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What are some key values to look for to find a good stock to invest in? Where to find a good simple screener?

I'm Looking for P/E, P/S things like that. I don't have a lot of time to look at all the data I need some basic values to narrow down my choices.

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1. Price > $5 90 day Volume > 250,000 shares per day Capitalization > $100M Relative Strength >70 percentile MoneyStream >70 Profit Margin in the upper 50th percentile Revenue Growth Earinings Growth PEG < 1.5 Once I have my selection I look at the charts for a good buying opportunity... MACD crossing above the zero line Stocastics are not overbought Good Industry in good Sector (Top 20% industries) For screening stocks try...
2. My favorite free screeners are (a) the 'deluxe' screener at MSN http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/finder/customstocks.asp (b) the one at Morningstar http://screen.morningstar.com/StockSelector.html?ssection=StockScreener If you have an online brokerage you will probably have access to other screeners as well. I usually start out by looking at P/E versus growth rates, which can be most easily looked at with the PEG ratio, and ratios of efficiency and performance such as ROI, ROE, and cash flow. I normally only look at one industry at a time, since many of these ratios can be expected to vary between industries and it would be misleading to compare, say, banks to consumer goods companies. And of course some industries have brighter prospects in the next 6-12 months than others. I also look at their overall balance sheet and financial statements, look at insider sales and of course doublecheck with news reports to make sure there's not a real good reason for the stock[s] being cheap...
3. I use the stock screener on yahoo, does just fine. I like to buy stocks that are low $5-$30 range. At the min I would check trade vol, p/e and new reports on desired company.