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Welcome to this week's episode of the Money Tree Investing Podcast. This week we have Kevin Stewart,

who is the owner and founder of StocksFortheweek.com.

Welcome to the show.

Hi, Miranda.

It's a pleasure to be on the show and speak with you and your listeners today.

So one of the interesting things that you do on Stocks for the Week is you have what is called a safety score.

And I wanted to talk a little bit about that today, about what your safety score is and

then how it can be used in an investing strategy. So why don't you first give us a quick overview of

the safety score? I developed this concept of a safety score about five years ago when I started

this company. I think people have trouble differentiating between what a good

company is and what's an attractive price to invest in that company. So I tried to come up with a

concept that was quantitative and precise in nature to try to make that differentiation.

You know, we happen to be speaking today when the Federal Reserve is looking to raise interest

rates for the first time in nine years. So if people didn't think about safety in their investments beforehand,

with interest rates constantly going down, now is probably a good time for them to start

thinking about it in addition to other things that they think about. So what is taken into account when you're talking about safety score?

You talk about trying to find a good company at a good price.

Yes.

What kind of things are taken into account when you create the safety score?

Sure.

Well, we look at typical income statement balance sheet items that a financial analyst would

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