Yahoo as a company continues to amaze me! They have a great stock screener embedded inside Yahoo Finance but it's not searchable from the search engines (not even Yahoo search) unless you type the right keywords. A search for "Yahoo stock screener" on yahoo and google points to the primitive old screener page and there is no way to reach to the new comprehensive java based screener from the old page. Only if you type "yahoo stock screener java", you reach the new stock screener page.
This java based screener is great for individual investors such as me who cannot afford the expensive paid CapitalIQ subscriptions. It offers a boatload of screening criteria and can definitely be a handy tool in coming up with a shortlist of stocks to dig deeper into. However, few suggestions for the next version (if anyone at Yahoo is still supporting this tool):
- Consider making this tool a desktop downloadable software rather than as a web1.0 style java-enabled pop-up. Or at lease consider a savvy Web2.0 flash based version.
- There is no way to add geographic information on the screener (I want to look at the companies based out of US and not ADRs and there is no way to filter that)
- If you really want feedback from users, please fix the "Give us Feedback" link. Currently, it goes to a broken link.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
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