The SSG also requires some decisions from the investor researching a prospective stock purchase regarding the company's future prospects.
Judgments fall into two categories, primary and secondary.
The primary judgments must be made by the investor in order to complete an SSG study. Secondary judgments are equally important. It is the investor's responsibility to review the secondary judgments and decide if the default numbers are appropriate or if they should be adjusted. Incidentally, the names primary and secondary judgments were arbitrarily chosen. These are called outliers and may be omitted if they distort the average.