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Glossary - Materially Weaker

The purpose of this glossary is to provide definitions — and links for further exploration — of topics and terminology that may be somewhat unique to Manifest Investing. We don’t try and include every financial term known to man although a few are included here because they’re at the “core” of what we do and use. If you’re searching for a definition and don’t find it here, we’d encourage you to try Investopedia.com or InvestorWords.com . If you see a word or phrase commonly used at Manifest Investing and you feel that it should be included here, please send your suggestion to manifest@manifestinvesting.com


Materially Weaker: Our weekly updates include an assessment of the impact on long-term trends and we include a short list of “Materially Weaker”. In these cases, during the current update, the adjustments made by Value Line to its longer term forecasts resulted in a large drop (generally 25-30% lower than the previous quarter) in their 3-5 year low price forecast, the metric that we use to flag these threats. For more: https://www.manifestinvesting.com/articles/201309cover

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Legend
Quality Legend:
Blue Excellent with quality greater than 80.
Green Good with quality between 60 and 80.
Neutral Average or below average with quality between 20 and 60.
Red Poor with quality less than 20.
Companies with less than 10 years of history are penalized by 5 points per year.
PAR Legend:
Green PAR is within the target range of MIPAR +5-10%, currently 5.1%-10.1%
Yellow PAR is above the target range of MIPAR +10%, currently 10.1%
PAR Projected Annual Return
MIPAR The Manifest Investing Median PAR of all stocks in the database.
Company Name Legend:
* Not covered by Value Line Standard Edition.
b Uses price-to-book value for valuation purposes.
P/CF Uses price-to-cash flow for valuation.