Screener

Screening completeness is not a footnote. Where financial ratios pass but business activity has not been verified, the verdict reads NOT DETERMINED — never COMPLIANT. Financial ratios pass, but business activity has not been verified. HTR therefore does not assign a final compliance classification.

For equities the methodology count is a financial-ratio result — debt, receivables and interest income. They do not screen what the business does, so a company can pass every one of them and still be non-compliant on its activity. Rows where that happens are marked †.

The disagreement runs the other way too. Where the verdict is COMPLIANT but every methodology our own ratio engine could establish for that issuer failed, the row is marked ‡. The verdict comes from a provider that also screens business activity; our ratios test the balance sheet. Neither is wrong, and they disagree — which is worth knowing before relying on the verdict rather than after.

And a third case, which neither mark above could reach. Where the status reads QUESTIONABLE — the compliance provider looked and declined to come down either way — while every methodology our own engine could establish agreed, the row is marked §. A hedge is not a finding, and our own unanimous reading of the balance sheet is worth opening before taking the hedge at face value.