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Advanced Screening with Stock Rover

February 4, 2026 Printer Friendly Printer Friendly

Key Takeaway: With thousands of stocks to choose from, finding the right investment can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. Stock Rover’s Advanced Screening cuts through the noise by allowing you to filter, score, and rank the entire market based on hundreds of financial criteria, instantly delivering a shortlist of high-potential candidates.

In our previous posts, we covered how to calculate a stock’s Fair Value and how to compare it against its Peers. But before you can value a stock, you have to find it.

With thousands of companies listed on the exchanges, you can’t analyze them all one by one. You need a way to filter out the noise and find the hidden gems. This is where Advanced Screening comes in.

What is Advanced Screening?

Think of basic screening like a fishing net that catches everything above a certain size. Advanced screening is more like a spear gun. It allows you to filter, score, and rank based on complex criteria. It doesn’t just ask “Which stocks pass the test?”—it asks “Which stocks passed with the highest distinction?”, allowing you to focus on the absolute best opportunities for your specific strategy.

How Stock Rover Automates the Hunt

Stock Rover turns the market into a searchable database, giving you professional-grade tools that turn a manual chore into a competitive advantage:

Access over 150 strategies created by industry experts, covering everything from “Buffettology” to “Growth at a Reasonable Price.”
While many tools just give you a list of results, Stock Rover allows you to rank them. By assigning weights to your criteria (e.g., prioritizing Valuation over Momentum), the best matches automatically float to the top of the list.
Go beyond simple numbers with custom logic. You can filter for specific trends, such as finding companies where “Free Cash Flow has grown every year for the last 5 years.”

Step-by-Step: Finding Winners with Stock Rover

  1. Step 1: Browse the Screener Library

    Navigate to the Library in the Start Menu. Here you can import proven strategies to populate your table with high-potential candidates. Three powerful “Premium Plus” screeners for fundamental investors include:

    • “Scores”: The ultimate quality filter. This screener targets stocks with top-tier ratings for Value, Growth, and Sentiment, while requiring a safe Altman Z-Score and high Piotroski F-Score.

    • “GARP – Premium Plus”: Finds “Growth at a Reasonable Price” by prioritizing attractive valuation ratios (like PEG) while enforcing strict filters for consistent historical earnings growth and a positive Margin of Safety.

    • “Value with Growth”: A ranked screener that hunts for the “sweet spot” of investing—companies with low valuation multiples (like EV/EBITDA) but high expected earnings growth.

    Stock Rover Screener Library

  2. Step 2: Rank Your Results

    Once you run a ranked screener, don’t just look at the list of tickers, look at the “Rank” column in the Table. This column acts as a scorecard, displaying exactly where that ticker ranks among the results based on the strategy’s criteria.

    For example, in the GARP – Premium Plus screener, a stock with a lower PEG ratio and higher Margin of Safety will achieve a higher rank (e.g., #1 or #2) than a stock that barely squeezed through the filter. This ensures you spend your time analyzing the best of the best.

    Pro Tip: Hover over a stock’s Rank to reveal a detailed scoring breakdown. The tooltip shows exactly how the stock performed on each criterion, displaying its raw value, percentile, and specific contribution to the total score, so you understand why it ranked where it did.

    Ranked Screener Results in Table

  3. Step 3: Verify with the Insight Panel

    Select a top-ranked stock in the Table and open the Insight Panel. Use the Summary tab to confirm the company passes the “eye test” by checking that it currently trades below its Fair Value with a healthy Margin of Safety, while also reviewing its history for consistent earnings per share (EPS) growth.

    Insight Panel Summary Verification

Key Screening Metrics at a Glance

While you can screen for almost anything—including the Fair Value and Margin of Safety metrics we discussed in previous posts—these three “Power Metrics” are favorites among advanced investors for finding quality stocks.

Piotroski F-Score
A 0-9 score measuring financial strength. High scores (7-9) indicate improving fundamentals and lower risk.
Altman Z-Score
A formula used to predict bankruptcy risk. A score above 3.0 suggests the company is in the “Safe Zone.”
Stock Rover Quality Score
A proprietary 0-100 rating aggregating profitability, margins, and balance sheet health. Scores above 80 indicate elite operational efficiency.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I screen for historical data?
Yes. Stock Rover allows you to screen based on historical trends using equations. For example, the GARP Premium Plus screener filters for companies where “Operating Income 5-Year Avg > 4%” and uses historical metrics to ensure “EPS [TTM1] > EPS [TTM2]” (meaning earnings over the most recent trailing twelve months are higher than the twelve months prior to that). This allows you to mathematically verify a trend of consistent growth.

Can I customize these pre-built screeners?
Absolutely. Think of the Library screeners as professional templates. You have full control to modify them whether you want to adjust the ranking weights, add new criteria (like a specific dividend yield), or tighten the filters to perfectly align the strategy with your personal investment goals.

Note: Advanced screening tools, including Ranked Screening and Equation Screening are part of our Premium Plus plan. You can explore all plan options here.




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