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title: "Fundamental metric columns"
description: "Fundamental metric columns are the measured values a screener's results table shows per match — 35 columns in all, spread across its five tabs of results."
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# Fundamental metric columns

Fundamental metric columns are the measured values a [screener](/docs/getting-started/screener)'s results table shows for each match: company financials, growth rates, valuation multiples, dividend figures, and price-derived measures. There are **35 columns in total**, spread across the table's five tabs — **Overview**, **Returns**, **Fundamentals**, **Ratios**, and **Dividend** — and the count includes the identity and classification columns (Symbol, Asset type, Exchange, Country, Sector, Industry) that sit alongside the metrics. A column reports what the instrument reads today; it is not a filter, and showing a column does not screen on it.

**Also seen as:** results columns, results-table columns

## What does each results column show?

Every column appears on at least one tab, and several appear on more than one. The **Unit line** is the small second line under the header, shown only where the measurement basis needs stating.

| Column | Tabs | What it shows | Unit line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Symbol | all five | The instrument itself — its name, with its exchange and ticker beneath. See [instrument](/docs/getting-started/instrument). | — |
| Asset type | all five | Stock, ETP, or crypto. See [asset type](/docs/getting-started/asset-type). | — |
| Asset subtype | Overview | The narrower instrument type inside the asset type. See [asset subtype](/docs/screeners/asset-subtypes). | — |
| Market Cap | Overview, Ratios | Total market value of all shares. | — |
| 1Y | Overview, Returns | Return over the last 12 months, beside a one-year price sparkline. | — |
| Exchange | Overview, Returns | Marketplace where it trades. | — |
| Country | Overview | Country the company is based in. | — |
| Sector | Overview | Broad industry group. | — |
| Industry | Overview | Specific industry. | — |
| YTD | Returns | Return since the start of the year. | — |
| 1M | Returns | Return over the last month. | — |
| MTD | Returns | Return since the start of the month. | — |
| Sharpe | Returns | The instrument's own return per unit of risk. See [Sharpe ratio](/docs/analysis/sharpe-ratio). | — |
| Beta | Returns | How much the instrument moves with the market. See [beta](/docs/analysis/beta). | — |
| Sales | Fundamentals | Revenue over the trailing twelve months. | TTM |
| Sales growth | Fundamentals | Change in trailing-twelve-month revenue against the year before. | TTM · YoY |
| Gross profit growth | Fundamentals | Change in trailing-twelve-month gross profit against the year before. | TTM · YoY |
| EBITDA growth | Fundamentals | Change in trailing-twelve-month EBITDA against the year before. | TTM · YoY |
| Net income growth | Fundamentals | Change in trailing-twelve-month net income against the year before. | TTM · YoY |
| FCF growth | Fundamentals | Change in trailing-twelve-month free cash flow against the year before. | TTM · YoY |
| Working capital growth | Fundamentals | Change in working capital against the year before. | YoY |
| D/E | Fundamentals | Debt to equity. | — |
| Quick ratio | Fundamentals | Short-term liquidity. | — |
| ROE | Fundamentals | Return on equity. | — |
| EV | Ratios | Enterprise value. | — |
| P/E | Ratios | Price to earnings. | — |
| P/S | Ratios | Price to sales. | — |
| P/FCF | Ratios | Price to free cash flow. | — |
| P/BV | Ratios | Price to book value. | — |
| EV/EBITDA | Ratios | Enterprise value to EBITDA. | — |
| FCF yield | Ratios | Free cash flow yield. | % |
| Last Price | Dividend | Most recent closing price. | — |
| Div per share | Dividend | Dividend per share. | — |
| Div yield | Dividend | Dividend yield. | % |
| Payout ratio | Dividend | Share of earnings paid as dividends. | % |

The six growth columns all read the same way: a trailing-twelve-month or point-in-time figure compared with the same figure a year earlier. That shared measurement basis is explained in [TTM and YoY](/docs/screeners/ttm-and-yoy).

## Which columns have a page of their own?

Four of the 35 have their own concept page, because the same term appears elsewhere in the product and not only as a column header: [instrument](/docs/getting-started/instrument) behind Symbol, [asset subtype](/docs/screeners/asset-subtypes), [Sharpe ratio](/docs/analysis/sharpe-ratio), and [beta](/docs/analysis/beta). A fifth page covers no column of its own: [TTM and YoY](/docs/screeners/ttm-and-yoy) is the shared measurement basis behind the six growth columns. The remaining columns are defined in the table above and in the header hint each one carries in the app; every column in the results table has help on hover today.

**Sharpe** and **Beta** here describe the individual instrument's own price history, not a strategy's. They are not the same figures a backtest reports for a strategy over a chosen period, and the two should not be read against each other.

## Defaults in Fincanva

- Columns are grouped by tab, and switching tabs changes the columns rather than the instruments — the same matches are shown throughout.
- Every tab starts with **Symbol** and **Asset type**, so a row stays identifiable whichever tab you are on.
- The **Columns** button hides or shows columns for the tab you are on; the choice is remembered per tab.
- Any column header sorts the table, and sorting is applied across the whole result set, not just the rows currently on screen.
- A cell with no value available reads as a dash rather than a zero — a missing reading and a reading of zero are not the same thing.
- Return and growth columns are colour-tinted, and the 1Y sparkline takes its colour from the sign of its return.
- Column values describe the instrument as it reads now. A screener's filters decide which instruments appear; the columns only report on them.

## Worked example: reading one row across the tabs

One match — a mid-size industrial company — read across all five tabs.

- **Overview** places it: the Symbol cell names it with its exchange and ticker, 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 a sparkline of the path it took to get there.
- **Returns** breaks that path down: 1Y, YTD, 1M, and MTD are four different windows on the same price series, so a strong 1Y beside a weak MTD simply means a good year with a soft current month. Sharpe and Beta add how choppy the ride was and how closely it tracked the market.
- **Fundamentals** turns to the accounts: Sales gives the trailing-twelve-month revenue level, and the six growth columns beside it give the direction of travel against the year before. D/E, Quick ratio, and ROE describe leverage, short-term liquidity, and profitability.
- **Ratios** prices those accounts: EV alongside Market Cap, then P/E, P/S, P/FCF, P/BV, and EV/EBITDA as five different ways of dividing price by a fundamental, plus FCF yield as the inverse view of P/FCF.
- **Dividend** covers the payout: Last Price, Div per share, Div yield, and Payout ratio — the last of these 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*. No single column answers a question on its own; each tab is one lens on the same instrument.

*These figures describe what an instrument reads on historical and current data, not what it will do. Fincanva provides no financial advice — see [Is this financial advice?](/docs/investing-theory/is-this-financial-advice).*