| dc.description.abstract | There are so many value-based stock selection strategies on the market that investors are frequently unable to appropriately select a combination of strategies with which to reach appropriate individual stock goals. This study uses software-based web crawling, via the Google search engine, to find value stock investment strategies frequently employed by the majority of investors; and by combining these with standards for evaluating financial fundamentals, applying the whole to marketed corporate stocks, to find low-risk, stable-reward investment targets. This study used the wisdom of crowds to find the two most commonly used value stock investment strategies: the price-earnings ratio method, and the dividend yield method. Investment packages were filtered in two stages. The first was using the F-Score financial fundamentals evaluation standard to filter fiscally sound companies. The second stage was to do a second screening based on the two aforementioned value stock investment strategies most commonly found in Google. The results showed that 1) although a wisdom of the crowd investment strategy based purely on Google searches would result in profit, it was not particularly significant compared to the Taiwan 50 (0050) ETF profit rate; and 2) if a Google search-based wisdom of the crowd investment strategy is combined with the F-Score to pick companies with sound financial fundamentals as investment targets, then a continued six-year application of this strategy, with the investment portfolio adjusted yearly, would result in a profit rate of 11.99%, which is significantly higher than the Taiwan 50 (0050) ETF’s 9.85% rate. | en_US |