Worst Stock Screener For Small Caps

Today, I decided to browse around for free stock screeners to see what was out there. Typically, I recommend the screeners over at Yahoo Finance and Google Finance. But it’s a big world out there, so I figured there had to be something better offered for free.

And that’s when I visited the worst stocks screener for small cap investors.

MSN Money

The winner is . . . MSN Money.

You see, I was tricked. At first I was excited to see “Small Cap” as an option for the screener. As a side note, Google has the best version as you can type in a figure and Yahoo is poor because the market cap selector jumps from 1 billion to 10 billion. However, MSN Money’s small cap option looked promising.

And then I used it . . .

The results I got back were grossly incomplete. In fact, it apparently cut off all companies with market capitalization over $500 million. What?

Surely, there was an error with the industry I was selecting. Unfortunately, there wasn’t. I selected industry after industry only to be given companies with under $500 million in market capitalization (or no companies at all).

I know there are other stock screeners out there not worth the time of day, but it’s surprising to see such a poorly implemented tool from a major company.

Bottom line: Don’t use MSN Money’s stock screener. It’s not good for small cap investing.