Momentum Screener
Ranks every tracked ticker by trailing 12-month price return — the classic momentum factor (Jegadeesh & Titman, 1993), computed fresh from today's real price data.
In a 9-year rolling backtest across this site's 195-stock tracked universe (2017-2026, annual rebalance), a top-50 momentum basket returned +414% vs. the S&P 500's +263% over the same period — the largest gap of five well-known screening strategies tested, including this site's own Buffett Quality screen (+273%). Read the caveats before treating that as a proven edge. Not investment advice.
Screener
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Investment Calculator
Splits a dollar amount across the top N tickers currently shown above (respecting your search/filter selections and current sort order is ignored — always uses Momentum Rank), using one of the weighting schemes tested in this site's backtests. Not investment advice — see the caveats below the results.
What "momentum" means here
Trailing 12-month return: today's price divided by the price roughly a year ago, minus one. Nothing more — no smoothing, no relative-strength formula, no parameter tuning. This is the same fixed, published definition used in the backtest above, applied mechanically to today's data so the live ranking can't quietly drift from what was tested.
Read this before trusting a rank
- Momentum is a trend-following signal, not a quality or value signal. A stock can rank #1 here and fail every rule on the Buffett Screener — momentum says nothing about balance-sheet health or valuation.
- Momentum strategies carry known crash risk. Academic studies document sharp, sudden reversals ("momentum crashes") after market turning points — a smooth backtest sampled once a year can miss this entirely if a crash-and-recovery happens between two annual snapshots (as 2020 did in our own backtest window).
- One 9-year backtest on a pre-selected 195-stock universe is not proof of a persistent edge — it's one look at how a well-known rule happened to perform, here, once. Treat the outperformance figure above as a lead worth watching, not a guarantee.
- Rebalancing annually realizes gains every year (a real tax cost outside a sheltered account) that a buy-and-hold index position doesn't trigger — not reflected in the backtest number above.
- Data comes from Yahoo Finance via an unofficial API — free, generally reliable, but with no uptime guarantee and occasional gaps for individual tickers.
- Not investment advice. This is a mechanical trend screen, not a recommendation to buy or sell anything.