STERLING QUALITY ORDER v1 — OFFICIAL DETERMINISTIC METHODOLOGY ORDER. NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. NOT A NUMERICAL SCORE. NOT VALIDATED FOR FUTURE RETURNS.
Deterministic, gates-before-scores ordering — no hidden numeric weights, no AI, no price influence.
1Data Sufficiency — is there enough reported history to evaluate this business at all?
2Quality & Risk Gates — profitability, margin stability, capital quality, cyclicality, growth, financial strength, value-trap risk, business nature.
3Quality Tier & Status — Qualified (green) always precedes Review (yellow), which always precedes Not Qualified (red). Insufficient Data / Special Review stay in their own separate, clearly labeled group — never mixed in and never treated as worse than red.
4Deterministic Order Within Tier — companies inside the same tier are ordered by a fixed, documented evidence hierarchy (data confidence, profitability, ROIC evidence, cyclicality, margin trend, growth, financial strength, warnings, then ticker) — never a hidden weight.
Valuation, Fundamental Momentum, Price Momentum and Value Creation evidence are shown for context only — none of them can change this order.
No AI model is used to compute this order. No paid data provider. No numeric score — only Gates, Tier and deterministic Order.
STERLING OPPORTUNITY RANK — NOT YET AVAILABLE. Requires Quality Qualification + Valuation + Fundamental Momentum + Price Momentum coverage, which does not exist yet for this market.