Screening Filters
Market Cap ≥ $500,000,000
- Purpose: Focus on established, reasonably sized companies.
- Rationale:
- “Top-performing” usually implies not just big price moves, but moves in companies that are significant enough to matter to most investors.
- A minimum market cap of $500M avoids the very smallest micro-caps where big percentage moves are common but often driven by illiquidity, promotion, or extreme risk rather than genuine performance.
Price between $2 and $500
- Purpose: Exclude ultra-penny stocks and extremely high-priced outliers.
- Rationale:
- Stocks under $2 are frequently very speculative and can have wild swings that don’t necessarily represent sustainable or investable “performance.”
- Capping at $500 removes a few extremely expensive names where small percentage changes still look huge in dollar terms and can skew lists without adding much value for a typical investor.
Average Daily Volume ≥ 300,000 shares
- Purpose: Ensure the stocks are actively traded and more easily tradable.
- Rationale:
- “Top-performing” in a practical sense usually refers to stocks where investors can realistically enter and exit positions.
- A 300k volume floor filters out illiquid names where a few trades can move the price a lot, making them appear to “perform” but in reality just reflecting low liquidity.
Relative Volume ≥ 1.5
- Purpose: Highlight stocks that are trading with significantly higher activity than usual today.
- Rationale:
- Relative volume compares today’s volume to a typical day. A value ≥ 1.5 means the stock is trading at least 50% more volume than normal.
- Strong price moves with elevated volume suggest genuine interest and momentum, which better fits the notion of “top-performing” today, rather than random or easily reversible blips.
Today’s Price Change ≥ +7%
- Purpose: Directly capture strong positive performance in today’s session.
- Rationale:
- A 7% or higher gain in a single day is a substantial move for most established stocks and aligns with what most people mean by “top-performing.”
- This ensures the list is focused on clear winners for the day, not marginal outperformers.
Why Results Match “Today’s Top-Performing Stocks”
- The price change ≥ 7% filter directly targets strong positive performance today.
- The relative volume and volume filters ensure those moves are backed by meaningful trading activity, not thin, easily manipulated markets.
- The market cap and price range filters keep the list in a zone that’s more relevant and investable for most users, rather than dominated by micro-cap penny stocks whose extreme moves are less representative of quality performance.
Taken together, these filters surface stocks that are:
- Up strongly today,
- Experiencing unusual interest (high relative volume),
- Tradable and reasonably established companies,
which matches a practical, investor-focused definition of “today’s top-performing stocks.”
This list is generated based on data from one or more third party data providers. It is provided for informational purposes only by Intellectia.AI, and is not investment advice or a recommendation. Intellectia does not make any warranty or guarantee relating to the accuracy, timeliness or completeness of any third-party information, and the provision of this information does not constitute a recommendation.