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title: Tools and screeners
canonical: https://sweetvaluelab.com/manual/tools-and-screeners
updated: 2026-11-01
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# Tools and screeners

Calculators that take your own inputs, and screeners and lists that sort the covered stocks. Nothing you type into a calculator is stored.

## Calculators

| Tool | What it answers |
|---|---|
| [DCF calculator](https://sweetvaluelab.com/tools/dcf) | What a business is worth on your own assumptions for cash flow, growth and the discount rate. It opens on any covered stock with its own free cash flow history filled in |
| [Reverse DCF](https://sweetvaluelab.com/tools/reverse-dcf) | The growth the current price assumes, at the same discount rate the site's valuations use |
| [Portfolio backtest](https://sweetvaluelab.com/tools/portfolio-backtest) | How a basket of stocks and funds would have done, dividends included, against a comparison line |
| [FIRE calculator](https://sweetvaluelab.com/tools/fire-calculator) | When savings could cover your spending, on your own figures |

### The backtest

The backtest sets your basket against one comparison line — the S&P 500 by default, any ticker, or none — and gives the comparison the same money on the same days: the opening amount and every monthly contribution. Rebalancing is a switch. With contributions, the basket's own return is time-weighted and yours is money-weighted, so the two answer different questions. The page's address holds the whole run, so a link opens the same result. Six ready-made runs are linked under the form.

### What is kept

Nothing you type into a calculator is stored with your name, tickers or amounts. A backtest records only that a run happened and its shape (how many holdings, how many years); the FIRE calculator runs entirely in your browser and sends nothing. The [privacy page](https://sweetvaluelab.com/privacy) has the details.

## Screeners and lists

| Page | What it sorts |
|---|---|
| [All stocks](https://sweetvaluelab.com/stocks) | Every covered stock, filterable by sector, with its Valuation and Quant grades |
| [Stock lists](https://sweetvaluelab.com/lists) | Ten ranked lists: largest companies, highest dividend yield, highest free cash flow yield, lowest P/E, near 52-week highs and lows, best and worst this year, insider buying, dividend growth streaks |
| [Companies A–Z](https://sweetvaluelab.com/companies) | Every covered company by the first letter of its ticker |
| [Compare stocks](https://sweetvaluelab.com/tools/compare-stocks) | Two to five stocks side by side on the same figures |
| [Bank stocks](https://sweetvaluelab.com/tools/bank-stocks) | Banks on tangible book, the return on it, and capital |
| [REIT stocks](https://sweetvaluelab.com/tools/reit-stocks) | REITs on funds from operations, price to FFO and the yield spread |
| [Software stocks](https://sweetvaluelab.com/tools/software-stocks) | Software companies on growth, margins, the Rule of 40 and stock-based pay |
| [Restaurant stocks](https://sweetvaluelab.com/tools/restaurant-stocks) | An index of ten restaurant companies and each one's figures |

The lists and screeners rank by the figure each one names, never by a grade, and show each stock's two grades beside it. Ranking a stock high on a list is a statement about that figure, not a call on the stock.

## Related

- [The valuation models, one by one](https://sweetvaluelab.com/manual/valuation-models)
- [All tools](https://sweetvaluelab.com/tools)
- [Stock lists](https://sweetvaluelab.com/lists)

## Changes to this page

- 2026-11-01: First version.