From a stock price to a testable investment thesis.

The rankings compare market prices with DCF-based fair values, while the Advanced Screener lets a user combine measures such as margin of safety, return on invested capital, free-cash-flow yield, leverage, quality and value-trap risk. The result is a shortlist for investigation, not a list of automatic buys.

This distinction matters because a large apparent discount can come from weak business economics as easily as from an overlooked opportunity. A useful screen reduces the field of companies; it does not replace reading the underlying analysis.

ValueDetect's explainable Quality Score brings profitability, capital efficiency, cash generation, financial strength and stability into a 0–100 view. Alongside it, Value Trap Risk looks for signs such as deterioration, balance-sheet pressure, weak cash conversion and dilution. The two measures answer different questions: how strong is the business, and what might make a low valuation deceptive?

Neither score is a verdict on its own. A company can be high quality but too expensive, or inexpensive because the conditions that once supported its earnings are changing. The point is to make those tensions visible before a valuation is treated as a decision.

A discounted cash-flow model starts with expectations for future operating performance and translates the resulting owner cash flows into a present value. Growth, margins, reinvestment, the discount rate and terminal assumptions all influence the estimate. Changing one assumption can move the answer substantially.

Valuation Studio lets a user adjust those inputs and save bear, base and bull cases. A bear case tests weaker outcomes; a bull case explores stronger execution; a base case expresses a central thesis. Comparing coherent scenarios is more informative than pretending one calculated price is certain.

A saved valuation can be connected to a personal portfolio, where a company is compared with ValueDetect's current fair value or the user's own estimate. A price-crossing alert can call attention to a meaningful level without sending the same notification every day. The workflow also surfaces fundamental changes that may warrant another look.

An alert is an invitation to reassess the business, not an instruction to trade. When financial results, competitive conditions or the investor's assumptions change, the useful next step is to update the thesis rather than rely on an old target price.

ValueDetect focuses on research into U.S.-listed companies. Its estimates depend on available financial data and on assumptions about an uncertain future. Scores, rankings and DCF outputs organize evidence; they cannot guarantee a market outcome or eliminate the risk of permanent loss.

The investor still needs to assess the company's business model, the quality of the data, risks outside the model and their own time horizon. That is why the product is organized as a research process rather than a single buy-or-sell signal.