10 Top-Rated Mid-Cap Stocks to Buy Now
When chosen wisely, mid-cap stocks can offer outsize growth potential and stability. Like their small-cap cousins, mid-caps - typically stocks with market values of roughly $2 billion to $10 billion, but some systems allow up to $20 billion - have ample room to grow. On the other hand, like large-cap firms, they tend to have more balance sheet strength and a surer footing in their respective industries.
When it comes to finding this happy middle of risk vs. reward, investors can lean on quantitative analysis. QA takes a wide swath of fundamental, technical and other data, runs it through a mathematical model and calculates a recommendation. This 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 factors: 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.
The result is a score from 1-10 (10 being the most positive), then certain factor scores are weighted to spit out an "optimized score" that has shown to be the best predictor of future returns.
It's a lot to digest. But these are the top 10 mid-cap stocks to buy right now, based off their high marks from quantitative analysis by StockReports+. They all have earned
