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To: David who wrote (59887)	10/8/2017 10:17:20 PM
From: Mario :-)	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 78702

>> With regards to your screen, I do like that the screen attempts to show that retained earnings are actually being applied to shareholder equity.<< First, thank you for the reply. I worried my question may be too off topic for value investing forum. OK, great about the screen. I was just curious. I'm now in a hunt for criteria to try to build some screen that would return potential value candidates that could be suitable for further research. I'm doing my first baby steps in trying to learn both, basic of value investing and python programming with the plan to maybe one day combine them together to help me pull from the internet financial data that would help me find undervalued candidates. While I have this screen/program already working, it was with someone's help and program (scrapping data part) is still partial mystery to me. Also I need to figure out how to use some other site than Yahoo. >>An investing concept I have for oil producers is the annualized cash flow to debt ratio should be below 2<< "Annualized cash flow" - this is probably something you need to adjust manually, correct? Or is it simply year over year number from cash flow statements? If you have some simple formula that only uses numbers from financial statements without the need for manually adjusting some numbers, and if it is not a secret, send me criteria and I can try (over long time, my old brain is slow learner) to get customized screen working. Now would probably be a good time to start looking for a value in oil sector, no doubt. p.s. I hear you about cash flow to debt ratio. I had MHR in my portfolio a while ago.... ouch! Investing world can now float in a huge debt all it wants. But I personally am not and so will not my portfolio holdings.