BG · Benjamin Graham · 1894–1976
Passing Graham's screen
Every company across SageRanks's 22 indices, tested against Graham's hard limits — live, date-stamped, alphabetical. A screen, not a ranking, and not advice.
Benjamin Graham — the father of value investing and Warren Buffett's teacher — insisted on numeric limits a stock had to clear before it was even worth analysing. This page applies his two hard limits to every company SageRanks tracks, across 22 indices, and lists only the ones that clear both right now.
The hard limits
P/B < 1.5Never pay more than 1.5× book value. Above this, the margin of safety disappears — if the business stumbles, there is no cushion.
PEG < 1.0Never pay a premium for growth that may not materialise. Below 1.0, growth comes effectively free relative to current earnings.
Expect this list to cluster in banks, insurers and commodity companies — that is not a bug, it is what a strict value screen does. The screen judges price against fundamentals; it does not judge sector risk, balance-sheet quality beyond book value, or why the market has priced a company low. That part is your job.
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