StockDiagnostics.com OPS Rankings^TM

Summary

StockDiagnostics.com monitors a public company's Operational-cashflow Per Share ("OPS") and assigns it an "OPS Ranking." "OPS Rankings" are based on computer-generated, precise and objective calculations. Rankings are upgraded with each company's quarterly financial report. Rankings are scaled 1 through 8, with number one (1), being the highest ranking and number eight (8), the lowest. A "Rankings Suspended" status is given for all companies diagnosed with, "The EPS Syndrome" during the most recent four quarters.

How are OPS RankingsTM Determined?

"OPS" (Operational- cashflow Per Share) Rankings fall into one of eight distinctive categories. The companies with Positive OPS (Operational-cashflow Per Share) for the last four "composite" quarters were separated from those with "Negative" OPS (Operational-cashflow Per Share). "The Positive and Negative groups were each divided into four "natural" subdivisions, creating a total of eight, "composite four-quarter" ranking categories.

Positive OPS Rankings: 1- 4 (OPS positive previous 12 mos)
1. FOUR quarters Positive "OPS"
2. THREE quarters of Positive "OPS," ONE quarter negative
3. TWO quarters of Positive "OPS," TWO quarters negative
4. ONE quarter of Positive "OPS," THREE quarters negative

Negative OPS Rankings: 5-8 (OPS negative previous 12 mos)

5. ONE quarter of Negative "OPS," THREE quarters Positive
6. TWO quarters of Negative "OPS," TWO quarters Positive
7. THREE quarters of Negative "OPS," ONE quarter of Positive
8. FOUR quarters of Negative "OPS"