Valuation grade
A letter from S to D on every stock page. It says where a stock's price stands against the site's own valuation models, compared with the other stocks the site covers.
- Scale
- S · A · B · C · D, S the best
- Built from
- The site's valuation models, across every covered stock
- Updated
- After each close, with the nightly rebuild
- Shown as
- Valuation grade B · site models · Oct 30
- It is not
- Advice, a price target or a forecast
What the letter means
The Valuation grade compares stocks with each other, not with a fixed bar. Every night the site values each stock it covers with its own models, sets the price against those values, and places the stock among all the others. S is the band where the price sits lowest against what the models put the company at; D is the band where it sits highest.
| Grade | Where the stock sits |
|---|---|
| S | The best band |
| A | Above the middle |
| B | The middle of the field |
| C | Below the middle |
| D | The worst band |
Because the grade is relative, a stock keeps its letter only as long as it keeps its place. A B this month and a B next month can come from different prices, and a stock can move a band while its own price stands still, because the others moved around it.
Reading it beside the model value
The grade is the summary; a stock's Valuation tab is the number. There the price is set against the headline model in one sentence, such as "undervalued by 18% vs model", with every other model beside it and the inputs each one used. Read the letter to compare stocks with each other, and the tab to see why one sits where it does.
The grade takes more than the headline model into account, so the two can point different ways: a stock whose headline model puts it above its price can still grade C when its other models disagree.
When it changes
The grades are recomputed after each close, with the nightly rebuild, and a stock's page shows the date of the close it was graded on. A move can come from three places: the stock's own price, a new filing that changes what its models are worth, or the other stocks moving around it.
A day's grades are recorded once. A later run never rewrites what a stock's grade was on a past day, so the history on a stock's page is the history as it was published.
Not graded
A stock is left ungraded when too few of its models give it a value — a company with negative cash flow and no usable earnings, for example — or when there is no price to set against them. Its page then says "Not graded" in place of a letter.
What the site does not publish
The letter is the whole result. The stock's place in the field, the score behind it and where the bands are drawn are not published anywhere: not on a page, in the API, in the open datasets or through the MCP server.
What it is not
The grade is a statement about prices and models on a given day. It is not advice, not a price target and not a forecast of what the stock will do.