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How to use the screener to find and understand structural patterns in company data — without prediction, without advice, just structural observation.
What Screener Guide Articles Cover
The screener identifies structural conditions by combining multiple observations. A single observation — like a high payout ratio — is a measurement. A diagnostic — like "dividend at risk" — is a structural observation that combines payout ratio with cash flow coverage, debt levels, and earnings trends to identify a specific condition. These articles explain what each diagnostic looks for, how the observations combine, and what the result means structurally.
Each guide covers one diagnostic pattern or a cluster of related patterns. It explains the surface appearance (what an investor sees in the data), the structural question (what the diagnostic is really asking), and the boundary (what the diagnostic cannot tell you). The screener observes conditions. It does not predict outcomes or recommend actions.
How to Read These Guides
Each guide is self-contained — you can read any guide independently. But the guides are also connected: a company that triggers one diagnostic often triggers related ones, because structural conditions cluster. The guides explain these relationships so you can move from a single observation to a broader structural picture. Start with whichever diagnostic is relevant to what you are looking at, and follow the connections from there.