What This Sector-by-Sector Valuation Screener Is

The captured item from Belgian publisher BE is not a news story but a Dutch-language stock-screening page. Its opening line invites readers to find the 'best valued companies' by enterprise value and sort the list by PER, PEG, EV/Sales, EV/EBIT and many other metrics. The underlying idea is that listed companies can be ranked by how expensive or cheap their overall valuation looks relative to earnings and sales.

The screen organises companies into a wide sector taxonomy. The list covers integrated oil and gas, oilfield equipment and services, renewable energy, basic materials, diversified chemicals, specialty mining and metals, industrial machinery, shipbuilding, freight and logistics, autos and parts, tires and rubber, restaurants, entertainment production, homebuilding and construction materials, retail and clothing chains, household products, distillers, tobacco, business financial services, investment banking and brokerage, exchanges, exchange-traded funds, multiline insurers, healthcare equipment, care providers, software and IT services, semiconductors, electronic equipment, phones and portable devices, and fintech.

The page itself carries no company rankings, valuation figures or editorial analysis in the version captured; the original headline is literally 'title', which suggests this is an index or navigation page rather than a finished report. Its value here is descriptive: it shows how a retail-oriented market data site frames valuation screening and which ratios it treats as defaults.

Why PER, PEG and EV Multiples Rank Companies Differently

PER, PEG and the EV Family: Different Filters for Different Questions

The ratios named on the page measure different things. PER prices a company against its earnings per share, while PEG divides the PER by expected earnings growth so that faster-growing companies face a lower hurdle. EV/Sales and EV/EBIT switch the numerator from equity price to enterprise value — market capitalisation plus net debt. That design makes EV-based multiples more informative for capital-intensive sectors, where financing structure distorts plain price-to-earnings comparisons. Offering both families side by side lets the same screener serve asset-light software stocks and debt-heavy shipbuilders alike. This reading applies standard valuation definitions to the tool; no specific company is implied.

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A Taxonomy That Spans Oil to Fintech

The sector list reveals how broad the site is aiming. Cyclical industries such as integrated oil and gas, mining, shipbuilding, autos and tires sit next to defensive names like tobacco, distillers and household products, with growth areas such as software, semiconductors and fintech at the other end. Two details stand out. Exchange-traded funds appear in the same list as operating companies, even though ETFs are baskets of securities rather than businesses with their own earnings. And the taxonomy is not fully cleaned up: fintech appears twice and semiconductor materials is duplicated, a sign the category tree is maintained incrementally rather than through a single controlled list.

What a 'Best Valued' Screen Can and Cannot Show

The page promises to find companies where enterprise value is 'most profitable', but a screen based on multiples can only flag cheapness, not quality. A low PER or EV/EBIT says a company is inexpensive relative to current earnings; it says nothing about why the market discounts it, or whether the discount is justified by debt, margins or shrinking demand. In practice, the tool's real job is to narrow a large universe of listed companies into a shortlist — the follow-up work of checking results, balance sheets and the story behind the multiple still belongs to the user. That distinction is worth keeping in mind when reading any 'best valued' ranking.

Using the Screener's Ratios Without Over-Reading Them

Since the captured page contains no company-level figures, the practical takeaway is about how to use the screener's own filters without over-reading them:

  • Match the ratio to the sector: use EV/EBIT or EV/Sales for capital-intensive groups such as integrated oil and gas, shipbuilding, freight or semiconductors, where net debt distorts plain PER; use PER and PEG for software, fintech and other asset-light groups.
  • Compare within a single sector row: the screener ranks across dozens of categories, but a low EV/EBIT in mining is not directly comparable to the same figure in IT services because capital structures and margins differ.
  • Treat the rankings as a shortlist, not a verdict: the tool identifies companies that look cheap on a chosen multiple, and the reasons for that discount still require checking underlying results and debt maturities.