How To Find Bargain Stocks With The Kirkpatrick Screening Strategy

In this article I cover the Kirkpatrick Bargain stock-picking strategy and give you a list of stocks that currently pass the AAII Kirkpatrick Bargain screen based on the approach. The Kirkpatrick Bargain approach is a purely mechanical process that depends on facts instead of predictions to help investors avoid their own biases that ultimately cost them money.

Bargain Hunting With Kirkpatrick

Over the past 20 years, AAII’s Kirkpatrick Bargain screen has an annualized return of 9.1%, which is 1.4 percentage points above the S&P 500’s return of 7.7% over the same period. As of June 30, 2023, the Kirkpatrick Bargain screen is up 23.4% year to date, compared to 16.7% for the S&P 500.