Scanning w/ EPS Growth

DoctorT

Hi!

Using the Advanced Scan Workbench and EPS in the Ticker Properties, what options do I have to specify EPS growth?

Thank you!

Doctor T

markd

The documentation for the EPS ticker property says

"The last reported EPS value for the security. "

So, it looks like the database only keeps the most current EPS data.

https://stockcharts.com/docs/doku.php?st=eps&id=scans:reference:ticker_properties

That suggests you cannot compare the current EPS number to previous EPS numbers. I tried

and [EPS > 251 days ago EPS]

but it doesn't pass syntax.

DoctorT

Dear markd,

Thank you for your reply.

Bad news!

Doctor T

markd

You could try Finviz.com to screen for PEG (if that's helpful)

finviz/screener/valuation/ sort on PEG column

or, if you hit the "Fundamental" tab, you can filter for PEG level

DoctorT

Dear markd,

Thank you!

I'll check it out.

Doctor T

lmkwin

markd is correct. You would need to establish a baseline block of stocks in a list and then run scans against that list. Updata Analytics software suffers the same shortcoming on fundamental fronts. I like StockCharts scanning much better. Only a few things missing from StockCharts vs Updata as far as I can tell. I'm making the suggestions to tech support so hopefully they will add them to an already great platform.

IamJim

Morning fellows, and just chiming in on this = 7 years later back on the ranch.

Has this changed to be able to get historical data changing for this please?

If not? WHY

As to me in IT, IT is very simple as they are our data providers and we are paying for IT. This data for sure is "in the package" of their feed(s)

So All aboard? as >> "Strength in Numbers"

Advantage of a group of people
Strength in numbers refers to the advantage of a group of people. When people are together in a group, they have more influence or power than one person.

And there is four of us here pi**ing $$$$ AWAY -SMILE- just on one post.

Financially foolish to pay for something, just to leave it, and get it for free?

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/quotes/revenue-eps

Straight from the Horse's SOURCE !!

THAT IS SAD, but is true.

And Markd please? Do they allow you any back end control panel on this thing, to see how many active-recent users there are 'scan' sir?

TY again for all responses, even though I might not get to them promptly

markd

No, my powers are limited. My only connection with Stockcharts is as a subscriber, and with s.c.a.n. as a member and moderator. No administrative or policy role at all, anywhere.

Re your assertion "this data for sure is "in the package" of their feed(s) - I don't know that and I don't know how you know that. If you do, please share.

Also, as you probably know, Stockcharts originated as a charting site, not a database for retrieving fundamental data. There are plenty of those already. Theoretically, technical analysis does not require fundamental data at all, but evidently some people also want at least some non-technical data, so there is some. Whether they will follow through on evident plans to expand on that, I don't know. If they decide its a competitive necessity, I expect they will. To me, its irrelevant, except I do like to see the dividend yield (though not for timing purposes). But, if you can't make up your mind based on the chart, you (not you personally) may be using fundamental data as an excuse for not making up your mind, when all you really need to know is on the chart.

IamJim

And without you? They would be lost... so thanks

Simple as 1,2,3?

I am here "paying for the scanner-only" for lack of better words Mark

Both these are recorded, [and have been FED to them, yet unable to access by us historically]

1) EPS Data
NEXT EARNINGS DATE
2025-02-20
LAST EARNINGS DATE
2024-11-06

2)
Same thing, for the ability for options, the IT is all there, yet non-scan-able.

https://stockcharts.com/freecharts/options/?sym=lz&view=straddle

You odds are they answer in a heartbeat? Could you ask for the DB Structure?

Simple Field Order = that would show optimal; scan syntax order

Have you ever used a spreadsheet yet in your life ? -just kidding- But back in the mid 80's when I worked for GTE Government Systems

Please note the date here?? [wink] 1984

https://ojs.aaai.org/aimagazine/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/450

I myself = 1986-1988 Onsite and then remote thru 1999 thru buyouts

https://www.verizon.com/about/news/press-releases/general-dynamics-acquire-three-units-gte-government-systems-105-billion

I had direct email contacts with Lotus 1-2-3 developers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_1-2-3

as wells Gates [DOS 3.0 era] [bug reporting and I was on beta teams thru 2003 = FREE OS's lol]

and Peter Norton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander

Long before "Charts" and Imaging?" as next was CAD

And without those "3 Amigo's" above & IBM [had them in my contacts also]

3) =

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w35SGb9WqQ



re: when all you really need to know is on the chart

Which is history -wink- are we not here to predict the future also? There are FREE user definable CHART's [all that this does] & FinData all over this pla·gia·rized Internet

all FWIW of Common Sense lost thru the years to iPhone & Android users

markd

Thanks for the resume and the compliment.

While I respect your experience, I don't see where it says database design and management. That is a specialty. There's a lot more to think about than data structures. Maybe you already know this, but once you add or modify a data structure, you have to find and test every line of legacy code that touches those records. Any existing arrays that will include the new piece of data have get new parameters. Array references may have to be modified if data was moved (bad idea, but you might get forced into it). Variables have to be defined carefully. Libraries have to be updated. Dynamic memory allocations for loading and unloading the records have to be modified. Disk space has to be re-estimated and possibly reallocated. Response times may be affected. And so on. For sophisticated databases no change is a small change.

Development is nice, because you start with a clean slate. Maintenance takes a special kind of person because it is a completely different skill set and much harder (if you did bug reporting, you know).

So, considering the investment, there has to be a pretty good business case for changes. Does somebody else already do it better, are we losing subscribers because of it, would it attract new subscribers more than something else, etc., etc. As you probably remember, multiply any time estimate by two, and any cost estimate by three.

peterinjapan

Man, I would KILL for a way to scan for EPS growth. I will reach out to Stockcharts just in case.

lmkwin

You don't need to commit a crime. There are other sites that you can scan for it if you believe it to be that important. Some of the ones I mention below may require a membership, or not, to access that information, but it's available for those desperately seeking it.

You can scan for EPS growth on Finviz (I'm not a member there) You can scan for EPS growth on Chartmill (I am a member there). You can scan for EPS growth on IBD (I am a member there).

IamJim

And if I ever find my >

A round tuit is a circular object that is used as a joke or motivational tool for anyone who procrastinates1. It is a humorous term that refers to an object that supposedly gives its owner the ability to get done everything that would have otherwise been put off to a later date "when they got around to it"23. The letters "TUIT" or "ROUND TUIT" are usually written, printed or embossed on a piece of paper, card, metal, wood or ceramic object, which is usually round itself

We'll have these ;-)



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And Mark [ty for reply] digging deeper? You would have found my "mentor", whom I had worked with, remotely so??

That is regarding databases + how to work with "just 4 MEG" and memory management

While "serving time" in my GTE gig's back in the day -smile-



https://knowledge-discovery.com/bio.htm

https://knowledge-discovery.com/

So for me & all the AI hype? 40 years later = [just a scam] at this time in history aka SOMEONE gonna lose big time in the markets -wink- eventually