sagenoodle.Screener

For investors who look closer

Find the value
hiding in
plain sight.

A low price is just the beginning. Uncover overlooked stocks through their assets, earnings, and net cash — and see the numbers that make the case.

7 named screens. Every test visible. Your judgment.

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The price is only half the story
Inside a value screenExample data

Graham NCAV

46%

below net current asset value

Market cap
$54M
Net current assets
$100M
Then check the rulesValue / threshold
  • NCAV / market cap1.85×≥ 1.52×
  • Current ratio3.10≥ 1.50
  • Debt / equity0.08< 0.25
  • Share dilution+6.2%≤ 5.0%

Cheap on assets. But who got the new shares?

Near miss kept · dilution exceeds the limit by 1.2 points.

Now see what your ticker reveals

Illustrative numbers. Real screening logic. Your call.

7
Named screens
no proprietary blends
100%
Rules shown
with the value tested
Near misses
Kept, not dropped
and what they failed by
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The problem

A screen you cannot inspect is someone else's opinion.

A statistical screen is the beginning of the work, not the end. So the output is built to be argued with: what passed, what nearly passed, what the data says about why it is cheap, and what you still have to read the filings to find out.

  • Opacity

    Scores you cannot argue with

    A single composite number tells you nothing about which test a company failed, or by how much.

    Every rule comes back with the value it was tested against, pass or fail.

  • Rigidity

    Thresholds set by someone else

    A screen with fixed cut-offs returns whatever its author thought was cheap in some other decade.

    Every threshold is tunable, with hints for what would admit more names.

  • Loss

    The near misses vanish

    The company that failed one rule by a hair is usually more interesting than the ones that passed.

    Near misses are listed with exactly what they failed and by how much.

The product

A screener that shows its working

Nothing between the raw fundamentals and your judgement is hidden. Change a threshold and the same run tells you what it would have admitted.

  1. 01Every rule shown with its actual value, pass or fail — never a black-box score
  2. 02Near misses listed with what they failed and by how much
  3. 03Every threshold tunable, with hints for what would admit more names
  4. 04Risk flags and special situations surfaced from the numbers

The output

One credit buys a scan you can take apart.

Not a list of tickers. The universe it tested, the discount on every match, and the option payoff if the thesis works — all from the same run.

The funnel

What survived the rules

Every scan reports what it looked at, not just what it liked. The near misses stay on the page.

  • Universe scanned1,842
  • Passed every rule37
  • Near misses kept61

Example figures

The gap

Discount to the value anchor

Each match measured against the screen's own anchor — NCAV, enterprise value or the multiple — signed, so the ones trading through it are visible too.

  • ADSY+45.7%
  • TRVN+31.2%
  • HMTL+18.4%
  • GRPO+6.9%
  • VNCE-12.3%

Example figures

The option

Payoff if the target is reached

The LEAP screens price the same thesis in the option chain: strike, premium, breakeven, and the return if the engine's price target lands by expiry.

breakeven 23.40target 34.00

Example contract · a long call can lose the whole premium

Why we are different

Most screeners hand you an answer. This one hands you the working.

Most screeners
This screener
A composite score you cannot take apart
Every rule with the value it was tested against, pass or fail
Cut-offs fixed by whoever wrote the screen
Every threshold tunable, with hints for what would admit more names
Fails are dropped from the output
Near misses kept, with what they failed and by how much
Equities and options in separate products
Two LEAP strategies filtered on the same fundamentals as the screens
Results you cannot get back to
Every run and analyst note saved to your account, re-openable

The screens

Every screen a deep value investor needs, in one terminal.

Each is a named rule set, not a proprietary blend. You can see every rule it applies and change every number it applies.

Graham net-nets

NCAV

Net current asset value is current assets minus every liability. When it exceeds the market cap, the market is handing you the working capital and charging nothing for the business attached to it. The liquidity and leverage rules exist so that discount survives long enough to close.

4 rulesRead the rules
Priced below its own cash

Negative EV

Enterprise value is market cap plus debt minus cash. Below zero, the cash net of debt exceeds what the shares cost — you are paid to take the operating company. The price/sales and liquidity rules are there to make sure there is a business attached and that the cash is genuinely available.

4 rulesRead the rules
What a buyer pays

Acquirer's Multiple

EV/EBITDA is what an acquirer of the entire business pays for its operating earnings. It is used instead of P/E because it is indifferent to how the company is financed — debt and cash are already in the numerator. The screen adds conservative leverage and a share count that is not growing.

3 rulesRead the rules
Cheap, profitable, paid to wait

Simple Way

Profitable, cheap on earnings and on book, funded mostly by equity rather than creditors, and yielding above the market. The dividend is the point: a slow re-rating is far easier to sit through when the position pays you for the wait.

5 rulesRead the rules
Every test at once

Core Deep Value

The combined gate: cheap on NCAV, book, sales, EBITDA and EBIT simultaneously, generating real operating and free cash flow, unlevered, not diluting, with gross margin stable or improving — and with at least one catalyst the numbers can actually see. Deliberately strict. The near-miss list is usually where the interesting names are.

14 rulesRead the rules
Leverage the value thesis

LEAP (Value)

The fundamental gate before any option is priced: far enough below a conservative fair value that a long call has room to work, profitable, unlevered and liquid enough to still be here at expiry. Only names that clear this gate have their chains pulled and their contracts scored.

5 rulesRead the rules
The opposite thesis

LEAP (Growth)

Not a cheap balance sheet reverting to book, but a business growing fast enough — on trailing and forward revenue, on forward EPS, at a gross margin that shows pricing power — to reprice the stock before the call expires, bought at a growth-adjusted valuation that does not already assume it.

10 rulesRead the rules

How it works

From a universe to a written thesis, in three steps

  1. Choose a screen and a universe

    Pick one of the rule sets, bound the universe by market cap and average volume, and exclude the sectors or countries you will not own. One credit runs one scan.

    ncav · net-net · leaps

  2. Read the passes and the near misses

    Every rule comes back with the value it was tested against. Companies that missed by one or two rules are listed with exactly what they failed.

    rules · values · flags

  3. Write the note, keep the run

    Generate an analyst note built only from that scan's output — what carries the thesis, what contradicts it, what would falsify it.

    note · export · saved

Find my next idea

One credit runs one scan. Credits never expire.

Who it's for

Built for investors who read the numbers themselves.

Deep value

Net-net hunters

Run Graham's rule set over the whole market and get the liquidity and leverage tests alongside the discount.

Systematic

Basket investors

Screens that work statistically rather than name by name, with the universe bounds and exclusions you actually trade.

Options

LEAP investors

Two long-dated option strategies filtered on the same fundamentals as the equity screens, not on chain data alone.

Research

Analysts who read filings

The screen is the beginning of the work. The output is built to be argued with before you open a 10-K.

Pricing

One credit, one scan.

Credits never expire. Reading results is always free.

Analyst

$19/mo

60 scans a month

For one person screening a few times a week.

For daily research

Professional

$49/mo

250 scans a month

Daily screening across strategies and universes.

Desk

$149/mo

1,000 scans a month

Large universes, run every day, by a small team.

Full pricing and one-off credits

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