10 Top-Rated Mega-Cap Stocks to Buy Now

When market volatility is high and economic uncertainty is rising, there's comfort to be found in mega-cap stocks. Stocks with market values of at least $50 billion tend to be bigger, more stable holdings. They tend to have stronger balance sheets and often pay dividends.

When it comes to finding such stocks, there's no substitute for roll-up-your-sleeves fundamental analysis. Factors such as revenue growth, earnings estimates, profit margins and debt levels are just some of a long-term investor's most important tools. Traders and tactical investors might also consider technical analysis, which attempts to divine patterns from changes in a stock's price and volume.

Then there's quantitative analysis, which takes a wide swath of fundamental, technical and other data, runs it through a mathematical model and calculates a recommendation. Quantitative analysis usually is the preserve of so-called quant funds, which guard their methods jealously. But thanks to StockReports+ from Refinitiv, we know what at least one quant model has to say.

StockReports+ combines a weighted quantitative analysis of six widely used tools: earnings (including estimate surprises and analyst recommendation changes, among other factors; fundamental analysis, which encompasses profitability, debt and dividends, among other considerations; relative valuation, which looks at measures such as price-to-sales and price-to-earnings ratios; risk, which considers magnitude of returns, volatility and other factors; price momentum, which is based on technical performance factors such as seasonality and relative strength; and insider trading, which looks at whether top corporate executives have been net buyers or sellers of their company's stock.

For mega-cap stocks, or stocks with market values of at least $50 billion, StockReports+ gives greater weight to price momentum and