Please recommend an online stock alert service that allows triggers
based on valuation (price-to-sales, P/E, etc.) to be defined for all
companies above a certain market cap.

A great answer would point to sites with low or no charges, while
avoiding services that alert based on a pre-defined selection of
stocks.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 07 Oct 2004 08:48 PDT

When you say "alerts", are you looking for a service where you can
enter values (market cap, P/E, etc) and then see a list of stocks that
match your criteria?

Or are you looking to enter a permanent set of "triggers" and then be
notified (e.g., by email) when a stock's valuation changes to meet
those triggers.

The first is probably available, while the second, I'm not sure
about...stocks change value constantly throughout the day, and a
broad, trigger-based scheme covering all stocks (rather than a select
few) might result in hundreds or thousands of "alerts" every day
depending on your particular set of parameters.

Let us know a bit more about what you're after.

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by qna-ga on 07 Oct 2004 13:18 PDT

I'm not interested in stock screeners, but rather trigger-based alerts.

With sufficiently narrow parameters (say, market cap > $10B, P/E < 10,
and dividend yield > 1%),  the results may be confined to a reasonable
number of alerts.