2. So, I chose all the 5 timeliness, and that produced about 1398 stocks
The count at that step sounds about right.
I got 1397, but that’s possibly because one of us is using last week’s data and the other is using next week’s data.
Close enough for government work.
Why so few? Not all of the stocks in the standard “1700 stock” edition have Timeliness ranks.
The average is 1517 over time; it’s a little lower than usual right now.
Stocks are excluded from that ranking if they have too few years of history, or of they are in the midst of a major M&A event, or bankruptcy.
And for that matter, the “1700” edition doesn’t have 1700 stocks.
It’s only 1545 at the moment; I’m not sure why.
It was 1710 last June and has been gradually falling, pretty much steadily. 1663 at the start of the year.
My guess is that they’re short of staff and haven’t yet gotten around to adding replacements for the ones that have disappeared through M&A or delisting.
Jim