Biggest earners today

Screening Filters

1. Market Cap ≥ $500,000,000

   • Purpose: Focus on established, sizable companies rather than tiny speculative names.
   • Rationale: “Biggest earners” usually implies meaningful companies with real business scale, not microcaps that can jump wildly on low volume. A $500M+ market cap threshold helps surface stocks where a big move represents substantial value creation in dollar terms, not just a thinly traded spike.

2. Share Price ≥ $3

   • Purpose: Exclude penny stocks and highly speculative low-priced names.
   • Rationale: Very low-priced stocks can move 30–50% in a day on minimal news or volume, which often isn’t what people mean by “biggest earners.” A $3+ price floor keeps the list to more standard, institutionally investable names whose gains are more meaningful and less likely to be pure noise.

3. Monthly Average Dollar Volume ≥ $500,000

   • Purpose: Ensure the stocks are reasonably liquid and actively traded.
   • Rationale: “Biggest earners” is most useful when the names are actually tradable. Using dollar volume (price × shares traded) rather than just share volume focuses on stocks where significant capital is flowing, reducing the chance of illiquid, easily manipulated moves.

4. Daily Price Change % ≥ 10%

   • Purpose: Capture stocks with very strong gains today.
   • Rationale: To match “biggest earners,” we need a clear threshold for what counts as a big move. A 10%+ daily gain is a strong, standout move in most market conditions. This filter targets the high-end winners of the session rather than modest outperformers.

5. Exchange in [XNYS, XNAS, XASE] (NYSE, Nasdaq, NYSE American)

   • Purpose: Limit results to major U.S. exchanges.
   • Rationale: The user specified the “US stock market.” These three exchanges cover the vast majority of recognizable U.S.-listed companies and exclude OTC and foreign exchanges, aligning with typical investor expectations of “US stocks.”

6. Is Optionable = True

   • Purpose: Focus on more established, widely followed stocks that have listed options.
   • Rationale: Optionability is a strong proxy for institutional interest, regulatory vetting, and minimum liquidity standards. Stocks with options tend to be more mainstream; their “big earning” moves are more likely tied to significant news (earnings, M&A, etc.) rather than obscure trading anomalies.

Why Results Match:

• The 10%+ daily price gain filter directly targets the strongest winners of the day, aligning with “biggest earners.”
• The U.S. exchange filters (NYSE, Nasdaq, NYSE American) ensure you’re seeing moves in the core U.S. equity markets, not foreign or OTC listings.
• The market cap, price, liquidity, and optionability filters refine the list to tradable, established, and more meaningful movers, so the “biggest earners” are not just tiny, illiquid penny stocks but stocks whose gains matter in dollar terms and are more investable for most traders and investors.