Boring Financials Point Way to Exciting Stock Gains!

By Steve Reitmeister, Editor-in-Chief, WallStreetZen
February 6, 2025 4:27 PM UTC
Boring Financials Point Way to Exciting Stock Gains!

A couple weeks back I published this timely article to help people line their portfolio with stocks more likely to enjoy earnings beats with shares pushing higher. 

Very Loud Earnings Whispers for Your Stocks

The article focused more on the very beneficial Growth factors inside the Zen Ratings model.  Yet growth is really just telling half the story. 

The other half is the 26 different Financial factors also packed into the Zen Ratings. 

Let’s be honest…most of us didn’t become accountants for a reason. That’s because no matter much you love picking stocks…your eyes probably glaze over when considering factors like:

  • Long Term Debt to Assets
  • Current Ratio
  • Free Cash Flow
  • Return on Assets
  • Inventory Change
  • Need I go on?

Yet buried in this haystack of financial data is the needle that points to serious outperformance. 

That is especially true during earnings season as companies with better financials…are more efficient operators…and much more likely to enjoy earnings beats and soaring share prices. 

That is why we have 26 different financial factors inside of Zen Ratings. 

The best part…you don’t need to review them yourself. You just need to go to the quote pages on WallStreetZen.com to see how well the stocks stack up for based on our exclusive Financials rating. 

And yes, while you are there make sure to investigate how well they rate for Growth, Value, Momentum, Safety, Sentiment and our proprietary AI factor that points to the most timely stocks. 

What to Do Next? 

1) Review all of your stocks to make sure they make the grade with the Zen Ratings. 

Just go to WallStreetZen.com and use the search box to review your stocks 1 by 1. 

Start here >

2) Find Better Stocks. Continue your search of stock tickers on WallStreetZen.com to add more with the best overall Zen Ratings. Especially those sporting A & B for Financial strength.  

Note that later in February we will launch a suite of new tools to help make it easier to find the best stocks based upon the Zen Ratings. 

Not just the ability to screen with the ratings, but daily upgrades/downgrades, portfolio tracking with ratings, and even an industry rank showing the best stocks inside each industry. 

More details on these new Premium features to come later in February. In the meantime consider #3 below… 

3) Discover my Zen Investor portfolio where I hand pick the best stocks based on their Zen Ratings and my 44 years of investing experience. 

Currently there are 17 top Zen Rated stocks in my portfolio. 

3 of them just had tremendous earnings reports leading to immediate gains between 8% and 17% on the news!.  

Leaning on the Zen Ratings has helped the Zen Investor portfolio strongly outpace the market to start the new year and expect to keep increasing that lead in the months ahead.  

Plus on Wednesday February 5th I unveiled 2 new stock recommendations that have stellar upside potential.  

Discover the Zen Investor & My Top Stock Recommendations > 

Wishing you a world of investment success!

Steve Reitmeister…but everyone calls me Reity (pronounced “Righty”)

Editor-in-Chief of WallStreetZen

What to Do Next?

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