Long-Term Consensus Growth report which fundamental the consensus is most optimistic about long term, and its annualized rate.
Justified returns: the return implied if the share price converges to the GNG Fair Value, with dividend yield included. The 12-Month Justified Return uses fair value as it stands today. The Long-Term Justified Return grows fair value at the company's longest-horizon consensus EPS growth rate before annualizing, and the Justified Return Horizon shows how many years of consensus runway sit behind it. The 5-Year Justified Return is the fixed five-year variant so companies can be compared on one horizon. Because these columns build on the GNG Fair Value, the fair value method itself remains proprietary; see Fair value and valuation. Justified returns show N/A without a fair value, for shares priced under one dollar, or when pricing is more than thirty days stale, so the column never publishes a return promise from degenerate inputs.

Summary row outputs

For any numeric column, you can turn on Sum, Average, Median, and Count. These are computed over the rows currently loaded into the table and shown in a summary row directly under the header. Count reports how many loaded rows have a real, non-missing value for that column.