The best financial stocks right now, ranked.
Of the 293 investable financial stocks we score, these 25 rank highest on Ticker Nerd's factor model today — all nine factor families at once, not one metric. Every stock in P123's Finance sector, the taxonomy the rank is built on.
Every score is a percentile across the whole US universe we cover — a 92 beats 92% of it. How the model was built and blind-tested is on the methodology page; what each factor means is on the factor glossary.
| Ticker | Company | Mkt cap | Rank | 1w rank Δ | Revisions | Value | Momentum | Quality | Accruals | Issuance | Growth | Volatility | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Victory Capital Holdings, Inc. Asset Management | $6.6B | 99.7 | 0.0 | 97.5 | 75.6 | 94.0 | 87.9 | 63.3 | 87.5 | 94.5 | 82.9 | 19.4 | |
Encore Capital Group, Inc. Credit Services | $2.2B | 98.4 | 0.0 | 93.7 | 81.3 | 98.3 | 95.3 | 24.7 | 64.3 | 99.1 | 89.5 | 34.1 | |
Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. Credit Services | $4.4B | 98.3 | −0.1 | 92.3 | 93.1 | 99.4 | 91.7 | 39.4 | 99.3 | 92.4 | 2.2 | 24.9 | |
AerCap Holdings NV Rental & Leasing Services | $22.3B | 98.2 | 0.0 | 92.8 | 79.0 | 81.5 | 87.5 | 67.8 | 99.5 | 64.4 | 94.6 | 9.3 | |
OFG Bancorp Banks - Regional | $2.3B | 97.9 | −0.1 | 99.2 | 69.8 | 77.1 | 89.7 | 58.5 | 76.6 | 75.6 | 81.8 | 33.6 | |
Federated Hermes, Inc. Asset Management | $4.3B | 97.4 | −0.1 | 93.9 | 82.0 | 78.7 | 99.2 | 22.6 | 91.6 | 75.4 | 93.4 | 25.1 | |
Nasdaq, Inc. Financial Data & Stock Exchanges | $53.4B | 97.3 | +0.5 | 96.3 | 69.0 | 67.9 | 96.9 | 80.7 | 82.4 | 70.4 | 89.4 | 4.9 | |
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. Real Estate Services | $15.6B | 96.9 | 0.0 | 93.5 | 74.8 | 72.3 | 95.6 | 50.1 | 97.0 | 90.6 | 49.1 | 11.6 | |
Acadian Asset Management, Inc. Asset Management | $3.2B | 96.0 | +1.3 | 90.2 | 73.8 | 96.7 | 93.0 | 13.1 | 99.0 | 70.0 | 78.1 | 28.9 | |
Q2 Holdings, Inc. Software - Application | $3.7B | 95.4 | +0.8 | 76.8 | 55.4 | 43.4 | 93.0 | 91.5 | 94.1 | 87.3 | 71.2 | 27.2 | |
Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. Asset Management | $9.5B | 95.4 | +0.1 | 94.5 | 80.4 | 92.0 | 86.6 | 25.3 | 66.9 | 89.8 | 88.0 | 15.9 | |
First BanCorp (Puerto Rico) Banks - Regional | $4.3B | 94.2 | −0.2 | 94.9 | 41.4 | 85.0 | 94.5 | 43.9 | 94.1 | 76.5 | 63.5 | 25.3 | |
Northern Trust Corp. Asset Management | $33.6B | 93.6 | +0.2 | 95.3 | 87.9 | 95.9 | 77.5 | 30.9 | 92.9 | 51.2 | 87.6 | 6.9 | |
The Allstate Corp. Insurance - Property & Casualty | $63.2B | 93.5 | −0.8 | 81.2 | 78.4 | 78.1 | 99.4 | 20.6 | 89.2 | 94.9 | 85.4 | 4.2 | |
Ameriprise Financial, Inc. Asset Management | $50.6B | 93.5 | +0.1 | 95.9 | 88.3 | 72.0 | 83.0 | 25.0 | 80.3 | 87.0 | 89.0 | 5.2 | |
SiriusPoint Ltd. Insurance - Reinsurance | $2.9B | 93.4 | +1.3 | 61.0 | 88.4 | 83.4 | 81.2 | 30.7 | 86.1 | 98.8 | 76.4 | 30.4 | |
SLM Corp. Credit Services | $4.7B | 93.2 | −0.1 | 61.2 | 90.4 | 40.6 | 82.5 | 68.2 | 98.0 | 90.2 | 83.9 | 23.8 | |
Zions Bancorporation NA Banks - Regional | $9.6B | 92.8 | −1.0 | 79.8 | 90.6 | 78.6 | 84.4 | 54.0 | 95.3 | 82.2 | 7.9 | 15.9 | |
