1,168 US companies were ranked on the close of Monday, 28 September 2026. Yelp is first with a score of 80.4, as it was the session before. Pacira BioSciences joins the five, and BorgWarner drops out. The biggest move among them: Cricut, up 3.1% on the day.
How to read the four numbers
Every company gets four scores, and each is a percentile against other companies in its own sector, on the same day. Cheapness 98 means the company looks cheaper than 98% of its sector on enterprise value against operating profit, free cash flow and sales, plus what it returns to shareholders. It does not mean cheap against the market.
The four combine into one composite: cheapness 40%, quality 30%, safety 20%, confirmation 10%. To be ranked at all a company must trade above $3.0, be worth $300 million, and turn over $2 million of stock a day. Banks, insurers and property trusts are excluded, because enterprise-value measures do not describe those balance sheets honestly. This session 1,168 companies were ranked and 155 were left out for want of data.
The five
| # | Company | Price | Score | Cheap | Qual | Safe | Conf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | YELPYelp · Consumer Services | $17.59 | 80.4 | 98 | 92 | 63 | 11 |
| 2 | NRDSNerdWallet · Technology | $8.52 | 79.5 | 97 | 84 | 65 | 24 |
| 3 | CRCTCricut · Industrials | $6.33 | 78.2 | 78 | 98 | 57 | 58 |
| 4 | CRLCharles River Labs · Biotech & Pharma | $294.59 | 77.3 | 84 | 75 | 67 | 78 |
| 5 | PCRXPacira BioSciences · Biotech & Pharma | $25.39 | 76.7 | 92 | 80 | 61 | 36 |
Everything except the price comes from each company’s most recent SEC filings, which can lag a quarter behind the news.
1 · Yelp — Consumer Services
Cheapness of 98: enterprise value 5.4 times operating profit, 2.7 times free cash flow and a 29.6% trailing shareholder yield. Quality of 92: 24.7% return on invested capital and profits backed by cash.
Confirmation of 11: down 28.1% over twelve months and at 70% of its 200-day average.
The filings did not supply gross profitability, so the score leans on fewer measures than usual. The shareholder yield is a trailing twelve-month figure, divided by today's market value: a lower price raises it without a dollar more being returned.
The session before it was #1 at $18.03 with a score of 80.2; today's close is −2.4% on that.
2 · NerdWallet — Technology
Cheapness of 97: enterprise value 6.9 times operating profit, 3.9 times free cash flow and a 12.5% trailing shareholder yield. Quality of 84: 20.6% return on invested capital and profits backed by cash.
Confirmation of 24: down 10.2% over twelve months and at 82% of its 200-day average.
The filings did not supply gross profitability, so the score leans on fewer measures than usual.
The session before it was #2 at $8.50 with a score of 79.5; today's close is +0.2% on that.
3 · Cricut — Industrials
Quality of 98: 68.5% return on invested capital and profits backed by cash. Cheapness of 78: enterprise value 10.4 times operating profit, 5.5 times free cash flow and a 1.9% trailing shareholder yield.
Safety of 57: net cash, interest covered 185.2 times and share count down 1.2% on the year.
The session before it was #3 at $6.14 with a score of 78.1; today's close is +3.1% on that.
4 · Charles River Labs — Biotech & Pharma
Cheapness of 84: enterprise value 32.7 times operating profit, 19.0 times free cash flow and a 2.5% trailing shareholder yield. Confirmation of 78: up 103.6% over twelve months and at 142% of its 200-day average.
Safety of 67: net cash, no meaningful interest cost and share count down 2.1% on the year.
The filings did not supply gross profitability, so the score leans on fewer measures than usual.
The session before it was #4 at $292.84 with a score of 77.5; today's close is +0.6% on that.
5 · Pacira BioSciences — Biotech & Pharma
Cheapness of 92: enterprise value 51.4 times operating profit, 8.9 times free cash flow and a 14.9% trailing shareholder yield. Quality of 80: 2.1% return on invested capital and profits backed by cash.
Confirmation of 36: up 0.7% over twelve months and at 106% of its 200-day average.
The filings did not supply gross profitability, so the score leans on fewer measures than usual.
The session before it was #6 at $25.12 with a score of 76.7; today's close is +1.1% on that.
The standing limit: in testing, this ranking ordered the universe — the bottom decile performed consistently worse than the top — but the top decile itself performed about in line with the market. A high rank buys a shorter reading list. It does not buy a return.
Sources: The Vance Report’s own screen file for 28 September 2026, built from SEC company facts and Nasdaq closing prices; the method is at how the Vance Value Screener works. Educational research, not investment advice.