Company REFS (Really Essential Financial Statistics) is the UK’s leading stock selection tool, used by thousands of professional and private investors to construct share portfolios – and manage them for profit. As an aid to stock-picking grounded in fundamental data and analysis, REFS is without equal. It’s the most efficient and effective tool for identifying shares really worth buying. Created in 1993 by Jim Slater (best-selling author of The Zulu Principle) and Peter Scott (co-founder of Hemmington Scott), REFS has subsequently spawned several imitators. But no genuine competitors… Because behind our unique company profiles and tables is a set of original algorithms and data structures that’s impossible to replicate.