High R&D intensity
R&D spend that meaningfully outpaces sector peers, with evidence the company turns research into shippable product (patents, new product cycles, refresh cadence).
Definition
What is the Fisher-Fit Score?
The Fisher-Fit Score is a 0 to 100 grade that measures how closely a stock fits Philip Fisher's growth-quality criteria: high R&D intensity, scuttlebutt-quality management, and a durable competitive position. invest-like computes it for every US-listed stock.
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Short answer
Fisher-Fit grades a stock from 0 to 100 against the fifteen-point checklist Philip Fisher published in Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits: R&D intensity, management depth and candor, durable competitive position, gross-margin trajectory, and long-term orientation of the capital allocation. The headline number is the equal-weight blend of the pillars, mapped to an A+ to D grade. Educational fit assessment, never advice.
How the Fisher-Fit Score is calculated
invest-like checks each pillar against published Fisher criteria using daily fundamentals plus retrieved passages from 10-K filings and earnings calls. Each pillar gets a sub-score from 0 to 100 and a paragraph of LLM reasoning. The pillars blend equally into the headline grade, which maps to the same A+ to D ladder used across all seven framework scores at invest-like.
Scuttlebutt-quality management
Plain-language guidance that holds up, low executive turnover, equity comp aligned to long-term metrics, candid acknowledgment of misses.
Durable competitive position
Above-peer gross margin, growing market share, customer retention or repeat-purchase data, and a sales organisation that scales with the product.
Long-term orientation
Reinvestment over dividends in the early innings, capital allocation that tolerates 3-5 year payback cycles, and patient shareholders cultivated by the IR program.
Why Fisher-Fit matters
Fisher invented modern growth investing. His framework catches durable compounders before they look cheap on a Graham screen and before the multi-year ROIC track record required by Buffett. Treating Fisher-Fit as one of seven lenses surfaces high-quality growth stories that other value screens systematically miss.
The same 0 to 100 scale appears across every verdict page, the public API, and the backtested track record at /track-record/.
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Related
- Seven-framework methodology hub - how Fisher-Fit sits alongside the other six value-investing frameworks invest-like scores every stock against.
- Top Fisher-fit stocks today - the live ranking of US-listed stocks that pass Fisher's fifteen-point growth-quality test.
- Cross-framework working papers - evidence on how Fisher-style scuttlebutt criteria perform across decades of US-listed data.
See the Fisher-Fit grade for any stock
Open any verdict page on invest-like and Fisher-Fit appears next to the other six framework grades.
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