Every stock scored. Every setup planned.
The JSE and New York in one scanner: technicals (breakouts and retests of major support), analyst sentiment and every key ratio judged against its own sector, rolled into one LRC score and an LRC Stock Scanner rating: BUY, HOLD or SELL. Click any company for its one-page analyst summary.
Today's trade setups from the LRC Stock Scanner. Each plan shows the entry trigger, the downside to the stop (below the support or breakout level) and the upside to two targets in %. Position size is your own decision. Results inside 14 days are flagged as event risk.
Long setups — breakouts & retests
Short setups — breakdowns & failed retests
The LRC Investment track (long-only, 5–10 years) — the quality screen from our workbook: size, ROE, ROA, operating margin, low debt, liquidity, a sensible forward P/E and P/FCF, and multi-year growth in EPS and revenue. Grade A = 8+ of 10 checks passed. Margin of safety compares today's price with the LRC target (covered names) or the model fair value.
Each sector is scored from −10 to +10: the average LRC score of its companies, its sector ETF's technical score and its breadth (the share of names on BUY vs SELL). Sector rotation in one view.
Valuation (7)
Forward P/E, trailing P/E, PEG, price/sales, price/book, price/free cash flow, EV/EBITDA. +1 when 20%+ cheaper than the sector median (PEG below 1); −1 when 25%+ dearer, loss-making or negative cash flow (PEG above 2).
Growth (6)
Revenue and EPS growth for the latest quarter, analyst EPS growth this year and next, and 3-year revenue and EPS growth a year. +1 for strong growth (15–20%+, 10%+ over 3 years); −1 when shrinking.
Profitability (5)
Gross, operating and net margin, return on equity (+1 above 20%, −1 below 8%) and return on assets (+1 above 8%, −1 below 2%). Margins are judged against the sector.
Financial health (5)
Debt/equity (+1 below 0.5, −1 above 1.5), current ratio, quick ratio, free-cash-flow margin and net cash vs market cap. Banks, insurers and property funds skip the balance-sheet ratios.
Income (2)
Dividend yield (+1 above 3% and above the sector; −1 after a dividend cut) and payout ratio (+1 between 20% and 70%; −1 above 100%).
Sentiment (6)
Analyst consensus, upside to the analysts' median target, upgrades minus downgrades, short interest, insider and institutional ownership.
Technical (6)
Trend vs the 50/200-day averages (±2), 6-month momentum vs the market (±2), setup (±2: Breakout or Retest of major support vs Breakdown or Failed retest), stretch/RSI, volume and beta.
Trading vs Investment
Trading scanner (3–12 months, 6-month target): technical 35%, growth 20%, sentiment 20%, valuation 10%, profitability 10%, financial health 5%. Investment scanner (5–10 years): valuation 25%, profitability 25%, financial health 20%, growth 20%, income 10%. Bands: 75+ STRONG BUY, 60–74 BUY, 40–59 HOLD, 25–39 SELL, below 25 STRONG SELL. Missing data is left out, never counted against a company.
LRC Analyst Target & track record
6-month target: the analyst's own where we have a Work-sheet; otherwise 60% analyst consensus + 40% LRC valuation models, within 20% of the consensus. Every rating is measured on the track record page.
UPDATES The scanner runs automatically every trading day after the New York close (about 06:30 South African time), using Yahoo Finance prices, fundamentals and analyst data. The JSE universe is our list of large and mid caps; New York covers the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100.