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title: "Read the columns of your matches"
description: "What every column of a screener's results table shows, tab by tab, from Overview to Dividend, and how to read one match across the five tabs."
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# Read the columns of your matches

A [screener](/glossary/screener)'s results table shows its matches under five tabs of columns — **Overview**, **Returns**, **Fundamentals**, **Ratios** and **Dividend** — and each tab reads the same instruments through a different lens.

## Steps

1. **Place the instrument on Overview.** **Symbol** is the [instrument](/glossary/instrument) itself, its name with its exchange and ticker beneath; **Asset type** reads Stock, ETP or crypto, and **Asset subtype** the narrower type inside it; **Market Cap** is the total market value of all its shares; **1Y** is its return over the last 12 months, beside a one-year price sparkline; **Exchange** is where it trades, **Country** where the company is based, **Sector** its broad industry group and **Industry** the specific one.
2. **Read how its price moved on Returns.** **1Y**, **YTD** (since the start of the year), **1M** (the last month) and **MTD** (since the start of the month) are four windows on the same price series, shown with **Exchange**. **Sharpe** is the instrument's own return over the last 12 months per unit of [volatility](/glossary/volatility), with no [risk-free rate](/glossary/risk-free-rate) subtracted, and **Beta** how much it moves with the market.
3. **Read the accounts on Fundamentals.** **Sales** is revenue over the trailing twelve months. **Sales growth**, **Gross profit growth**, **EBITDA growth**, **Net income growth** and **FCF growth** compare that trailing-twelve-month figure with the year before, and **Working capital growth** compares working capital with the year before. **D/E** is debt to equity, **Quick ratio** short-term liquidity and **ROE** return on equity.
4. **Read what you pay on Ratios.** **EV** is enterprise value, shown beside **Market Cap**; **P/E**, **P/S**, **P/FCF**, **P/BV** and **EV/EBITDA** divide price — or enterprise value — by earnings, sales, free cash flow, book value and EBITDA; **FCF yield** is free cash flow as a percentage of price, the inverse view of P/FCF.
5. **Read what it pays on Dividend.** **Last Price** is the most recent close, **Div per share** the dividend per share, **Div yield** that dividend as a percentage of price, and **Payout ratio** the share of earnings paid out as dividends.
6. **Check the unit line** — the small second line under a header, shown only where the basis needs stating: **TTM** under Sales, **TTM · YoY** under the five trailing-twelve-month growth columns, **YoY** under Working capital growth, and **%** under FCF yield, Div yield and Payout ratio. [TTM and YoY](/glossary/ttm-and-yoy) explains that basis.
7. **Keep only the columns you read** with **Columns**, which hides or shows them for the tab you are on and remembers the choice per tab.

**Done.** You can read any cell of the table, and every header carries its own hint on hover: every tab starts with **Symbol** and **Asset type**, so a row stays identifiable wherever you are; a dash means no value is available, which is not the same as zero; return and growth columns are tinted, and the 1Y sparkline takes its colour from the sign of its return. Selecting a header sorts the whole result set, not only the rows on screen.

## How do you read one row across the tabs?

Take one match, a mid-size industrial company, through the five tabs.

- **Overview** places it: the Symbol cell names it with its exchange and ticker, [Asset type](/glossary/asset-type) reads Stock, Market Cap puts it in the mid-size band, and Exchange, Country, Sector and Industry classify it. The 1Y cell shows its twelve-month return beside the path it took.
- **Returns** breaks that path down: 1Y, YTD, 1M and MTD are four windows on one price series, so a strong 1Y beside a weak MTD means a good year with a soft current month. [Sharpe](/glossary/sharpe-ratio) and [Beta](/glossary/beta) add how choppy the ride was and how closely it tracked the market.
- **Fundamentals** turns to the accounts: Sales gives the revenue level, the six growth columns the direction of travel against the year before, and D/E, Quick ratio and ROE describe leverage, short-term liquidity and profitability.
- **Ratios** prices those accounts: EV beside Market Cap, then five ways of dividing price by a fundamental, plus FCF yield as the inverse view of P/FCF.
- **Dividend** covers the payout, Payout ratio showing how much of earnings the dividend consumes.

Read in that order the row goes from *what it is*, to *how its price behaved*, to *what the business did*, to *what you pay for it*, to *what it pays you*.

Fincanva is for education and illustration only. It is not personalised financial advice, and past or simulated results do not predict future ones. [Read the Terms Addendum](https://fincanva.com/terms/addendum#section-3)