What is a good stock to buy?

Screening Filters

1. moving_average_relationship: PriceAboveMA20

   • Purpose: Capture stocks in a short-term uptrend.
   • Rationale: A price above the 20-day moving average usually signals positive recent momentum rather than a stock that is drifting lower. For “a good stock to buy,” this helps tilt results toward names where buyers are currently in control.

2. is_index_component: GSPC, NDX (S&P 500, Nasdaq 100 members)

   • Purpose: Focus on large, well-followed US companies.
   • Rationale: S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 constituents are generally more established, liquid, and better covered by analysts. This reduces the risk of illiquid or obscure names and aligns with the idea of “good” quality US stocks.

3. list_exchange: XNYS, XNAS (NYSE & Nasdaq)

   • Purpose: Restrict to primary US exchanges.
   • Rationale: Ensures all results are US-listed stocks on major exchanges, as you requested. It excludes OTC/pink-sheet names that can be riskier and less transparent.

4. quarter_revenue_yoy_growth: min 10

   • Purpose: Require meaningful recent fundamental growth.
   • Rationale: A minimum 10% year-over-year revenue increase in the latest quarter screens for companies that are actually growing their business, not just moving on hype. This supports the idea of a “good” stock from a fundamentals perspective.

5. analyst_consensus: Strong Buy, Moderate Buy

   • Purpose: Include only stocks with broadly positive Wall Street views.
   • Rationale: A Strong/Moderate Buy consensus means most covering analysts see the stock favorably. This filter avoids names that professionals collectively rate as Hold or Sell, which is consistent with looking for solid buy candidates.

6. target_price_upside_potential: MoreAbovePrice

   • Purpose: Make sure analysts see additional upside from the current price.
   • Rationale: This ensures that consensus target prices are meaningfully higher than where the stock trades now, pointing to perceived upside potential instead of fully valued or overvalued names.

Why Results Match

• The exchange and index filters anchor you in the US market and in high-quality, liquid large caps.
• The revenue growth and analyst consensus filters ensure you see fundamentally growing companies that professionals already like.
• The price-above-20-day moving average plus upside-to-target filters bias toward stocks in an existing uptrend that still have room to run, which fits a practical definition of “a good stock to buy” right now in the US market.