Stock Screener Metrics

Before using a stock screener, you should think about what financial metrics to scan and compare. Depending on the stock screener you use, you either have one that focuses more on investing with fundamental analysis metrics, or short-term trading with technical analysis metrics.

Below you find the most important metrics. I’ve also prepared a little cheat sheet that helps you identify the most popular financial metrics.

Popularity Score

The more people use a financial metric, the more relevant the metric becomes. Think about it this way: if there is no trading system, no institutional buying, or attention from retail traders at certain price levels of a stock, then there is simply no support or resistance level that really matters.

So let’s approach this from a unique perspective. I’ve checked the number of times users search for one of the mentioned financial metrics per month using Google search in the United States. Here are the results:

Financial Metric	Searches per Month	Type
Current Ratio	21.900	Fundamental Analysis
Debt-to-Equity (D/E) Ratio	20.700	Fundamental Analysis
Dividend Payout Ratio	8.100	Fundamental Analysis
Dividend Yield	13.200	Fundamental Analysis
Earnings Per Share (EPS)	7.900	Fundamental Analysis
Free Cash Flow (FCF)	10.800	Fundamental Analysis
Gross/Operating Profit Margin	9.000	Fundamental Analysis
Market Capitalization	8.200	Fundamental Analysis
Net Profit Margin	9.000	Fundamental Analysis
PEG Ratio (Price/Earnings to Growth)	6.800	Fundamental Analysis
Price-to-Book (P/B) Ratio	3.900	Fundamental Analysis
Price-to-Earnings (P/E) Ratio	35.100	Fundamental Analysis
Price-to-Sales (P/S) Ratio	2.900	Fundamental Analysis
Return on Equity (ROE)	9.300	Fundamental Analysis
Average Directional Index (ADX)	7.600	Technical Analysis
Average True Range (ATR)	1.000	Technical Analysis
Bollinger Bands (BB)	8.700	Technical Analysis
Fibonacci Retracement	5.100	Technical Analysis
Moving Averages (SMA/EMA)	5.900	Technical Analysis
Relative Strength Index (RSI)	73.800	Technical Analysis
Moving Average Convergence Divergence   (MACD)	10.300	Technical Analysis
Stochastic Momentum Index (SMI)	24.300	Technical Analysis
Stock Volume	1.200	Technical Analysis
Volume Weighted Average Price	9.100	Technical Analysis

The data is based on April 2025. As you can see, you may want to consider using the top 5 metrics like the current ratio, debt-to-equity ratio, dividend yield, price-to-earnings ratio, relative strength index and stochastic momentum index and prioritize those over metrics with lower search demand like stock volume and the average true range.