SEI Investments Co. Asset Management | $12.9B | 92.6 | +0.8 | 97.0 | 80.9 | 87.4 | 99.3 | 13.3 | 70.5 | 67.3 | 90.4 | 12.9 | |
State Street Corp. Asset Management | $51.0B | 92.3 | −0.1 | 97.6 | 88.1 | 97.3 | 72.3 | 19.5 | 97.0 | 50.9 | 87.6 | 5.2 | |
RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. Insurance - Reinsurance | $14.2B | 92.2 | +0.2 | 70.9 | 89.0 | 85.8 | 70.4 | 45.5 | 82.9 | 80.9 | 93.5 | 12.2 | |
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. Asset Management | $22.7B | 91.5 | −0.2 | 83.1 | 91.8 | 75.7 | 94.1 | 24.9 | 70.0 | 82.8 | 88.0 | 9.1 | |
The Charles Schwab Corp. Capital Markets | $191.1B | 91.3 | +0.8 | 91.9 | 81.7 | 77.9 | 84.0 | 18.2 | 85.2 | 83.9 | 90.9 | 1.3 | |
Newmark Group, Inc. Real Estate Services | $2.6B | 90.9 | +1.1 | 69.3 | 72.7 | 48.9 | 86.8 | 69.0 | 83.3 | 95.5 | 43.0 | 32.3 | |
First Interstate BancSystem, Inc. Banks - Regional | $3.6B | 90.5 | −1.4 | 83.5 | 59.2 | 80.5 | 58.0 | 75.1 | 96.9 | 78.5 | 21.8 | 27.8 |
Today’s snapshot only — the list rotates as the scores move. Click any ticker for its full page: rank against every factor, analyst price targets, financials and news.
What these financial stocks look like up close.
Figures for the 25 listed names, from the same data behind their stock pages.
12 of the 25 names with analyst coverage this month carry a Buy-or-better majority.
Cheapest on trailing P/E: ALL at 5.0×, RNR at 5.7× and SPNT at 6.0×.
Highest forward dividend yields: FIBK at 5.0%, TROW at 5.0% and ZION at 2.9%.
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Market Radar reports the week’s largest rank changes across roughly 4,600 US stocks and the factor behind each one. The names above will rotate as the scores move — the Radar is how you hear what changed.
Questions people ask about financial stocks.
- What are the best financial stocks right now?
- As at 19 Sept 2026, the top-ranked financial stocks on Ticker Nerd's systematic factor model are Victory Capital Holdings, Inc. (VCTR), Encore Capital Group, Inc. (ECPG), Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. (BFH). The full top 25 is the table on this page, re-ranked every trading day. A rank is general information, not personal advice.
- How does Ticker Nerd pick the best financial stocks?
- Nobody picks them. A factor model scores roughly 4,600 US stocks every trading day on families like value, momentum, quality and growth, and this page is one fixed cut of that ranking. The research process behind the model — point-in-time data from 2005, locked test windows, logged rejections — is published on the methodology page.
- Are financial stocks a good investment?
- That depends on the price paid and on your circumstances — this page is general information, not advice. What the data says as at 19 Sept 2026: of the 25 listed names with analyst coverage this month, 12 carry a Buy-or-better majority, and every rank above is a percentile across roughly 4,600 US stocks.
The same model, other cuts.
Every list reads the one ranking — the stock screener index has the complete set.