The steadiest stocks in the market, ranked.
Ticker Nerd's model re-ranks roughly 4,600 US stocks every trading day, and the 1,500 big and liquid enough to trade are eligible here. These 25 score highest on its Volatility factor right now. How violently the share price moves in ordinary weeks.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Johnson & Johnson Drug Manufacturers - General | $656.3B | 85.6 | +0.1 | 47.8 | 89.4 | 95.9 | 92.1 | 61.4 | 80.6 | 53.5 | 100.0 | 0.4 | |
Paychex, Inc. Software - Application | $42.9B | 75.7 | +0.2 | 57.8 | 64.6 | 55.5 | 73.8 | 62.6 | 92.9 | 64.2 | 99.9 | 5.7 | |
Roper Technologies, Inc. Software - Application | $49.5B | 69.8 | −2.4 | 85.5 | 63.0 | 54.6 | 51.3 | 58.3 | 75.3 | 49.2 | 99.9 | 5.1 | |
Merck & Co., Inc. Drug Manufacturers - General | $364.7B | 87.1 | +2.2 | 68.7 | 99.1 | 94.7 | 96.7 | 76.3 | 43.2 | 37.6 | 99.9 | 0.6 | |
United Therapeutics Corp. Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic | $24.0B | 77.2 | −5.8 | 43.8 | 98.6 | 82.8 | 89.3 | 42.1 | 82.9 | 41.3 | 99.8 | 8.6 | |
W.W. Grainger, Inc. Industrial Distribution | $68.4B | 82.2 | +8.0 | 96.8 | 48.8 | 89.7 | 88.6 | 28.3 | 57.2 | 69.9 | 99.8 | 3.9 | |
General Dynamics Corp. Aerospace & Defense | $96.4B | 93.6 | +0.4 | 95.1 | 92.9 | 73.5 | 81.0 | 62.4 | 86.5 | 43.5 | 99.8 | 2.7 | |
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Plc Biotechnology | $14.3B | 95.9 | +0.1 | 64.6 | 99.5 | 93.5 | 82.9 | 89.9 | 34.1 | 94.0 | 99.8 | 12.1 | |
Incyte Corp. Biotechnology | $23.6B | 87.9 | −3.4 | 63.4 | 97.9 | 82.7 | 95.4 | 60.7 | 71.1 | 43.8 | 99.8 | 8.8 | |
McDonald's Corp. Restaurants | $196.8B | 59.2 | −0.5 | 51.9 | 57.2 | 34.3 | 87.6 | 46.2 | 91.9 | 54.1 | 99.7 | 1.2 | |
Newmont Corp. Gold | $124.4B | 85.7 | +1.8 | 45.9 | 97.4 | 82.9 | 98.5 | 61.3 | 73.7 | 60.5 | 99.7 | 2.1 | |
Abbott Laboratories Medical Devices | $197.5B | 54.5 | −2.4 | 75.0 | 81.4 | 43.2 | 71.9 | 37.7 | 36.5 | 46.8 | 99.7 | 1.2 | |
Bristol Myers Squibb Co. Drug Manufacturers - General | $128.5B | 94.7 | −1.1 | 64.0 | 99.8 | 93.3 | 93.4 | 57.7 | 90.7 | 60.5 | 99.7 | 1.9 | |
AbbVie, Inc. Drug Manufacturers - General | $509.3B | 89.3 | −4.5 | 67.1 | 89.3 | 93.6 | 90.0 | 65.6 | 37.3 | 84.7 | 99.6 | 0.4 | |
NVR, Inc. Residential Construction | $17.0B | 30.0 | −1.1 | 29.0 | 45.4 | 25.2 | 81.1 | 34.8 | 78.1 | 19.2 | 99.6 | 10.8 | |
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic | $15.9B | 96.7 | +8.7 | 84.5 | 99.1 | 64.5 | 97.0 | 43.8 | 75.6 | 91.2 | 99.5 | 11.1 | |
VeriSign, Inc. Software - Infrastructure | $28.6B | 77.8 | +2.2 | 48.3 | 58.2 | 85.2 | 81.5 | 81.7 | 88.6 | 38.6 | 99.5 | 7.5 | |
McKesson Corp. Medical Distribution | $125.5B | 92.6 | +3.1 | 88.1 | 84.3 | 81.6 | 80.1 | 56.6 | 73.7 | 67.8 | 99.5 | 2.1 | |
Nelnet, Inc. Credit Services | $4.6B | 58.4 | −1.5 | 37.4 | 67.6 | 69.4 | 72.8 | 32.1 | 97.1 | 28.3 | 99.4 | 23.8 | |
Northrop Grumman Corp. Aerospace & Defense | $75.0B | 81.0 | −1.4 | 87.7 | 91.6 | 41.9 | 90.8 | 43.9 | 83.5 | 40.1 | 99.4 | 3.7 | |
Royalty Pharma Plc Biotechnology | $38.9B | 97.6 | +11.4 | 88.6 | 85.1 | 99.4 | 73.0 | 74.0 | 77.8 | 70.3 | 99.4 | 5.9 | |
RTX Corp. Aerospace & Defense | $257.6B | 93.2 | −1.5 | 97.6 | 76.5 | 86.4 | 75.3 | 55.5 | 85.4 | 57.1 | 99.4 | 0.8 | |
Medtronic Plc Medical Devices | $134.4B | 88.5 | +0.3 | 75.4 | 91.6 | 65.0 | 74.3 | 57.4 | 85.6 | 69.8 | 99.4 | 1.9 | |
Yum! Brands, Inc. Restaurants | $46.1B | 72.5 | +20.8 | 41.1 | 58.7 | 67.9 | 91.5 | 24.4 | 98.5 | 86.2 | 99.3 | 5.3 | |
Union Pacific Corp. Railroads | $177.0B | 86.5 | −1.2 | 88.6 | 52.0 | 80.3 | 92.2 | 51.1 | 89.2 | 49.3 | 99.3 | 1.4 |
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 low-volatility stocks look like up close.
Figures for the 25 listed names, from the same data behind their stock pages.
17 of the 25 names with analyst coverage this month carry a Buy-or-better majority.
Cheapest on trailing P/E: YUM at 13.4×, NEM at 13.9× and BMY at 14.0×.
Highest forward dividend yields: BMY at 4.0%, PAYX at 4.0% and MDT at 2.7%.
This page is one list. Monday covers the whole market.
The names above rotate as the scores move. The Radar is how you hear what changed.
- Market Radar, every Monday: the week's biggest rank moves across ~4,600 US stocks, and the reason for each.
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Questions people ask about low-volatility stocks.
- What are the best low-volatility stocks right now?
- As at 5 Nov 2026, the top-ranked low-volatility stocks on Ticker Nerd's systematic factor model are Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Paychex, Inc. (PAYX), Roper Technologies, Inc. (ROP). 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 low-volatility 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 low-volatility 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 5 Nov 2026: of the 25 listed names with analyst coverage this month, 17 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.