Stock Screener and Google Finance

SoulTrader

Hi,

I've been searching stocks lately and playing around with stock screeners such as Google Finance, Yahoo Finance and Reuters. Does anyone know any others that might be better than these? Just curious how people choose a stock / stocks out of a universe of tens of thousands...

Regarding Google Finance, would appreciate if someone could either confirm or reject my thinking that their P/E ratio is calculated incorrectly, for some companies at least. Debenhams for example, one I was just looking at, has an EPS of 7p and a share price of 75.7, implying a P/E of 1,081. According to Google, the P/E is 10.66. Pretty misleading if its wrong. Yahoo Finance quotes a P/E of 1,066.2.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=LON%3ADEB&ei=QSAYVYHbNeqysAeX9YHYDA

Value Hunter

http://finviz.com/screener.ashx

This is one of the better free screeners, but you are correct in saying a lot of the figures are out of date/incorrect

SoulTrader

Figured out the answer to my question about the P/E of Debenhams.

What I hadn't realized before was the distinction between GBP, GBp and GBX.

GBP - Great British Pounds
GBX - Great British Pennies - as used by Google Finance
GBp - Great British Pennies - used by Bloomberg

The Debenhams share price therefore is actually £0.7570, or 75.7 pence. The P/E was correctly represented on Google Finance as being 10.66 as of the weekend.

That means the P/E per Yahoo Finance is grossly incorrect (unless there is something else I have missed). It currently states the P/E is 1,089.44, versus 10.89 (Google) and 10.91 (Bloomberg).

dRNk SAnTA

I find myself using the Morningstar UK equity screener regularly enough:

http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk