Top Movers

The Top Movers tool helps you to identify the companies meeting varying pre-defined performance criteria, such as highest dividend yield, top price risers and companies with the highest amount of director share buying. The companies meeting the criteria are displayed in a Performance Table that can then be manipulated for further analysis.

How To Use

The initial page of the Top Movers tool shows a set of links with company selection criteria, grouped into various categories such as Financials, Price and Director Dealings.

Select the link for the selection criteria that you want to view, such as “Highest Dividend Yield”, to see the companies meeting those criteria in a Performance Table.

The Performance Table can then be used to analyse the selected companies in more detail. Select a data view to see various sets of information (price data, financial information, time and sales, etc.) for the companies. You can also click on any column header to sort the results by that column. See the Performance Tables help guide for more information.

Note: The Broker Rec figures relate to the average figure attained from all the broker ratings. A strong buy is equal to 10. A buy is equal to 7.5. A sell is equal to 5. A strong sell is equal to 0.

Selection Criteria

The Top Movers tool provides a range of selection criteria that can be used to find companies of interest. The selection criteria are grouped into a number of categories – Financials, Price, Company Deals, RiskGrades, Company Size, Volume, Sectors and Miscellaneous.

Financials

These selection criteria enable you to find stocks meeting certain financial criteria:

• Highest dividend yield
• Highest growth (companies with the highest forecast EPS growth)
• Lowest Price/Sales ratio
• Lowest PEG ratio
• Lowest P/E ratio
• Broker Recommendations (companies rated by brokers as a Strong Buy)

Price

Top price rises and falls today, and over 7 days and 30 days. Index price risers and fallers (companies in the FTSE100/250/techMARK)

• Price - 52 week high and low (companies that are hitting new price highs and lows)
• Price – largest and smallest bid-offer spread values
• Price – largest and smallest bid-offer spread percentage

Company Deals

This section highlights companies that have had the largest value of director buying or selling over various time periods:

• 7 day
• 1 month
• 3 months
• 6 months
• 12 months

RiskGrade

This section enables you to find the companies who’s RiskGrade has risen or fallen the most over various time periods:

• 1 day
• 7 days
• 30 days

Company size

This section lists the companies with the largest and smallest market capitalisation (market value).

Volume

This section shows the companies that have had the largest volume of shares traded today.

Sectors

This section lists the sectors that are showing the highest percentage rise and fall.

Miscellaneous

This section contains a range of other company selection criteria:

• The most popular quoted companies
• Companies that have been in the papers recently