How is this ranking built?
Every industry list applies the same steps at its own cutoff: industry membership, the latest AI report rating on or before the cutoff, a report age limit, dated market data, then a sort by rating with ties ordered by ticker. The animation steps through them with one real example, the live cybersecurity list refreshed on October 13, 2026.
A live list's cutoff is its refresh time. A past year's list uses December 31 of the year before, and the current year's list uses the time it was generated. A Top N page shows the first N rows of its year's list and exists only when that list has at least N companies.
The podium
The ring number is the fundamental score from each company's latest AI report on or before the cutoff.
The scores
14 companies tie at the top score of 4.5; tied companies are ordered alphabetically.
Bars show the fundamental score out of 5 for the leading 12 companies; 500 total companies hold a rating in this cohort.
Fundamentals at the cutoff
Dated market observations pinned to 2017-12-29 — the same SEC daily dataset the company pages use, frozen on the day this list was set.
How these stocks traded
- ADBE 2026-10-12
- 34.01
- AMZN 2026-10-12
- 336.55
- ANET 2026-10-12
- 1,360.45
- SPY 2026-10-12
- 189.5
Historical cumulative return since January 1, 2018 for the podium companies against the S&P 500. This selection uses reports through 2017-12-31; the chart describes past prices and is not a strategy backtest.
The whole field
Every fundamental score available through 2017-12-31 for this industry, including the full selection behind the list above.
How this list is built
Scores are NexusTrade AI fundamental-report ratings on a 1–5 scale: the latest report published on or before 2017-12-31 for every currently tracked company in this selection. Industry membership reflects each company's current products-and-revenue classification, not a historical snapshot; equal scores are ordered alphabetically.
Fundamentals are dated SEC market observations frozen at publication. The current-year list can be republished as new reports arrive; past-year lists keep their original year-end cutoff.
A rating summarizes a filed report; it does not predict a stock's return. Framing: the 15 highest-rated technology stocks entering 2018.