Time Your Decisions with the Zacks Rank

The Zacks Rank, our leading quantitative model, gives you a proven resource for effective short-term stock picking and trading. This powerful tool ranks securities into five groups from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell). Unlike many ranking systems that use past performance, the Zacks Rank is a predictive model that seeks to forecast future performance using earnings estimate revisions.

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The Zacks Rank has consistently produced excess returns.

Over the past 38 years, Zacks Rank #1 stocks had an annualized return of 23.9%, more than doubling the 11.5% return for the S&P 500.1

33%

During the Covid and post-Covid period (March 2020 - February 2022), Zacks Rank #1 stocks outperformed the S&P 500 by +33.3%, with a cumulative 86.1% return compared to the cumulative return of 52.8% for the S&P 500 during the same period.

How to use the Zacks Rank in your process.

The optimal time horizon for the Zacks Rank forecasts are 1-3 months. For this reason, many financial advisors use the Zacks Rank as a timing tool rather than for picking long term outperformers.

The Zacks Rank is ideal:

As one component in multi-factor models

To screen for new purchase candidates

As a tiebreaker among equally attractive stocks

As a tiebreaker among stocks in an industry group

For use with clients who are active traders

Improve client portfolio performance with the Zacks Rank.

The Zacks Rank can be used in Advisor Tools as an effective and efficient way to automate routine portfolio maintenance, improve performance, and remove possible "landmine" holdings.

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