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Asia & Gulf screener

Filter 6,506 listed companies across KOSPI (830), KOSDAQ (1,772), KONEX (107), ADX — Abu Dhabi (76), DFM — Dubai (49) and TSE — Tokyo (3,672) by the figures they actually filed.

What this screener tells you that others don't. When a filter removes a company because the figure does not exist — not because it failed your test — we count those companies and say so, in red, above the table. A PER screen on its own removes 1,782 of 6,506 companies that way, and that includes every one of the 125 Gulf listings and 535 of the 3,672 Tokyo listings. The reasons differ by market, and we name each one rather than let a single excuse stand for all of them. What Gulf companies file is quarterly, so a PER built on one quarter of earnings and today’s price would be a number we could not stand behind. And market capitalisation reaches us for 35 of the 125: Dubai companies state it in their own filings, which we carry, while Abu Dhabi publishes it only on the exchange’s own market-data board, whose terms of use bar systematic retrieval of site content to compile a database — so we do not republish it. Tokyo is a different case again, and it is the one where we had been wrong about ourselves: we hold the audited statements every listed company files with the Financial Services Agency, and we had written here that Japanese share prices were beyond us. They were inside the filings we already held. A Japanese annual report states the company’s own price-earnings ratio alongside its earnings per share, and those two multiply back to the share price on the closing date of the financial year — from which market capitalisation and price-to-book follow. That is why 3,137 of the 3,672 Tokyo listings now carry a PER and 3,106 carry a market capitalisation. Read the Tokyo price columns as of each company’s financial year-end, not as of today — the date is on the row. A company that reported a loss has no meaningful PER, so it has no derived price either, and those cells stay empty. The share count a Japanese filing states is shares issued, which includes any the company holds itself, so a Tokyo market capitalisation here is a slight overstatement for a company sitting on treasury stock; we would rather say that than quietly net it off with a number the filing does not give us. Tokyo has no price-to-book column at all, and that one is worth spelling out: the filings carry a net-assets-per-share figure, but they do not say whether it is the group’s or the parent company’s alone, and it is demonstrably one for some filers and the other for others. Dividing a group share price by a parent-only book value produces a ratio that looks precise and means nothing, so we publish none until we can tell the two apart. Every empty cell says which of these it is, on the row itself. Most screeners drop these companies in silence, and the market then looks smaller and tidier than it really is.

What we could reach, we went and got. Price-to-book asks nothing of a quarter — the market cap and the book value are both figures from one day — so the quarterly problem above does not touch it. Getting there meant reading the balance sheet out of the audited PDF, and for many Gulf filers that page is a scan with no text in it at all: we render the page and read it. A figure only stands if assets equal liabilities plus equity to within 0.5% and the filing states the scale it is written in — thousands, millions, dirhams or dollars, which differs by company. 15 of the 125 Gulf listings now carry a price-to-book ratio on that basis. The rest stay empty, and the row says why — for the Abu Dhabi names the balance sheet is there and it is the market capitalisation we cannot republish, which is a different thing from a figure we failed to read.