Google finance released the new interface last week. I did not feel comfortable with it at first sight, but after reading its explaination and spent some time on it, I am feeling more comfortable with it now. One quick thing, those who are interested in financial statements may complain where is the good old financial statement for a particular stock? Again check top left panel (a lot goodies there), click on “financials” you will see the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow. In other words, they did not take away anything, my guess is they try to add new things and present the information better. Another minor feature is: they finally added the opening price of a stock, in the past, they only have stock closing price. This is not revolutionary, but something nice to have. On a related matter, now you can see their monthly stock chart in real fashion. In the past they merely connect the closing price of each day, which is still the case with 3 month (or longer) stock chart.
Dividend stock screener
Since I am talking dividend recently, I am creating this stock screener. Criteria:
market cap: $5 b to 25 b
PE: max 25 (leave min unchanged)
Div yield: 4% to 6%
52 week price change: leave it as is
Return on equity: 10% to 25%
It gave me 20 companies, including Eaton (NYSE: ETN), which I have some.