Stocks with over 80% upside

Screening Filters

1. Market Cap ≥ $1,000,000,000

   • Purpose: Focus on larger, more established U.S. companies.
   • Rationale:
     • The user wants U.S. stocks with significant upside, not ultra-speculative microcaps.
     • A $1B minimum market cap screens out very small or illiquid names where price targets and “upside” can be highly erratic or based on thin trading.
     • This keeps the universe to mid- and large-cap stocks where analyst coverage and target prices are more meaningful.

2. Monthly Average Dollar Volume ≥ $300,000

   • Purpose: Ensure the stocks are reasonably liquid and tradable.
   • Rationale:
     • Upside is only useful if you can actually buy and sell the stock without huge price impact.
     • A minimum dollar volume filters out illiquid stocks that trade very little, where spreads are wide and getting in/out can be difficult.
     • This makes the results more practical for real-world investing.

3. Exchange Listing: XNYS, XNAS, XASE (NYSE, NASDAQ, NYSE American)

   • Purpose: Restrict to major U.S. exchanges.
   • Rationale:
     • The user specifically asked for “stocks … in the US market.”
     • Limiting to NYSE, NASDAQ, and NYSE American ensures you’re seeing primary U.S.-listed equities, not over-the-counter or foreign exchanges.
     • These venues also typically have better disclosure, regulation, and analyst coverage—important for reliable upside estimates.

4. Region: United States

   • Purpose: Ensure the companies themselves are U.S.-based.
   • Rationale:
     • Some foreign companies list on U.S. exchanges as ADRs; this filter narrows to companies whose primary region is the U.S.
     • This aligns with a focus on the U.S. market in terms of domicile, regulation, and underlying business exposure.

5. Analyst Consensus: Strong Buy, Moderate Buy

   • Purpose: Include only stocks with a broadly positive analyst view.
   • Rationale:
     • “Upside” is grounded in analysts’ target prices. If a stock is rated “Hold” or “Sell,” large upside targets are less common or less credible.
     • Restricting to Strong/Moderate Buy selects names where a majority of covering analysts are recommending purchase, which naturally overlaps with higher target-price upside expectations.
     • This helps focus on candidates where professional consensus supports the idea of significant future appreciation.

6. Target Price Upside Potential: MoreAbovePrice

   • Purpose: Capture stocks where analysts’ target prices are substantially higher than the current market price.
   • Rationale:
     • The user’s key requirement is “over 80% upside.” This refers to the percentage difference between current price and analysts’ target price.
     • This filter explicitly looks for stocks whose consensus target price is meaningfully above the current price (“MoreAbovePrice”), i.e., cases where analysts see large potential appreciation.
     • While the label here is categorical rather than numeric in your view, it’s the mechanism used to identify names with high target‐price upside, on which an additional 80% threshold can then be applied or approximated.

Why Results Match:

• The U.S. region + U.S. exchange filters ensure all results are genuinely part of the U.S. equity market, matching your location requirement.
• The market cap and liquidity filters remove tiny, thinly traded names, giving you more investable, institutionally followed stocks where upside estimates are more reliable.
• The analyst consensus filter focuses on stocks that analysts are actively recommending to buy, which is consistent with a search for high upside opportunities rather than neutral or bearish names.
• The target price upside potential filter directly targets stocks whose analyst price targets sit significantly above the current share price, aligning with your request for stocks with large (80%+) upside potential.