IN PLAIN ENGLISH
The screener's 0–100 ranking of a result by its yield, size, stability and trading volume.
WHERE YOU MEET IT
Min quality score in the screener's filters, and the score on each result.
WATCH OUT FOR
It says nothing about valuation, debt or growth. A sorting aid, not a verdict.
FULL DEFINITION
A 0-100 composite ranking used by the Screener to order results by income, size, stability and liquidity.
EXAMPLE
A large, liquid utility yielding 5% with a beta of 0.6 scores highly; a small, volatile, non-paying stock scores near zero.
HOW IT'S CALCULATED
Quality Score = (0.35 × yield score + 0.30 × size score + 0.20 × stability score + 0.15 × volume score) × 100, rounded and clamped to 0-100. Each input is first normalised to a 0-1 scale against a fixed cap (yield is capped at 7%, and beta is inverted so lower volatility scores higher). Where the data provider supplies its own rating for a stock, that value is used in place of this calculation.
EXPLAINED IN
Educational content only. It is not personal financial advice.