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What makes you consider a stock a “good stock”?

finalrange — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:47:19 +0800

Just curious, when you guys analyze a Bursa stock, what do you actually look at?

What makes you say “this is a good company / good stock”?

Good ROE? Growing profit? Low debt? Cheap PE? Good dividend? Strong management?

If you could only pick 3–5 important criteria, what would they be?

Especially interested to see whether different sectors like banks, REITs, tech, plantation, etc. need different criteria.

Self developed site that scores every Bursa stock

finalrange — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:05:39 +0800

Quick recap for anyone who missed my first post. It's a free site (scoreyourstock.com) that gives every Bursa stock a score from 0 to 100, using only the company's own financial numbers: profit, debt, cash flow, dividends, and whether the price looks cheap or expensive for what it earns.

Think of it as a quick health check before you bother reading the annual report, not a buy list.

Thanks to the people who actually clicked around and commented last time, a few of those comments changed the site.

The dividend one mostly. Someone opened Highest Dividend, saw Dayang and MHC at the top, and pointed out Dayang's revenue was dropping and MHC was paying out more than it earns. Fair. So:

- the home dividend tab now shows payout ratio (red when it's over 100%), a 5-year dividend streak, and each pillar score next to the yield
- there's a new dividend page, all stocks yielding 3-15%, sorted by score instead of yield
- one-off special dividends get capped and left out. MHC's yield is 21% right now because of one, so it's off the list

284 stocks yield 3-15% at the moment and 24 of them score under 40. Dayang is on it but its Business Strength is 30, so it sits way down.

Also, if you don't agree with my scoring weights, which someone asked about, you can now set your own: switch measures on/off, change the weights, and every stock gets re-scored your way. Free, no login. Each stock page then shows your score next to mine.

Other new stuff:

- Compare, up to 3 stocks side by side
- AI-related list, 51 Bursa names in the AI chip / data centre chain (chips, equipment, also the construction and power side)
- Shariah badge on every stock, 880 of the 1,119 scored are compliant

Backstory if anyone cares. This started as an Excel file for myself. I scraped the data with Python and had to update the sheet every week, which got old fast. Even sold it on Shopee for a while (78 reviews, about RM820 haha). In July I started turning it into a website with Claude Code, and now a script pulls the data and the site just redeploys.

What I'd like: pick a stock you know well and tell me if the score looks wrong, or which part didn't make sense. Mobile bugs too.

Not buy/sell advice, just backward-looking numbers. Thank you if you read till the last sentence.

Made a free site that scores Bursa stocks 0-100, n

finalrange — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:35:02 +0800

Hi guys, made this myself, not selling anything.

Site: Score Your Stock (scoreyourstock.com). Scores ~1000 Bursa stocks 0-100, based on 5 things: business strength, financial safety, cash & dividends, valuation, risk. Each score comes with a plain-English explanation — built for beginners who get lost reading annual reports and ratios.

Free, no ads, no signup. Educational only, not investment advice — don't buy/sell just based on the score.

Looking for honest feedback, especially:

Anything confusing or badly explained
Any stock you know well where the score looks wrong
What's missing that would actually help you decide

Not here to hard-sell — genuinely want to know if it's useful. If you hold any Bursa stock, check it and tell me if the score matches your own read.