Question: Do you find it hard to get financial ratio?

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I use paid site for stock search, and preliminary research. Once the stock goes into my monitoring list, I will create a excel for it. The financial ratio, even from paid site, might be misleading. It is not due to errors, but "noises" from one-time entries, non-cash items and etc. Adjustments are needed to catch the "real" picture.

Having said so, I recall one of our buddy, KopiKat, did auto extraction of financial ratio, by script, from free sites. He did mention that he spend just minutes to update his excel sheets. For those interested, you might want to search for his posts on the topic

Hi Cityfarmer, do you mind sharing which paid site you are using? I will like to subscribe to it if I find it better than the ones I am using. Does it cover the HK/US market too? Thanks.

Currently I am using free sources from google finance and Morningstar. It is not that accurate sometimes if there are one-time entries like revaluation gains etc.

I am using Shareinvest.com at the moment. It seems many buddies here using the same. We should charge Shareinvest.com for advertisement fee

Thanks! Will take a look.