Why five dimensions
Most research goes wrong in the same way: one striking number decides the whole case. A low price-to-earnings ratio makes a weak business look cheap; a strong growth rate hides a stretched balance sheet.
The 5D Framework fixes the shape of the question. Every company is read across Quality, Peers, Valuation, Analysts and Holdings, and each dimension is scored from 0 to 100 using the same bands for every listing. Nothing is skipped because it was inconvenient.
How the scores are built
Each dimension is an average of the metrics that belong to it, mapped onto a common 0–100 scale. A metric where lower is better — debt to equity, for example — is simply inverted, so a high score always means the same thing.
The overall score is the plain average of the five. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a verdict.
Using it well
Read the dimensions before the total. Two companies can share an overall score of 62 and be nothing alike: one strong on quality and expensive, the other cheap and fragile.
These are tools, not advice. Scores describe the figures on file; they cannot describe your circumstances or your timeframe.