Anyone else frustrated that most stock screeners assume you already know exactly which filters to set?
Every time I want to find dividend stocks, I end up spending 20 minutes translating a simple idea into a filter grid. "Safe dividend I can hold long-term" becomes — what exactly? Yield above 3%? Payout ratio under 60%? Debt-to-equity under 0.5? You have to pre-answer all of that before you can even start.
And the frustrating part is that's not how most of us think about investing. We think in sentences, not thresholds.
I've been working on a tool that lets you just describe what you want:
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It converts that into the actual filters, shows you every parameter it applied, and flags anything ambiguous so you're not trusting a black box. If it had to make a judgment call on "safe payout," it tells you exactly how it interpreted that.
Been using it for my own dividend research for a while. Happy to share the link for anyone who wants to try it — 5 free queries, no signup needed.
Would love to hear how other people here approach screening. Do you have a go-to set of filters you always start with?