The top 1,000 publicly traded American companies are included in the Russell 1000 Index, a market capitalization-weighted index. In the United States, it represents more than 92 percent of the market capitalization (market cap) of all publicly traded equities. It is therefore thought of as a leading indicator for large-cap investment. The largest companies in the index include Johnson & Johnson, The Walt Disney Co., and Apple Inc. It is noteworthy that the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, along with related sanctions and geopolitical activities, has had a significant impact on a number of market sectors. Energy stock prices have significantly increased in recent weeks.

Best-performing stocks

Value investing is a factor-based investment strategy in which you choose stocks that, in your opinion, are trading below their true worth. Typically, you do this by comparing the stock’s price to one or more key company metrics. A popular value statistic is the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio. Value investors believe that if a company’s stock price is low in comparison to its intrinsic value (in this case, as determined by its P/E ratio), the price will rise faster than other stock prices as the price catches up to the company’s value. One of the lowest 12-month trailing P/E ratios can be found for these stocks.

Top growth stocks

According to a growth model that equally weights companies’ most recent quarterly YOY percentage revenue growth and quarterly YOY earnings per share (EPS) growth, these stocks are the best ones. Profitability and sales are key factors in a company’s success. As a result, basing an organization’s evaluation solely on one growth indicator exposes it to accounting irregularities of the quarter, which could make one or both of the statistics inaccurately reflect the company as a whole (due to things like tax law changes or restructuring charges). Companies with a quarterly EPS or sales increase of more than 2,500 percent were classified as outliers.

Stocks with the most momentum

A factor-based investment strategy called momentum investing entails purchasing a stock whose price has increased more quickly than the market as a whole. Momentum investors believe that stocks that have outperformed the market will frequently continue to do so because the factors that made them successful won’t change overnight. Additionally, additional investors frequently purchased the stock in order to benefit from its outperformance, which raised its price and increased its value. The following is a list of the stocks with the best total return over the past 12 months.