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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Investment Strategies / Mechanical Investing
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Author: RAMc ✭  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: ROE Cash LT Debt Screen
Date: 05/28/23 6:54 PM
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Taz, I loaded your screen into P123. The only change I made was to change the Universe to
S&P 1500 CompositeCap (IVV+IJH+IJR) and I backtested holding 15 stocks
For a 5 year backtest I get similar results 21.25% vs SP500 11.19% CAGR
And for a 10 year backtest I also get a nice 18.1% return vs the SP500 11.76
But for a 20 year backtest the advantage was still positive but only 13.0% to 9.8%

Removing your OPMgn%TTM > 25 //Healthy Operating Margin increased the 20yr CAGR to 14.35
Removing EPSExclXorTTM>0 AND EPSExclXorPYQ>0 increased the 20yr CAGR to 14.99
Removing (CashTTM - DbtLTTTM) > 0 increased 20 yr to 15.24%
Changing the FOrderOLD("((CashTTM - DbtLTTTM) / MktCap)", #All, #DESC, #Previous,TRUE) <= 13
To <= 8 gives a CAGR of 17.4%

The 5 year return is not quite as good, a CAGR of 19.2% compared to the 21.25 but overall a longer term
consistant outperformance.

RAM
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