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The screen free sites can't run: 60,000 listings, private companies included
The first time I sorted this screener by market cap, the top of the list looked the way you'd expect — Nvidia, then Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, the usual procession. Then, a couple dozen rows down, sitting between Broadcom and Eli Lilly like it belonged there: Anthropic. A private company, with a little "P" badge on its ticker and a valuation over a trillion dollars. OpenAI showed up a few rows later. Then SpaceX. Then ByteDance.
That's the thing to understand about EQS before we get to any buttons: the
universe is everything. Roughly 60,000 listings across every world venue —
the count read 60,152 the first day I checked and 60,153 two days later,
drifting as listings come and go — with the private giants sitting right in
the table for reference. A free screener covers a few thousand US names and
calls it a day. When you run a screen here, you're searching markets most
tools don't know exist.
A real screen, run on a Sunday
The market was closed the morning I ran the screen below, which is exactly the point — screening is weekend work, the homework that decides what Monday's watchlist holds. The question I gave it: mid-cap technology, somewhere between $500 million and $5 billion, trading under three times sales. Three filters in the left panel — market cap range, sector, P/S — plus two toggles that matter: Show primary listings only, so each company appears once instead of once per exchange, and Hide results with no trades, which drops the zombie rows. Then Run.
Two hundred twenty-two matches, and the first thing you notice scrolling them is how Japanese they are — Tokyo Seimitsu and Hamamatsu Photonics at the top by size, then Vishay, Lumine Group, Kakaku.com, Insight Enterprises, Belden, BILL, Sega Sammy, Nikon, Wix. A cheap-tech screen run over the whole world turned out to live mostly in Japan that weekend, which is an answer a US-only screener is structurally incapable of giving you. Whether any single row deserves attention is what the triage loop exists to decide — a right-click on any row opens DES and drops the name straight into it.
One honest warning from that same run, visible in the capture: a lot of international rows print a P/S of 0.00. That's not a bargain — it's missing data slipping through the "under 3" filter. Sort by the P/S column and read from the top of the real numbers, and treat any too-good ratio on a foreign listing as a data question before a valuation one.
Reading the results like an operator
A few things the window does that reward knowing. The filters accept
shorthand — 500M and 5B type exactly like that. International rows carry
their venue suffix and the (D) delayed badge, so
the two-clocks problem follows you into
screening: a delayed foreign print next to a live US one is not the same
kind of number. Private rows have the P badge and no live price — reference
data, not opportunities. The count at the bottom is honest about paging
(500 rows per page, so a big screen means walking pages), and there's an
Export to Excel button whose full-set behavior I haven't verified — test it
on a screen small enough to count before trusting it with a big one.
And the window carries a Beta tag it earns: controls have moved between my visits. The workflow above hasn't.
Where the screen fits
The sequence that makes this window pay is weekly, not daily. Sunday: run the screens, walk the survivors through the loop, and let the few that earn it join Monday's watchlist. The screener finds names before your feed does; the wall watches them; the loop sorts them when they move. That's the whole machine, and this window is where it starts.
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