What this list measures — and what it doesn't

This list ranks stocks by the largest improvement in their AIQ composite score — the 0-100 signal that combines momentum, valuation, quality, and risk. It is explicitly not a list of the biggest price gainers, and it is not a claim that these companies' fundamentals improved this week. A stock can appear here because its momentum firmed while its valuation stretch eased, with no price fireworks at all.

Composite-score improvement is a broader signal than any single factor moving: it means the overall balance of evidence shifted in the stock's favor across multiple dimensions at once. In practice, multi-factor improvement has a better hit rate than single-factor spikes, because it is harder for one noisy input to produce it.

How to use this list

The most useful pattern to look for is a stock whose score improvement is persistent — appearing here or trending upward across several sessions — and whose starting score was already respectable (60+). That combination, improvement stacked on strength, is historically where composite signals are most predictive. Improvement from a very low base (a score going from 25 to 34) is real but usually reflects a bad situation becoming less bad, which is a different investment case entirely.

FAQ

Why did a stock appear here without a big price move?

Because the AIQ score is not price. Score inputs include trend quality, volume patterns, valuation ratios, earnings consistency, and volatility behavior. Several of these can improve while price moves sideways — which is often precisely the setup that precedes the price move rather than following it.

How fresh is the data?

Scores recompute every market day; this list compares the latest daily snapshot with the prior one. The snapshot date is shown in the Pulse block at the top of the page, and the ranking never mixes dates.