Why REFS is Special

Serious about ‘panning’ for stock market gold? Then make sure you have the right equipment.

Whether you're a value investor, after growth shares, or a technical analyst, do you know which are the best shares to buy? And when to sell the ones you have?

Can you identify – in ten seconds or less:

• which UK companies are forecast by brokers to show the greatest future earnings growth?
• which shares currently boasts the highest yield?
• which companies are priced most cheaply, relative to brokers' earnings forecasts?
• which companies have the most cash, and which generate the most cash flow?
• which shares have shown the best (and the worst) relative strength compared with the market?
• what a company's management has been saying about its own prospects? Are they becoming more optimistic - or more pessimistic?

Because REFS Online users can – any minute of the day… and night.

Company REFS (Really Essential Financial Statistics) can tell you all this and more, saving you hours of research each month when it comes to evaluating shares.

REFS is the quickest and simplest way to find the shares that match YOUR criteria, by giving you everything you need in one easy-reference source that's bang up-to-date.

No other stock selection tool tells you so much about a UK quoted company’s prospects – on one, easy-to-read page

Here's what Company REFS brings you, all in one complete convenient source:

• the very latest data, updated daily from the London Stock Exchange
• uniform presentation of ALL 1700 + UK stock market companies (excluding investment trusts) – so you can make meaningful comparisons across the entire stock market
• directors' share-dealing transactions over the last six months
• league tables that instantly compare a company's performance within its index and against the market overall
• consensus brokers' forecast changes
• sector statistics comparing each company with all the others in its peer group

Company REFS contains investment facts and figures you won't find together in any other single source. All of them calculated for you from the country's leading database of information on UK equities – the London Stock Exchange.

Only REFS’s market rankings and individual profiles give you
the complete investment picture

The information in Company REFS takes two forms: league tables and individual company profiles.

• The League Tables – there are 24 rankings in all – help you spot trendsetters and anomalies instantly, using the investment criteria which matter most to YOU. So you can uncover value that other investors may have missed.
• Then, turning to the individual Company Profiles, you can zero in on the particular companies which merit further research. REFS’ unique graphical presentation lets you see at a glance how each company ranks, and then you can pick and choose from the gold mine of facts, figures and specially calculated ratios that make up a company entry.

So whether you are interested in cyclicals, asset situations or recovery stocks, REFS is where you will find all the data you need. And in seconds…

Want to see exactly what REFS can do for you? Then why not ‘try before you buy’ with our 10-day trial service. It’s designed to let you test-drive REFS for yourself – with no obligation to continue after that.