Methodology
Every stock on ChartsGoUp is scored 0 to 10 on six axes, each built from several banded sub-metrics rather than one ratio. This page describes exactly what each axis measures and where the scoring falls short, so a score here is something you can actually check, not a black box.
Built from four signals: the P/E ratio, price-to-book, the PEG ratio, and analyst price-target upside. Each is banded into points rather than compared on a single continuous scale, so a stock only scores well here if several of these line up cheap at once, not because one flattering ratio pulls an average up.
Revenue growth, earnings growth, net profit margin, return on equity and return on assets, each banded on recent year-over-year figures. A high Past score describes a company that has been growing and converting that growth into profit, nothing about its price.
Forward EPS growth against trailing EPS, the consensus analyst recommendation, price-target upside, and quarterly earnings growth momentum. Every input here is an estimate someone else made about the future, so this axis is the most exposed to those estimates simply being wrong.
Debt-to-equity, current ratio, operating margin, quick ratio and gross margin. It says nothing about valuation or growth. A company can score well here while being expensive, slow-growing, or both.
Dividend yield, payout ratio sustainability (a very high payout ratio scores worse, not better), and how consistent the yield has been against its five-year average. A high yield with an unsustainable payout ratio does not score well here.
Beta (price sensitivity to the market), whether revenue and earnings are growing rather than shrinking, debt levels, and market capitalisation, since very large companies are structurally harder to crash 20% in a short period than very small ones.
Overall is a plain equal-weighted average of the six axis scores above, nothing more. It is a summary, not a separate judgement, so two stocks with the same Overall can look completely different underneath it: one might be cheap and risky, the other expensive and defensive. Always check which axes are actually driving a stock's position before treating Overall alone as a verdict.
- Every number here comes from free data sources (Yahoo Finance via yahooquery and yfinance), not audited filings pulled directly from a company. Fields are occasionally missing, delayed, or wrong for a given ticker, especially right after an IPO or a reporting date, and a missing metric simply contributes zero rather than being estimated.
- The scoring bands were set by hand based on what look like reasonable thresholds across large, established companies. They are not sector-adjusted: a capital-intensive industrial company and a software company are held to the same debt and margin bands, even though "healthy" looks structurally different in each.
- These scores describe the recent past and the current consensus estimate of the future. They are not a forecast of where a stock's price will go, and a high score on any axis is not investment advice.