What is MarketGrader.com

MarketGrader.com is a stock research company that uses technology extensively in the analysis of public companies' financial statements and presents the results to investors in a user-friendly format. Our goal is to simplify the research process in order to help investors achieve their financial goals. We focus on understanding the financial health of every company we cover and in finding those that are consistently creating economic value and lasting shareholder value. This means that regardless of a company's business, whether building widgets, providing a service or exchanging goods, we believe that at the end of the day its performance can be graded on the basis of its financial success. While we understand well that all companies are different, particularly across different industries and sectors, ultimately they all serve (or should) the same purpose: maximizing returns for their shareholders. The purpose of our research is to grade their ability to achieve this goal.

Stock Research Process

MarketGrader.com's research focuses on identifying the companies that are consistently creating economic value today in order to help our clients find the stock that will create shareholder value tomorrow through the extensive use of technology.

While we understand that no company or industry is immune to the ups and downs of economic and business cycles, we believe well managed, profitable companies focused on building wealth for their shareholders will always stand out in the long run and make for the best investments. And while qualitative research helps investors understand the story behind each company including its products, management, competition and its business in general, quantitative research helps investors understand the story told by the company's numbers, which usually don't lie. Even though the term 'quantitative' is usually associated with black boxes, complex mathematical formulas and secret methodologies in general, at MarketGrader.com we give it a different meaning. To us quantitative research is about taking advantage of today's technology to perform relatively simple processes thousands of times reliably and efficiently. Our quantitative research process is about performing a thorough and intelligent analysis of a single company's fundamentals once, getting it right and then repeating the process across thousands of companies daily. By 'getting it right' we don't mean to imply we have a magic formula or crystal ball that will never fail. What we mean is that the purpose of our research process is to arrive at the essence of a company's financial health by analyzing its financial statements and identifying its fundamental strengths and weaknesses. Our analysis identifies if a company is successful at what it does, if it is growing, if it is run in the best interest of its shareholders, and whether its shares can be bought for a reasonable price.

Fundamental Research: measuring success

Our research is fundamental, which is the term used in our industry to describe the analysis of a company's financial statements. Company fundamentals are simply sales, expenses, cash flow, income and all other labels used to describe a company's financial results. While our system provides our clients with much more than just company fundamentals including technical analysis tools, sentiment indicators that measure the supply and demand for a company's shares, and trend information, for example, the core of our research and our grades is a company's financial reports. Essentially we believe that what matters most in the analysis of public companies is understanding how successful every company is at what it does.

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