The best industrial stocks right now, ranked.
Of the 208 investable industrial 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 Industrials 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
EnerSys Electrical Equipment & Parts | $6.5B | 99.8 | 0.0 | 98.2 | 97.9 | 79.6 | 95.5 | 90.6 | 98.8 | 47.3 | 95.9 | 19.5 | |
The Toro Co. Tools & Accessories | $9.1B | 99.4 | +0.1 | 88.8 | 89.6 | 78.9 | 91.7 | 90.6 | 95.9 | 61.4 | 87.0 | 16.3 | |
MYR Group, Inc. Engineering & Construction | $4.3B | 99.1 | 0.0 | 92.7 | 82.3 | 74.7 | 95.5 | 68.5 | 93.6 | 89.3 | 51.1 | 25.1 | |
Tutor Perini Corp. Engineering & Construction | $4.5B | 98.6 | −0.4 | 69.5 | 95.5 | 87.8 | 86.3 | 86.6 | 78.4 | 96.7 | 52.3 | 24.7 | |
Star Bulk Carriers Corp. Marine Shipping | $3.6B | 98.0 | 0.0 | 74.1 | 87.1 | 98.3 | 58.3 | 79.6 | 90.7 | 92.9 | 54.0 | 27.4 | |
Acuity, Inc. Electrical Equipment & Parts | $9.1B | 97.9 | +0.1 | 70.8 | 95.9 | 68.2 | 94.6 | 67.8 | 97.6 | 75.8 | 95.3 | 16.5 | |
Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. Integrated Freight & Logistics | $24.8B | 97.6 | −0.1 | 97.9 | 77.9 | 98.5 | 95.4 | 45.7 | 91.4 | 54.0 | 94.2 | 8.7 | |
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. Integrated Freight & Logistics | $22.3B | 97.6 | −1.2 | 84.3 | 63.8 | 89.5 | 86.1 | 90.3 | 98.8 | 75.1 | 51.1 | 9.4 | |
Helios Technologies, Inc. Specialty Industrial Machinery | $2.3B | 97.5 | +0.1 | 98.8 | 65.1 | 78.4 | 59.1 | 76.6 | 95.1 | 90.0 | 36.2 | 33.7 | |
Moog, Inc. Aerospace & Defense | $11.6B | 96.7 | −0.3 | 84.7 | 79.9 | 92.7 | 92.8 | 41.5 | 83.7 | 85.1 | 77.9 | 14.0 | |
nVent Electric plc Electrical Equipment & Parts | $25.5B | 96.7 | −0.1 | 99.9 | 76.0 | 94.8 | 74.4 | 41.3 | 89.7 | 81.5 | 79.0 | 8.4 | |
Nordson Corp. Specialty Industrial Machinery | $17.4B | 96.4 | +0.5 | 99.1 | 48.3 | 89.0 | 78.6 | 68.2 | 96.7 | 67.4 | 89.1 | 10.9 | |
Argan, Inc. Engineering & Construction | $5.5B | 96.2 | −0.3 | 90.9 | 77.2 | 83.2 | 94.9 | 87.1 | 41.6 | 70.9 | 75.4 | 21.8 | |
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corp. Pollution & Treatment Controls | $7.6B | 96.0 | −0.1 | 95.9 | 63.0 | 64.5 | 93.4 | 64.6 | 83.5 | 76.1 | 85.6 | 18.0 | |
Lockheed Martin Corp. Aerospace & Defense | $124.5B | 95.7 | −0.1 | 75.9 | 96.7 | 65.3 | 79.4 | 64.5 | 93.8 | 81.6 | 99.5 | 2.1 | |
Comfort Systems USA, Inc. Engineering & Construction | $58.2B | 95.6 | −0.3 | 98.6 | 60.3 | 89.2 | 99.0 | 65.6 | 62.7 | 90.5 | 49.9 | 4.6 | |
Gates Industrial Corp. Ltd. Specialty Industrial Machinery | $6.5B | 95.6 | −0.5 | 84.2 | 94.1 | 60.7 | 83.8 | 51.2 | 92.3 | 71.2 | 90.5 | 19.5 | |
RTX Corp. Aerospace & Defense | $260.4B | 95.5 | +0.5 | 95.9 | 84.0 | 82.0 | 75.8 | 66.3 | 90.9 | 51.5 | 97.8 | 0.9 | |
Matson, Inc. Marine Shipping | $7.3B | 95.5 | −0.1 | 96.8 | 70.8 | 95.0 | 93.9 | 49.5 | 99.5 | 34.0 | 75.1 | 18.4 | |
Proto Labs, Inc. Metal Fabrication | $2.1B | 95.3 | −0.7 | 99.5 | 40.7 | 98.0 | 72.6 | 74.3 | 79.6 | 79.7 | 25.8 | 35.0 | |
Kirby Corp. Marine Shipping | $7.5B | 95.0 | +0.9 | 87.6 | 77.0 | 82.7 | 81.8 | 66.7 | 95.6 | 48.8 | 75.7 | 18.1 | |
Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. Industrial Distribution | $12.1B | 94.6 | −0.1 | 91.8 | 57.5 | 88.6 | 88.8 | 59.9 | 98.7 | 51.3 | 82.4 | 13.6 | |
General Dynamics Corp. Aerospace & Defense | $95.5B | 94.2 | −0.1 | 90.7 | 94.4 | 71.9 | 79.6 | 68.3 | 84.8 | 47.1 | 99.4 | 2.7 | |
Franklin Electric Co., Inc. Specialty Industrial Machinery | $4.3B | 94.1 | −0.4 | 92.8 | 83.5 | 55.8 | 83.3 | 50.2 | 92.1 | 58.5 | 91.9 | 25.4 | |
MSA Safety, Inc. Security & Protection Services | $7.0B | 93.4 | −0.4 | 80.8 | 79.4 | 68.5 | 93.6 | 49.2 | 94.4 | 57.8 | 91.4 | 18.8 |
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 industrial stocks look like up close.
Figures for the 25 listed names, from the same data behind their stock pages.
18 of the 25 names with analyst coverage this month carry a Buy-or-better majority.
Cheapest on trailing P/E: SBLK at 12.6×, MATX at 15.7× and GTES at 18.2×.
Highest forward dividend yields: SBLK at 11.2%, LMT at 2.6% and GD at 1.8%.
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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 industrial stocks.
- What are the best industrial stocks right now?
- As at 19 Sept 2026, the top-ranked industrial stocks on Ticker Nerd's systematic factor model are EnerSys (ENS), The Toro Co. (TTC), MYR Group, Inc. (MYRG). 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 industrial 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 industrial 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, 18 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.