The podium
The ring number is the fundamental score from each company's latest AI report on or before the cutoff.
The scores
Bars show the fundamental score out of 5 for the leading 5 companies; 46 total companies hold a rating in this cohort.
Fundamentals at the cutoff
Dated market observations pinned to 2015-12-31 — the same SEC daily dataset the company pages use, frozen on the day this list was set.
How these stocks traded
- MIDD 2026-10-12
- -0.92
- UFPI 2026-10-12
- 243.28
- ATR 2026-10-12
- 65.02
- SPY 2026-10-12
- 287.08
Historical cumulative return since January 1, 2016 for the podium companies against the S&P 500. This selection uses reports through 2015-12-31; the chart describes past prices and is not a strategy backtest.
The whole field
Every fundamental score available through 2015-12-31 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 2015-12-31 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 5 highest-rated packaging stocks entering 2016.