The StockRank™ is Stockopedia's proprietary Ranking System. Every morning, before the markets open, we perform over 42 million computations to compile insights on shares across 38 countries. These computations are distilled down into a single, easy-to-understand rating we call the StockRank™:

Since launching the StockRank™ in 2013; the average performance of stocks ranked 90-100 was +147% whilst stocks ranked 0-10 lost -56%

Our RiskRating system helps you quickly identify the upside & downside risk for any stock. By assessing the annualised price volatility we can classify stocks into 5 categories:

Conservative Less than 25%

Balanced 25%-35%

Adventurous 35-45%

Speculative 45-70%

Highly Speculative Over 70%

There is much evidence that small caps, on average, outperform large caps over the long term, though in recent decades this has become more disputed. Many academic papers have shown that micro-caps, the very smallest companies, tend to be priced like ‘Lottery Tickets’ and have negative aggregate returns. As small caps and large caps can outperform at different times, diversification across size groups is often highly recommended.

Based on the same algorithms used to create our StockRank™; the StockRank Style goes a step further to categorise stocks based on their strengths in weaknesses in 3 areas. Quality, Value & Momentum - the 3 driving forces behind historically excellent returns.

We classify the market into 10 defined Sectors: Financials, Basic Materials, Energy, Consumer Defensive, Consumer Cyclical, Telecoms, Utilities, Healthcare, Industrials and Technology. These each belong to 1 of 3 Super Sectors we call Cyclicals, Defensives and Sensitives.

Cyclicals

Basic Materials

Consumer Cyclicals

Financials

Defensives

Consumer Defensives

Healthcare

Utilities

Sensitives

Telecoms

Energy

Industrials

Technology