We’ve been working on some more upgrades, and today, we are proud to announce the Piotroski Scores. The Piotroski Score is a set of fundamental tests originally created to determine whether a value stock is a trading at a low price for a reason, or if it is a good value stock to buy. In his research, Joseph Piotroski, the author of this system, found that value stocks with high scores outperformed all value stocks by 7.5% a year.

The Piotroski score for any single stock can be accessed from the stock’s page, just like the stock rating or dividend rating. (example: Google) We also created a page describing the scoring system in detail. As with our stock ratings, the individual scores are available to anyone, but the sortable rankings of stocks are not. Premium members can access the full rankings, while basic members can view those for mega-cap stocks and the Dow.

VectorGrader.com’s Piotroski Score

We’ve added new indicators and replaced the sector rotation page with several new pages focusing on various aspects of sectors and one overview. There are now lots of valuation and momentum charts to visualize the characteristics of the ten major sectors. We have a couple more ideas for the sector pages, but we decided to push out our recent changes. Check it out!

We’ve just made a couple of updates to our world central bank page. The biggest new feature is the charts going back a couple of years for each central bank we track. Just hit the “+” on the left side of a central bank’s row to expand the chart. Head over and check it out!

Our new central bank rate page

Today, we added a major new feature to the individual stock page. While it’s still in beta, the new fundamental charts feature allows you to easily view the history of a stock’s financials going back ten years. We think this is very useful in forming an opinion on a stock based on data.

Not all of the indicators are available to everyone. Many of them are premium members only for now. While we would like to make all the indicators available to everyone, it isn’t economically possible for us to do so right now.

Because this is still in beta, it’s not complete yet. We’ll be adding more functionality and improving over the next couple weeks and months. Just a few of the additions we have planned are an expanded data set, embeddable charts, and an option to export the data.

We hope you like this new feature, and if you have any feedback, please let us know.

If you’ve visited VectorGrader.com within the last couple days, you may have noticed several new features and updates, making our website better and easier to use.

By far, the largest improvement we made recently was on the page for a stock. We’ve added several new features, including a visual representation of our rating, a chart, and several graphics indicating the characteristics of the stock.

Another new feature we added was a box which shows search results as you type a ticker or company name in the form near the upper left corner of the page. Previously, you would have had to know the ticker to bring up the page for a stock you were looking for, but now, you can just start typing the company name.

The last addition to the website was some new REIT and MLP dividend yield charts to the indicators section. We hope these will be of use and will add perspective on more asset classes.

We also made a couple of minor changes with regard to the looks of the website, the most noticeable being the color scheme for the navigation bar. The previous green color was a bit overpowering and drew the eye away from the content of the page.

As always, we appreciate any input, feedback, or ideas for further improvement. If you have any thoughts, please let us know.