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A Warren Buffett Stock Screen

Diamond Offshore is publicly traded, but it is privately controlled by the Loews Corporation and the Tisch family, who own over 50% of the stock. Buffett would never buy shares in such a company, unless the controlling shareholder was interested in divesting their ownership.

I'm also surprised to see a criterion like dividend yield as part of the filter. This have never been part of Buffett's criteria. I also can't see him considering a stock with a P/E over 20 as a "reasonable price".

Howard Silverbatt, the S&P analyst who created the list, has absolutely no understanding of Buffett's decision-making process. Mentioning Warren's name in the title is a shameless attempt to plug his own, flawed analysis.