InvestingPro offers access to over 100,000 stocks listed on exchanges worldwide, providing comprehensive market coverage for investors and traders. While this extensive database is a powerful resource, it can sometimes feel overwhelming when you're just getting started with the stock screener. This article will guide you through various filtering options to help you narrow down results to specific regions or countries, making your screening experience more efficient and tailored to your needs.
Regional Filtering Options
Restricting Results to a Trading Region
One of the quickest ways to filter stocks is by using the "Trading Region" bar prominently displayed in the InvestingPro interface. This feature allows you to instantly focus on stocks from specific global regions that interest you most.
As shown in the interface image, the Trading Region filter is easily accessible in the top navigation bar, marked with a dropdown arrow for quick selection. By clicking on this filter, you can select one or multiple regions where you want to focus your stock analysis, instantly removing thousands of irrelevant listings from your view.
This simple yet powerful filtering option helps streamline your research process by ensuring you only see stocks from markets you're actively monitoring or interested in exploring.
Restricting Results to a Trading Country
For more granular control, InvestingPro allows you to explicitly set the trading region using the dedicated "Trading Region" filter. This option lets you focus on specific countries where stocks are traded rather than broader geographical regions.
This approach is particularly useful when you're interested in market trends within specific national economies or when researching stocks that are subject to particular regulatory environments. By focusing on individual trading countries, you can develop more targeted investment research strategies based on local market conditions.
Restricting Results to the Operating Country
Sometimes your interest might be less about where a stock is traded and more about where a company conducts its business operations. For these situations, InvestingPro offers the "Operating Country" filter.
This filter allows you to identify companies that have significant business activities in specific countries, regardless of where their stocks are listed. This feature is especially valuable for investors looking to gain exposure to particular economies or to understand how geopolitical and economic factors in specific countries might affect a company's performance.
Additional Filtering Capabilities
Restricting Results to a Company Type
The InvestingPro platform recognizes that investors often have preferences for particular types of securities. Using the "Entity Type" filter, you can limit your results to conventional companies while excluding other security types such as REITs and ETFs.
This filtering option helps you maintain a focused view on the specific types of investment vehicles that align with your investment strategy, saving you time by eliminating securities that don't match your criteria.
Restricting Results to a Stock Exchange
For users interested in stocks listed on specific exchanges, InvestingPro provides the "Stock Exchange" filter. This option allows you to narrow your search to securities trading on particular exchanges worldwide.
InvestingPro maintains a comprehensive list of stock exchanges that you can easily reference to select the specific markets you wish to include in your screening results. This targeted approach is especially useful for investors focusing on markets with specific trading hours, regulations, or liquidity characteristics.
Removing Duplicate or Secondary Listings
Many companies list their stocks on multiple exchanges globally, which can result in the same company appearing multiple times in your search results. To streamline your view and avoid confusion, InvestingPro offers the "Primary Trading Item Flag" filter.
By setting this filter to TRUE, you ensure that only the primary stock listing of each company appears in your results. This eliminates duplicate entries and provides a cleaner, more manageable list of potential investments to analyze
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