A structured learning path from income basics to multi-factor analysis — with free screener tools at every level. No jargon, no fluff.
When a company earns more money than it needs to run the business, it can return cash to shareholders as a dividend — a regular payment, usually every quarter. Dividend investing means deliberately choosing businesses that do this reliably.
Why start here? Because dividends create a measurable feedback loop. You don't need to guess whether the market will go up — you know exactly what you're being paid to hold each stock. For beginners, that clarity is enormously useful.
Our Dividend Screener focuses on the US market — the deepest and most liquid dividend market in the world. Companies like Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, and Coca-Cola have paid and grown dividends for 50+ consecutive years.
A yield of 12% sounds great — until you realise it's high because the stock price has collapsed. Always check the payout ratio and streak before chasing yield.
Our screener runs nightly across US-listed dividend payers and applies a multi-layer filter to find businesses that are paying reliably, growing their dividends, and financially healthy enough to keep doing so.
Each stock gets a Safety Grade from A to D based on:
Stocks are also tagged with a Verdict: Income Star, Dividend Grower, Watch, or Cautious — so you can immediately understand what kind of dividend story each stock represents.
Not sure what each field means on a Dividend Screener card? Read the full Dividend Guide →
You don't need dozens of stocks to build a reliable income portfolio. A focused, diversified set of 10–15 quality dividend payers across different sectors is a strong starting point.
Use the Income Hub to estimate monthly income from your selected stocks before you buy anything.
No single metric reliably predicts stock performance. A cheap stock is cheap for a reason. A stock with strong momentum might be overextended. Multi-factor investing combines several independent signals so that each one compensates for the weaknesses of the others.
The most powerful combinations in academic research — and the ones our Combined Screener uses — blend:
A stock with strong momentum + reasonable value + improving fundamentals is a far stronger setup than any of those three factors alone.
Our Combined Screener assigns each stock a conviction tier based on how many positive factors align. The more factors that agree, the higher the conviction:
EXTENDED stocks are often ones that missed last quarter — they may be worth tracking for a better entry. The screener runs nightly, so conviction tiers update as price and fundamentals change.
Our screener aggregates these into a single Technical Score so you don't need to read each chart manually.
Screener output is a starting point, not a buy signal. Here's a simple 3-step process for evaluating any Combined Screener hit:
Screener outputs are informational only. They tell you which stocks pass a set of quantitative rules — not whether any stock is right for your situation. Always do your own research before investing.
Great businesses share a small set of structural advantages that allow them to earn above-average returns on capital, year after year:
Our US Value and US Tech screeners encode each of these into quantitative checks — so the stocks that pass have already cleared a high quality bar before you even look at valuation.
Value investing is the practice of buying businesses for less than they are worth. The core valuation multiples our Value Screener uses:
A low P/E can mean the stock is cheap or the business is in trouble. Our screener pairs valuation metrics with earnings quality checks to filter out value traps — companies that look cheap but are cheap for a reason.
The US Tech Screener focuses on businesses where growth justifies a premium. But not all growth is equal. Our screener distinguishes quality growth from speculative hope:
When a high-growth business hits all five of these, the screener flags it as a PRIME conviction pick — the signal that institutions and sophisticated investors are already acting on the same fundamental story.
Our screeners run across the Russell 1000 — the 1,000 largest US companies by market cap. This universe gives us large, liquid businesses with reliable data, analyst coverage, and institutional interest. We deliberately exclude micro-caps where data is noisy and liquidity is thin.
Every quarter, companies report earnings. The market reacts not to the raw numbers, but to the surprise — whether results beat or missed expectations. Key things to track:
Our screener card's Analyst tab shows the current consensus — Buy/Hold/Sell ratings and the 12-month price target — updated in near real-time from financial data providers.
Cards on our screener flag stocks with earnings due within 30 days. This is important — holding through earnings introduces binary risk (gap up or gap down). Factor this into your position sizing.
Educational content only. All content on this page is for informational and educational purposes. FinWealthytech screener outputs are generated by quantitative rules applied to publicly available financial data — they are not personalised financial advice, investment recommendations, or solicitations to buy or sell any security. Past performance of any screening methodology does not guarantee future results. Always conduct your own research and consider seeking professional financial advice before making investment decisions.