📂 MONDAY – Cash-Flow Momentum Screen: “Quiet Compounders Into Year-End”

As the final full trading week before the holidays begins, market leadership often shifts quietly. Funds reduce turnover, volatility thins, and cash-flow reliability starts to matter more than narrative.

Today’s Intel Drop screens for stocks with accelerating free cash flow, stable margins, and modest price momentum—names that institutions tend to hold (or add to) into year-end rather than trade around.

Use this to surface low-drama compounders that can outperform during thin liquidity periods.

PROMPT TEXT:

(copy & paste the below into your preferred AI model: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Meta, etc.)

You are screening for “Quiet Cash-Flow Compounders” as of December 15, 2025.

Goal:
Identify 12–20 U.S. stocks with accelerating free cash flow, stable margins, and controlled price momentum suitable for year-end positioning.

Filters:

1) Free Cash Flow Quality
- Positive free cash flow in each of the last 4 quarters
- Trailing 12-month FCF growth positive
- FCF margin stable or improving YoY

2) Earnings & Margin Stability
- No EPS misses in the last 2 quarters
- Gross and operating margins flat to improving
- No major restructuring or one-time distortions

3) Price Behavior
- 3-month return between +2% and +20%
- No single-day move >12% in last 30 days
- Above 100-day moving average

4) Valuation Sanity
- Forward P/E or EV/FCF below its own 5-year median
- Avoid extreme multiple expansion stories

5) Liquidity & Size
- Market cap > $7B
- Average daily dollar volume > $30M

Output:

1) WATCHLIST TABLE with:
- Ticker
- Company
- Sector
- FCF Trend
- Margin Trend
- Valuation vs History
- Price Behavior Note
- Why it fits “Quiet Compounder” profile

2) Summary (3–5 sentences):
- Common traits across the list
- Why cash-flow reliability matters in late December
- How these names tend to behave in low-volume weeks

Output in a clean table + 3–5 sentence explanation why this matters right now.

END PROMPT

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