Trying to mechanically reduce the process of discovering undervalued equities to a few value ratios such as P/B, P/E or EV/EBITDA can hardly translate into sustained outperformance of the broader market. If this was was the case machines would have replaced every single money manager long ago. At the same time prices for stocks screening favourably would be bid up and the opportunity would cease to exist. Unfortunately this means that a straight-forward checklist, purely based on a bunch of financial ratios, does not help at all.
To define the checklist that can be of help to outperform the broader markets it is necessary to first outline the playing field and from there answer the question of what has to be done to outperform the market.
I believe the playing-field looks like this:
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