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How good is this stock, really?

LensScore grades a company on five things investors care about, each against its own sector: value, growth, profitability, financial health and momentum. Every grade shows the numbers behind it and what they mean, and the score ranks it across the market from 0 to 10.

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Apple Inc.

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      How LensScore works

      Five grades, one score, every number shown

      1. Each company is compared with its own sector. A bank is graded against banks and a chipmaker against chipmakers, because a "normal" P/E or margin is very different from one industry to the next. When a sector has fewer than eight companies in our coverage, the company is compared with everyone.
      2. Five factors, 25 measures. Value (P/E, forward P/E, PEG, price to sales, price to free cash flow, EV/EBITDA, or price to book for banks and property), Growth (revenue and earnings growth over one and three years), Profitability (gross, operating and net margins, return on equity and on invested capital), Financial health (debt to equity, current ratio, interest coverage, volatility) and Momentum (performance against the S&P 500 over 3, 6 and 12 months and distance from the 52-week high).
      3. Grades are percentiles. Each measure is ranked from 0 (worst in the sector) to 100 (best). A factor's grade is the average of its measures: A+ is the top 10%, B is around the 60th percentile, F is the bottom 13%. A loss counts as the most expensive possible P/E.
      4. The LensScore ranks the whole picture across the market. The five factors are blended (Profitability 25%, Value, Growth and Momentum 20% each, Financial health 15%), and the blend is ranked against every company we cover. A LensScore of 8.0 means the company's overall profile beats about 80% of them.
      5. One failing grade caps the score. A failing grade in any factor holds the LensScore at 6.8 or below; two failing grades hold it at 5.0. Weak profits plus a weak balance sheet, or negative shareholders' equity, cap it lower still.
      6. Entry timing is separate. The chart-based timing read (momentum gauges, trend and support zones) tells you whether now looks like a stretched or a pulled-back moment. It never changes the grades, because a great company can be a poor buy for a few weeks, and the reverse.

      Data. Every company's figures come from its own SEC filings (revenue, profit, cash flow, debt, shares), so the comparison is like for like and every number can be checked against the filing. Price-based measures use licensed daily prices. Grades refresh when a company files a new report and as prices update.

      LensScore is a research tool for comparing companies, not a recommendation to buy or sell. Grades describe the past and present; they do not predict returns.