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: Lincoln National Corporation (LNC)
Every scored name in the sector, grouped by the industry it reports under.
Where analysts are moving on Financial Services
Across the 313 Financial Services names with a reading, the median forward earnings estimate is roughly unchanged — +0.7% over 90 days, in line with the market (+0.5%). Opinion is close to evenly divided — 140 up, 72 down.
Estimates implied by price ÷ forward P/E, captured together each trading day since June 2026, and outside the Bull Rankings score. 313 of 323 members carry a reading; the rest have no forward P/E to imply one from, which is normal for loss-makers. How this is measured, across the market →
Common questions
How are the best financial services stocks ranked?
Every financial services name in our US universe is scored on the Bull Rankings financial-strength model — a 0–100 read built for balance-sheet businesses from returns on equity, valuation (price-to-book or price-to-earnings), and covered income.
Why don't these use the quality-growth score?
Banks, insurers, asset managers, and REITs are balance-sheet businesses — free cash flow, ROIC, and EV/EBIT, which the quality-growth score relies on, aren't meaningful for them. They're graded instead on a financial-strength score tuned to how these businesses actually create value. It's a separate 0–100 scale and is not directly comparable to the quality-growth score on other stocks.
How often is the ranking updated?
The universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the ranking reflects the latest fundamentals and prices.
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