Best gold stocks

Screening Filters

1. Market Cap ≥ $500M ('market_cap': {'min': '500000000'})

   • Purpose: Focus on established, larger gold-related companies.
   • Rationale: “Best-performing” usually implies stocks that are both strong and more investable. A minimum market cap removes tiny, highly speculative miners and exploration plays whose big moves may be driven more by illiquidity or hype than by underlying business strength.

2. Monthly Average Dollar Volume ≥ $500K ('monthly_average_dollar_volume': {'min': '500000'})

   • Purpose: Ensure the stocks are reasonably liquid and actively traded.
   • Rationale: Strong performance is more meaningful when it happens in stocks that investors can actually trade in and out of without huge bid–ask spreads or moving the price a lot. This filter weeds out thinly traded microcaps where price jumps can be misleading.

3. Price Above 20-Day Moving Average ('moving_average_relationship': ['PriceAboveMA20'])

   • Purpose: Capture stocks in a short-term uptrend.
   • Rationale: A key part of “best-performing” is not just past returns, but an ongoing positive trend. Trading above the 20-day moving average is a technical sign that recent price action is strong and momentum is currently positive rather than already broken down.

4. 1-Month Price Change ≥ +15% ('month_price_change_pct': {'min': '15'})

   • Purpose: Directly target recent top performance.
   • Rationale: This is the core performance filter. Requiring at least a 15% gain over the last month focuses the search on names that have actually delivered strong recent returns, instead of just looking “okay” or moving sideways.

5. Theme: Gold Mining and Precious Metals ('themes': ['Gold Mining and Precious Metals'])

   • Purpose: Restrict results specifically to gold-related companies.
   • Rationale: This aligns precisely with “gold stocks,” typically meaning gold miners, royalty/streaming companies, and closely related precious metals businesses. It avoids unrelated sectors that just happen to be performing well.

6. Region: United States ('region': ['United States'])

   • Purpose: Limit the universe to US-listed gold stocks.
   • Rationale: The question is about “the US stock market,” so this filter makes sure you’re seeing companies listed and traded in the US, rather than Canadian, Australian, or other international gold miners.

Why the Results Match Your Request

• The theme and region filters ensure the list is genuinely “US gold stocks,” not other sectors or foreign markets.
• The 1-month performance and above 20-day MA filters identify stocks that are not just gold-related, but are also among the best recent performers in that group, with strong short-term momentum.
• The market cap and liquidity filters keep the focus on more credible, tradable companies so that the “best-performing” label reflects meaningful investor interest rather than erratic price moves in very small, illiquid names.