1. Copyright 2002 ICLUBcentral Inc. – All rights reserved Understanding Screening Using NAIC Stock Prospector

2. Copyright 2002 ICLUBcentral Inc. – All rights reserved What is Screening? Searching a database to find companies with specific characteristics Reducing 11,000+ companies to a manageable number for analysis

3. Copyright 2002 ICLUBcentral Inc. – All rights reserved Screening Steps 1.Set search (investment) objectives 2.Set search (screening) criteria 3.Select items to report 4.Set importance factors (weighting) 5.Sort 6.Viewing & printing the results

4. Copyright 2002 ICLUBcentral Inc. – All rights reserved NAIC Stock Prospector

5. Copyright 2002 ICLUBcentral Inc. – All rights reserved Step 1 - Objective Your investment objective determines your search Investment Objective Search for: Willing to take some risk Growth Unwilling to pay a “premium” Value “Blue-chip” companies Quality Preservation of capital Safety

6. Copyright 2002 ICLUBcentral Inc. – All rights reserved Step 2 - Screening Criteria Main Objective GrowthValue QualitySafety Secondary Objective Support (or confirm) the main objective

7. Copyright 2002 ICLUBcentral Inc. – All rights reserved Beginner Criteria also selects the report

8. Copyright 2002 ICLUBcentral Inc. – All rights reserved Growth Example EPS R2 >.95 EPS Growth > 15% Revenue Growth > 15% Projected Growth > 15% Relative Value < 1

9. Copyright 2002 ICLUBcentral Inc. – All rights reserved Safety Example Current Yield < 3% Dividend Growth > 10% EPS Growth > 10% EPS R2 >.9 Dividend Payout < 60%

10. Copyright 2002 ICLUBcentral Inc. – All rights reserved Step 3 - Which Items? For the Beginner (using the Wizard) 8 pre-defined reports 25 user set reports For the Experienced customize to suit search choose from 8 Groups and 100+ items

11. Copyright 2002 ICLUBcentral Inc. – All rights reserved Beginner Reports both report and criteria are selected

12. Copyright 2002 ICLUBcentral Inc. – All rights reserved Experienced Reports customize reports by using familiar items

13. Copyright 2002 ICLUBcentral Inc. – All rights reserved Step 4 – Weights (What is Important) Assign “importance weights” to individual items Establish relative ranking for selected companies User set from 0 to 5

14. Copyright 2002 ICLUBcentral Inc. – All rights reserved Step 5 - Sort any item in the report

15. Copyright 2002 ICLUBcentral Inc. – All rights reserved Step 6 – Looking at the Results Selected Companies Data Report Historical Data Graph Ranking Report –shows how and why a company was selected –shows how and why it was ranked the way it was

16. Copyright 2002 ICLUBcentral Inc. – All rights reserved Company Report

17. Copyright 2002 ICLUBcentral Inc. – All rights reserved Ranking Report shows how and why a company was selected and how and why it was ranked the way it was

18. Copyright 2002 ICLUBcentral Inc. – All rights reserved Export for Analysis

19. Copyright 2002 ICLUBcentral Inc. – All rights reserved Cautions Data Screening Criteria and Weights Follow up with confirming analysis

20. Copyright 2002 ICLUBcentral Inc. – All rights reserved Updating and Exporting STB Prospector Database Analyst Program NAIC Datafiles

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