Combining The PPT’s Features with Events

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Taking a learning lesson from iBC Bloggers The Fly and chessNwine I decided to create a screen of companies with the keyword cement in their business description.  In The Fly’s post I wanted to highlight the following paragraph as I believe it serves for good future reference in the case of any potential market moving event, in this case Hurricane Sandy:

Many moons ago, I created a “Hurricane Watchlist” inside The PPT. Whenever an event moves a specific sector, I like to create a watchlist and save it for future reference. Think of it as a stock market diary of sorts, a reminder to buy certain stocks under specific conditions, like hurricanes, terrorist attacks, war etc.

Also in The PPT Keyword Search to Develop a Thesis” href=”http://ibankcoin.com/chessnwine/2012/10/29/using-the-ppt-keyword-search-to-develop-a-thesis/” target=”_blank”>@chessNwine ‘s post he described a feature inside of The PPT that I never used but find it to be beneficial, especially in cases like that noted above.  His post is more for members of The PPT but this can be useful altogether if you are familiar with data mining or know of other sites in where you can do keyword searches within business descriptions and then filtering them by performance.  FINVIZ comes to mind but I have not tried it within FINVIZ.

With this information I went inside of The PPT this morning to combine these two informative posts.  I went to the “ALL INDUSTRIES” tab and sorted by breadth and found the Cement Industry to listed as having 100% breadth.  This stood out to me as there will be rebuilding efforts in the wake of Hurricane Sandy  I then sorted by “Hybrid Change – Daily” and the Cement Industry was the 3rd ranked industry.  With this I then went to the “COMPANY SEARCH” tab and put “cement” in parenthesis (for exact match).  This returned 41 companies with cement in their business description.  You can then use these returned results in a screen, a feature just found above the returned results:

I created a screen within The PPT with the results and some basic sorting features.  Feel free to click on the link below and modify the results to your liking.

Companies with “cement” in their business description

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