What has changed in the latest Stock Doctor release? - March 2019

The enhancements in this release are part of our commitment to constantly refine our methodology through rigorous research and ongoing development, all designed to support your long-term investment success.:

Changes to Golden Rules 1, 2 and 3:

• New criteria for Star Growth and Star Income Stocks.
• Only relevant criteria will now be displayed under Golden Rules 2 and 3 (Previously we greyed out criteria not relevant to model. **All criteria can still be accessed from our new Financial Metrics screen.) 
• Introduced the L Score (Dr Merv Lincoln Health Model) also known as Financial Health. 
• Golden Rule 2 formerly Management Assesment, is now named Past Financial Performance.
• Golden Rule 3 formerly Forecast, is now named Outlook and Active Risks.
• Removed Lincoln forecasts from Golden Rule 3, to more accurately reflect our qualitative assessment on the company's Outlook and Active Risks.
• Incorporated tick and cross symbols in headers for Golden Rules 1, 2 and 3 denoting whether a company meets or fails growth and/or income criteria.
• Added the ability to scroll back through historical financials under Golden Rule 2.
• New icon under Golden Rule 3 to indicate number of research houses contributing to consensus forecasts figures.

Changes to Comments

• Improved Comments section, bringing together Strategic Comments (Strategic), Analyst Comments (Key Events) and Active Risks (Risks) into one central location.

Changes to Golden Rules 4, 5 and 6:

• Share Price Sentiment has been promoted to Golden Rule 4
• Added Percentage Shorted to chart.
• Added Quick access buttons to Lincoln's SDMAX and SD30TSR technical indicators.
• Golden Rule 5 is now named Share Price Value

Changes to Golden Rules 7, 8 and 9:

• Added Direct link to latest Annual Report
• Added Executive Leaders Remuneration
• Added Executive Leaders Holdings and Changes in Holdings

New Earnings Breakdown Section:

• Added Earnings breakdown by Division and Region

New Peer Comparison Section:

• Added Peer comparison table with ability to save to watchlist.

Changes to Financial Statements

• Company Summary screen is now the primary tab and renamed to Financial Metrics
• ROA/ROE calculations have changed

Changes to Mobile site

• Changes to user interface

Changes to Alerts

• Combined Strategic, Analyst and Risk Comment Changes into a single alert (Notification Alerts > Updated analyst comments) .

Changes to Stock Filter

• Updated Criteria to Tim's Income / Growth Stocks with Potential Filters
• Additional criteria added to Stock Filter/Watchlists (See full list of criteria).