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Can SNAP ride the Metaverse bandwagon?

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  Most people including investors on social media don't need an introduction to Snap Inc., (SNAP).   Based on its profile on Yahoo.com , Snap operates as a camera company in North America, Europe, and internationally. The company offers Snapchat, a camera application with various functionalities, such as Camera, Communication, Snap Map, Stories, and Spotlight that enable people to communicate visually through short videos and images. As investors and analysts know very well, it is not enough to be a successful and promising company to be a promising and great investment. While SNAP has come a long way since its post-IPO bottom of  around $8-9, it has also fallen a lot from its 52 W high of $83.34, which may also be its All Time High (ATH). Just like other Social Media names like FB - Meta Inc and TWTR - Twitter Inc, SNAP has also been hit by recent tech/growth stock market wreckage since November 2021. While SNAP's price got a lift from being associated with Metavers...

Making use of Stock Screeners

While stock picking or stock selection is not the easiest of tasks in investing, stock screening is one of the good starting points in this process. Internet and technology has made it very convenient to screen stocks, funds and ETF's for further study and analysis Finance sites such as Yahoo, MSN and IBD provide very helpful stock screeners For Indian stock buffs, there do not seem to be very many free options. ICICI Direct has good stock screeners, but I guess it is available only for members, unless there is a way to get around its Research section and jump to the screeners The free ones are : http://money.rediff.com/money/jsp/markets_home.jsp http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/stockmarket/industryclassification/23/17/marketstatistics/NSE/indcomp http://idbipaisabuilder.in/Market_Content/Secure_Css.aspx http://www.business-standard.com/india/markets/ IDBI paisabuilder is only one that can be considered a parametric screener. The others are more of classified stock lists with the...