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The Long-term Score

A 0–100 number that is the weighted average of a company’s percentile ranks on six pillars — profitability 20%, growth 20%, financial health 15%, valuation 15%, shareholder return 10%, long-term trend 20% — and the thing the Long-term 10 is sorted by. It is a published formula and its output, not a recommendation.

Every eligible company is ranked against the others on each of six pillars, and each rank is expressed as a percentile from 0 to 100. Those six percentiles are then averaged with fixed weights — profitability 20%, growth 20%, financial health 15%, valuation 15%, shareholder return 10%, long-term trend 20% — and because the weights sum to one, the result is itself on a 0–100 scale. That is what makes a score of 83 readable: it says this company sits, on a weighted average across the six pillars, at about the 83rd percentile of the companies it was measured against. A score is not a price target, an expected return, or a probability of anything.

The trend pillar is the one worth explaining, because a long-term score built only from accounts would be a different and worse thing. A company can be cheap, profitable and growing while its shares have been falling for two years, and a list that put it at the top would be describing the accounts while ignoring the tape. So a fifth of the long-term score comes from where the price actually is — above or below its long-run average, how far below its own 12-month high, how it has done against the market — which is why the list reads as a fundamentals-plus-tape ranking rather than a screen of cheap shares.

Two honesty rules govern how a score can appear. A company missing any pillar is not scored with a default in its place: it is ineligible, and the reason is recorded, because a zero would claim the company ranked at the bottom of the field when the truth is that it could not be measured. And the weights are published rather than implied — they are shown on every list page and on /top10/method — so the formula can be argued with. If they are ever changed, the change is stamped as a new method version and old rows are left exactly as they were written, so a past ten is never quietly re-scored under a formula that did not exist when it was chosen.

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Related terms

  • The Short-term Score — A 0–100 weighted average of five technical pillars — trend 25%, momentum 20%, setup 20%, volume and participation 15%, catalysts 20% — describing where a share stands on the tape today. It describes past price behaviour; it does not forecast the next move.
  • Percentile rank — Where one company stands in a field, expressed from 0 to 100 rather than in the metric’s own units — the device that lets a margin, a growth rate and a valuation multiple be averaged into one score without any of them dominating.
  • Rebalance — The scheduled moment when a list’s membership is allowed to change — rebalanced on the first trading day of each month for the Long-term 10, rebalanced every Monday for the Short-term 10. Scores move every night; membership only moves on the calendar.
  • Hysteresis (why a list does not churn) — The rule that a current member keeps its place while its rank stays within 15 even though only 10 are published — a deliberate gap that stops the same two companies swapping places every period on differences too small to mean anything.
  • Equal weight — Treating every holding in a list as the same size, so a company’s influence on the result comes from its own move and not from how large the company is — the basis on which the Top-10 lists are tracked against the market.

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