Screening Filters
Market Cap ≥ $2,000,000,000
- Purpose: Focus on larger, more established companies.
- Rationale:
- When someone asks for the “best-performing stock in the US market,” they usually care about meaningful, investable names rather than tiny, illiquid penny stocks that can spike wildly on low volume.
- A minimum market cap of $2B targets mid-cap and large-cap companies, where strong performance is more likely to reflect real business strength or major news, not random price manipulation.
Price ≥ $5
- Purpose: Exclude penny stocks and ultra-low-priced shares.
- Rationale:
- Very low-priced stocks can move 20–50% in a day on small trades, which can make them appear as “best performers” but with huge risk and often poor fundamentals.
- A $5 minimum price narrows the list to more mainstream, institutionally investable stocks, making “best-performing” more meaningful and less driven by noise.
Average Daily Volume ≥ 2,000,000 shares
- Purpose: Ensure results are liquid, actively traded stocks.
- Rationale:
- High volume means tight bid–ask spreads, easier entry/exit, and price moves supported by broad market participation.
- This helps avoid thinly traded names where a small number of trades can create extreme but misleading “performance.”
Daily Price Change % ≥ 5.0001%
- Purpose: Capture stocks with strong positive performance “right now.”
- Rationale:
- Your question is time-sensitive (“right now”), so a meaningful single-day move is a reasonable proxy for current “best performance.”
- A 5%+ move in a mid/large-cap, liquid stock is significant and usually driven by major catalysts (earnings, guidance, M&A, regulatory events, etc.), aligning with the idea of standout performance today.
- The boundary at just over 5% ensures we strictly capture moves greater than or equal to 5% in practice.
Region: United States
- Purpose: Limit search to the US market.
- Rationale:
- You explicitly asked about the US market, so foreign listings and ADRs outside the US are excluded.
- This keeps results consistent with US trading hours, regulations, and typical US investor access.
Exchange: XNYS (NYSE), XNAS (NASDAQ), XASE (AMEX)
- Purpose: Restrict to major US stock exchanges.
- Rationale:
- These are the primary US equity exchanges where most reputable, widely followed companies trade.
- Excluding OTC, pink sheets, and minor venues further removes low-quality, easily manipulated issues from the “best-performing” list.
Why Results Match Your Request
- The filters focus on US-listed, sizable, and liquid companies, which is the most practical interpretation of “US market” for investors.
- The 5%+ daily price move criterion zeroes in on stocks that are performing exceptionally well today, making them candidates for “best-performing right now.”
- By excluding illiquid, very small, and ultra-cheap stocks, the screen highlights performance that’s more likely to be meaningful and actionable, not just statistical noise or one-off price spikes.
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