What stock has highest buy ratings

Screening Filters

1. market_cap: min $2B

   • Purpose: Focus on established, liquid companies.
   • Rationale: When looking for stocks with the highest buy ratings, it’s usually more useful to compare companies that have enough analyst coverage and market relevance. Larger companies tend to have more consistent analyst attention, making the “buy rating” signal more meaningful.

2. region: US

   • Purpose: Limit the search to U.S.-listed stocks.
   • Rationale: This keeps the results aligned with the most common analyst coverage universe and makes the screen easier to interpret for a user asking generally about “stocks.”

3. list_exchange: XNYS, XNAS, XASE

   • Purpose: Restrict results to major U.S. exchanges: NYSE, Nasdaq, and NYSE American.
   • Rationale: These exchanges include the most widely followed U.S. stocks, which are more likely to have analyst ratings available and comparable buy recommendations.

4. is_optionable: True

   • Purpose: Include stocks that have listed options.
   • Rationale: Optionable stocks are typically more liquid and actively traded, which often corresponds to better market coverage and more reliable analyst consensus data.

5. analyst_consensus: Strong Buy

   • Purpose: Directly target stocks with the highest buy-type analyst sentiment.
   • Rationale: This is the most important filter for the user’s question. “Strong Buy” is the strongest positive consensus rating, so it identifies stocks with the highest concentration of buy recommendations.

6. analyst_action: Upgrade

   • Purpose: Prioritize stocks whose analyst sentiment has recently improved.
   • Rationale: An upgrade suggests analysts are becoming more bullish, which helps surface stocks that may currently be getting the most positive attention.

7. target_price_upside_potential: MoreAbovePrice

   • Purpose: Find stocks where analyst target prices imply meaningful upside from the current price.
   • Rationale: A stock with strong buy ratings is more compelling if analysts also see substantial price appreciation ahead. This filter helps ensure the “buy ratings” are backed by upside potential.

Why Results Match:

• The screen is designed to find U.S.-listed, widely followed stocks with strong analyst support.
• Strong Buy directly answers the question about the highest buy ratings.
• Upgrade and upside potential help narrow the list to names with not just positive ratings, but also recently improving sentiment and meaningful expected return.
• The market cap, exchange, and optionable filters improve the quality and relevance of the results by focusing on liquid, well-covered stocks where analyst ratings are more useful.