How to use Sector Strips

The Sector Strip tool allows you to see how any company is performing in relation to its individual sector, with the added benefit of allowing you to enter two data plots at once. If you want to find which company has the highest market cap and rise in share over the last month, which shares have the best PEG and P/E and much more, the Sector Strips provide an easy-to-use way of highlighting the relevant market information.

How to Use

The first step is to select a data set, eg a sector. Choose 'Sector Averages' to see all sectors plotted against one another.

Then select the data plot categories that you want to use (e.g. Share Performance, Growth Ratios, Director Deals, etc).

Next select the specific data point that you want to see in the Market Map for each plot (e.g. if you have already selected Growth Ratios as your data type you can now choose from EPS Growth, Dividend Growth, Turnover Growth, etc).

Finally, choose whether to sort the results by ticker, colour or size value.

The resulting Sector Strip will show the information based on the options you selected in the control panel. A colour key is shown along the top of the Sector Strip. The colours range from a deep red through to a deep blue. The deeper the blue, the better the data point. The deeper the red, the worse the data point.

In parallel, the larger the square, the better the data point. The smaller the square, the worse the data point.

The company’s ticker, which is found within each strip, links you to the company research page. Also, if you hold your mouse over a ticker without clicking, the company name and data values will be displayed.

Data available

There are dozens of data points available to view as a Sector Strip, all grouped according to type. The following key data types are available:

Growth Ratios
Income Ratios
Valuation Ratios
Share Performance
Technical Analysis
Management Effectiveness
Profitability
Profit/Loss Account
Balance Sheet
Company Basics
Director Deals
Broker Recommendation

So, to find EPS Growth, Turnover Growth, Dividend Growth, etc you would look in the Growth Ratios. To find Price Rise/Fall, Trade Value, Beta, etc you would look in Share Performance. For buy and sell signals, you would look in Technical Analysis, and so on.