I am a numbers person–especially when it comes to stock analysis. Every month, I fill up a spreadsheet with 1,000 stocks and 244 columns of data and formulas. I then turn my computer loose, and it goes wild performing two million calculations. Why so many calculations? I want the computer to tell me which companies have produced steady sales, earnings and dividend growth during the past 10 years. I also want to find companies that will continue to grow during the next year, two years, or even the next five years. In addition, I want to find companies that...