By the way I like Google Finance because they allow you to access all sorts of sites data, although they could put more ratios and info outside the balance sheets on the quote pages.

But the new Google Stock Screener is a great tool. I’ve only just begun to play with it but the javascript enabled Google interactivity and user friendliness of the tool is just what I’ve been looking for. You can add as many or as few screeners, or criteria as they call them, as you wish.

Now, they don’t have everything you’ve ever wanted in terms of ratios but they have some key ones that value investors should look for like book value per share, cash per share, and EPS growth rates. These are all stats that I’d like to see on the main page of each quote in Google Finance but glad that they finally opened up their site to new functionality.

If you like Google products and you like to research stocks then you’ve finally got a good place to visit in the new Google Stock Screener.