🚀 go-pugleaf

If you are thinking about investing in something, have enough brains to
trust NO ONE but YOURSELF to judge ANY investment opportunity.

Perform some easy to follow rules:
1) the company should be making a net profit ( now, in the past and
estimated into the future)
2) the company should be no more than 50% in debt (the less debt the
better usually)
3) a company paying a steady dividend (is a fair indicator for
stability) if dividends per share < = earnings per share
4) the company's P/E (stock trading price divided by earnings per share)
ratio should be reasonable ( P/E < 25 & P/E > 0 )
5) the company should be growing at a fair rate ( GRTH > 0 )
6) the company's average trading volume should be high enough to make it
a liquid security
        (one may have difficulty selling a thinly traded security)  AVG
TRD VOL > 40000 shares per day
7) the company should be a reasonable size (100 million market value
(number of shares outstanding times the current market price)  is quite
small these days)

By using a little common sense and the help of the net, one should be
able to find stocks that meet your idea of A GREAT OPPORTUNITY not some
Pump & Dump nut.

A few reasonable stock screeners I've found on the net are:

http://www.hoovers.com/search/forms/stockscreener/0,2221,71,00.html
http://screening.nasdaq.com/screening/NASDAQSearch.asp
http://screen.yahoo.com/stocks.html