Stocks in the HQ universe where something concrete happened: a large insider purchase in the last 60 days, a strong HQ Score after a big drop, or earnings in the next 14 days. Nothing here guarantees a profit. It tells you where to dig first.
The typical (median) stock in each theme, so one extreme name can't distort the picture. Ranked best to worst for the chosen metric.
All themes on every metric at once. Green is the best theme in the column, red the worst.
A checklist score built from the HQ analysis templates: quality first, then growth, price, balance sheet, what insiders are doing, and what analysts expect. It reads the published numbers. It does not predict the share price and it does not read the news.
Open-market buys (green ▲) and sells (red ▼) by officers and directors from SEC Form 4 filings, plotted on the share price. Bigger markers mean bigger trades. Option exercises and gifts are left out.
Net dollars bought minus sold by insiders in each stock in the research log. Blue bars are net buying, red net selling.
The largest open-market purchases filed in the last month across all US stocks. Highlighted rows are stocks in the HQ. "10%" means a big outside shareholder rather than an executive.
Disclosed stock trades per member of Congress ( politicians tracked: every current member with 100+ filed trades, plus notable names and the President, who is in the profile picker below). Blue is buys, red sells. Click a bar to open that person.
Stocks bought by the most different politicians. Several independent buyers mean more than one big trade.
Amounts are reported as ranges, so values are range midpoints. ▲ bought, ▼ sold. "Excess return" is how the stock did against the S&P 500 since the trade.
Newest disclosures first, across everyone tracked. Filed is the day it became public; traded is when it actually happened.
Any Member of Congress who bought or sold a stock in the research log.
Profitable companies the screen found cheap and out of favour, then researched one by one: why the market dislikes each, why that might be wrong, what would prove it right, and the deals and catalysts that could change the story. These are research leads, not buy signals. Each is logged with the price when flagged so we can track how the calls do.
Every screened stock. Up means a better business (HQ Score), right means cheaper than its own sector (Value gap). The top-right corner is what we're hunting: great businesses at low prices. Rings mark the ignored-gem candidates.
Every stock that passed all four tests. Profitable: operating margin 15%+, return on capital 12%+, real free cash flow, manageable debt. Cheap: cheaper than 60%+ of sector peers. Out of favour: down 15%+ in a year, heavily shorted, Hold-rated, or on a P/E 30% below its sector. Still intact: sales not shrinking and margins not collapsing.
The five best-scoring stocks in each sector for the region picked above. US UK EU mark where it trades on Trading 212. Buying a London or European listing in its own currency avoids the FX fee on US shares.
Computed from the numbers below. Each line names what stands out and why it matters.
Sends this comparison's numbers and your research notes to Claude for a bull/bear read. Uses your Claude account. Not financial advice.
Every line starts at 0% so different share prices compare fairly. The grey line is the S&P 500 (SPY): above it means the stock beat the market.
The comp table analysts build before any call. Green marks the best in the row among the picks and red the worst. "Best" depends on the metric: lower P/E is better, higher margin is better.
Forward P/E against next-year revenue growth for every stock in the HQ. Below the PEG 1 line you're paying less than one turn of earnings per point of growth, which is cheap. Triangles are off the chart; hover for the real value.
Where each pick ranks on the factors quant desks screen on. 100 = best in the HQ universe, 0 = worst.
Bar spans the lowest to highest analyst target, the dot is the median. Left of the 0 line means analysts see downside. A wide bar means the Street disagrees.
Share of covering analysts at each rating. Watch for the Hold slice growing over time; downgrades usually show up there first.
Is growth speeding up or slowing down? Direction matters more than level: a stock growing 40% but slowing often falls, one growing 15% and accelerating often rises.
Cents of operating profit per dollar of sales. Rising margins signal operating leverage and pricing power.
Each stock on its own scale, so read the shape rather than comparing bar heights across charts.
How far each stock sat below its prior high at every point in the range. Deep, long valleys are the pain you'd have had to sit through.
1.0 means they move in lockstep, so owning both adds little diversification. Below 0.5 means they genuinely move differently.
Candles: green closed higher than it opened, red lower. SMA 50 crossing above SMA 200 is a "golden cross", below is a "death cross". RSI above 70 is overbought, below 30 oversold. MACD crossing above its signal line is bullish momentum.
Every stock with a verdict in the research log, with the price move since the date of the call. Moat scores rate five kinds of competitive advantage from 0 to 3. Open a card to compare it.
Stock Research HQ studies stocks the way an equity analyst would. It screens about 1,300 companies across the US, UK and Europe, compares any of them side by side, tracks what company insiders and members of Congress are trading, and keeps a public log of every research call with the price on the day it was made, so the track record can't be edited after the fact.
Every stock is scored on the same published rules. The score reads reported numbers only; it doesn't predict prices or read the news.
Educational research, not financial advice, and not a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Verdicts in the Research log are the author's personal research notes. The author may hold positions in securities discussed on this site. Data comes from third-party public sources and may be delayed or wrong, so check primary sources before relying on any figure.