Charles Kirkpatrick - President of Kirkpatrick & Co., Inc., a specialist in technical research. Author of "Beat the Market: Invest by Knowing What Stocks to Buy and What Stocks to Sell". Here follow a selection of stock screening strategies that we have modelled based on the writings of or about Charles Kirkpatrick. These strategies are not endorsed by the author.
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Kirkpatrick’s Value Screen combines quantitative filters for relative price strength and relative reported earnings growth, with a value criterion - using relative price-to-sales percentiles, Kirkpatrick arbitrarily selected only those stocks in the 30th percentile or lower. Despite the success of his Growth Model, Kirkpatrick was concerned about the fact that its performance had occurred during one of the strongest bull markets in history. He wanted to strengthen the system against capital loss to protect against the inevitable market reversal. He believed relative price strength would not be effective during a market downturn and could lead to significant capital losses. For Kirkpatrick, the alternative was to reduce the risk of the portfolio by beginning with a group of stocks with low valuations. Kirkpatrick also looks for growth companies with market capitalizations of at least $500 million and share prices of at least $10. You can read more here. more »
Kirkpatrick’s Bargain Screen combines the best triggers found in his testing of relative value, relative reported earnings growth. Kirkpatrick's testing of relative price-to-sales ratio percentile rankings indicated optimal performance in percentiles greater than 17 but not higher than the 42nd percentile. For relative strength, he found that setting the bar at the 90th percentile resulted in too many passing companies to manage in a portfolio. To reduce the number of passing companies to just 20, Kirkpatrick upped the requirement to only include companies in the 97th percentile or higher. Initial testing of the Bargain Model was promising but Kirkpatrick conceded that several more years of testing were needed before labeling it a successful stock selection methodology. You can read more here. more »
Kirkpatrick’s Growth Screen combines quantitative filters for relative price strength and relative reported earnings growth, and then involves point & figure chart analysis to determine whether the stock is in an upward trend. Kirkpatrick also looks for growth companies with market capitalizations of at least $1 billion and share prices of at least $10. Kirkpatrick uses point & figure charts to help in the buy and sell decision process. He only buys stocks for his Growth Model when they are in an upward trend, as indicated by two higher highs in a three-point reversal point & figure chart. You can read more here. more »
