Subject: Re: OT: big companies
"I don't know how VL could be that far off. Maybe a transcription error?"

It appears to be because of the wild swing in shareholders' equity at PRU. ... it looks like they are treating some part of the GAAP net income as exceptional and therefore to be excluded.

There are ~800 stocks in the Russell 1000 & 2000 that have a VL timeliness rating. You cannot realistically do that sort of digging into all the potential candidate stocks.
I think you have to decide upon a decent data source and go with it.

I think I'll watch this screen for a while, run a paper portfolio for the next few month, also see how much the picks change from month to month.