Strong buy stocks: the Street's favourites, ranked by our model.
Only 18 stocks clear the bar today — all of them are below, ordered by the model. Stocks with at least five covering analysts whose average rating this month sits in the Strong Buy band — a bar few names clear, which is the point. Ordered by our own rank.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nexxen International Ltd. Advertising Agencies | $583.4M | 90.4 | −5.5 | 57.8 | 95.8 | 61.7 | 92.3 | 86.2 | 78.1 | 23.7 | 72.2 | 52.0 | |
LendingTree, Inc. Financial Conglomerates | $457.5M | 85.3 | +1.2 | 36.2 | 95.6 | 61.2 | 94.9 | 28.4 | 82.7 | 98.1 | 39.1 | 55.0 | |
Grindr, Inc. Software - Application | $2.8B | 84.7 | −0.9 | 61.4 | 71.6 | 37.1 | 96.6 | 80.7 | 42.5 | 90.7 | 86.4 | 32.2 | |
National Energy Services Reunited Corp. Oil & Gas Equipment & Services | $3.7B | 82.9 | +8.3 | 95.3 | 34.7 | 99.7 | 54.1 | 75.8 | 76.0 | 55.2 | 27.4 | 28.4 | |
First Business Financial Services, Inc. Banks - Regional | $594.7M | 80.7 | +0.8 | 92.6 | 70.4 | 79.9 | 80.7 | 20.0 | 44.4 | 66.6 | 38.8 | 51.8 | |
Vinci Compass Investments Ltd. Asset Management | $602.7M | 69.1 | +2.0 | 50.1 | 90.0 | 57.4 | 79.9 | 13.0 | 22.2 | 97.2 | 89.8 | 51.5 | |
Slide Insurance Holdings, Inc. Insurance - Property & Casualty | $2.5B | 62.3 | −1.2 | 87.3 | 80.9 | 54.8 | 78.8 | 13.2 | 64.1 | 47.8 | 7.2 | 33.5 | |
Jefferson Capital, Inc. Credit Services | $1.4B | 61.6 | +23.9 | 88.9 | 79.8 | 67.1 | 74.1 | 15.3 | 18.9 | 57.2 | 35.9 | 41.5 | |
CorMedix, Inc. Biotechnology | $590.7M | 58.6 | −8.5 | 45.5 | 99.5 | 35.9 | 91.4 | 27.0 | 11.7 | 88.3 | 43.4 | 51.9 | |
Integra Resources Corp. Other Precious Metals & Mining | $566.4M | 54.3 | −5.0 | 31.5 | 89.2 | 52.2 | 80.5 | 57.4 | 23.7 | 49.3 | 59.2 | 52.3 | |
American Integrity Insurance Group, Inc. Insurance - Property & Casualty | $469.8M | 44.1 | +16.0 | 85.8 | 83.8 | 54.1 | 75.4 | 12.4 | 19.1 | 16.0 | 9.3 | 54.7 | |
Gold Royalty Corp. Gold | $724.7M | 35.8 | −0.3 | 36.0 | 52.7 | 52.9 | 35.8 | 22.8 | 62.8 | 67.9 | 35.4 | 49.3 | |
Ivanhoe Electric, Inc. Copper | $1.6B | 19.2 | −8.1 | 49.4 | 24.9 | 32.4 | 44.5 | 13.6 | 64.2 | 35.0 | 21.8 | 38.9 | |
AEVEX Corp. Aerospace & Defense | $2.6B | 11.0 | +5.3 | 85.2 | 26.8 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 7.7 | 49.9 | 32.0 | 5.6 | 33.2 | |
Contango Silver & Gold, Inc. Gold | $653.3M | 8.9 | −3.1 | 27.0 | 26.0 | 30.4 | 31.5 | 16.5 | 47.9 | 9.1 | 41.5 | 50.5 | |
ERock, Inc. Specialty Industrial Machinery | $805.5M | 0.7 | +0.5 | 36.5 | 4.6 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 5.0 | 2.2 | 48.1 | |
EagleRock Land LLC Oil & Gas Equipment & Services | $3.3B | 0.5 | — | 39.5 | 4.0 | 7.8 | 0.8 | 7.7 | 14.9 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 29.7 | |
Sinda Ltd. Other Precious Metals & Mining | $2.6B | 0.2 | −0.1 | 29.3 | 3.5 | 6.1 | 1.9 | 7.7 | 8.6 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 32.9 |
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 strong buy stocks look like up close.
Figures for the 18 listed names, from the same data behind their stock pages.
18 of the 18 names with analyst coverage this month carry a Buy-or-better majority.
Cheapest on trailing P/E: TREE at 2.5×, CRMD at 3.5× and JCAP at 4.1×.
Highest forward dividend yields: VINP at 7.1%, JCAP at 4.0% and FBIZ at 1.9%.
This page is one list. Monday covers the whole market.
Computed off the Friday close and sent before the US open.
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 strong buy stocks.
- What are the best strong buy stocks right now?
- As at 15 Aug 2026, the top-ranked strong buy stocks on Ticker Nerd's systematic factor model are Nexxen International Ltd. (NEXN), LendingTree, Inc. (TREE), Grindr, Inc. (GRND). The full top 18 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 strong buy 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 strong buy 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 15 Aug 2026: of the 18 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.