The screen: Banks, insurers, brokers, and asset managers — balance-sheet businesses the quality-growth screen can't grade, ranked instead on a financial-strength score built from returns on equity, valuation, and covered income.
How this ranking works
Financial Services companies are balance-sheet businesses — free cash flow and returns on invested capital, which our quality-growth score relies on, aren't meaningful for them. So every financial services name in our US universe is scored on a separate financial-strength model instead: a 0–100 read blending profitability (returns on equity), value (price-to-book for banks and REITs, price-to-earnings for fee-based managers), and covered income (a healthy, sustainable dividend). The table below ranks them by that score, highest first, and re-scores every trading day. This is a different scale from the quality-growth score on other stocks — it ranks financials against each other, not against the whole market.
Banks, insurers, brokers, and asset managers — balance-sheet businesses the quality-growth screen can't grade, ranked instead on a financial-strength score built from returns on equity, valuation, and covered income.
Top of the sector: Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc. (APAM)
Every scored name in the sector, grouped by the industry it reports under.
Where analysts are moving on Financial Services
Across the 318 Financial Services names with a reading, the median forward earnings estimate is roughly unchanged — +0.4% over 90 days, in line with the market (+0.3%). 131 of 318 are being revised up, 81 down.
Forward earnings estimates implied by price ÷ forward P/E, both captured at the same moment each trading day since June 2026, so a moving share price does not move these figures — only a changed forecast does. 318 of 327 members carry a reading; the rest have no forward P/E to imply one from, which is normal for loss-makers. Estimate direction is not part of the Bull Rankings score. Biggest movers across the market →
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