What is the Alpha Score?

A 0-100 composite that turns five different stock signals into one number — so you can stop juggling P/E, EPS revisions, momentum charts, and analyst ratings in your head.

The five inputs

Every Alpha Score is built from five weighted components. Each one is normalized to 0-100 inside its own peer group, so a small-cap quantum stock and a mega-cap chipmaker are graded against their own kind.

• Fundamentals (30%) — revenue growth, gross margins, free cash flow trajectory, return on capital. The bones of the business.
• Valuation (20%) — forward P/E, PEG, EV/Sales, all benchmarked to the stock's own sub-sector median. Cheap-vs-fair-vs-premium.
• Momentum (20%) — 1-month and 3-month price action, plus relative strength versus sector. Catches stocks the market is already re-rating.
• Analyst signal (15%) — consensus rating, target-price upside, EPS revision trend. The wisdom of the wallet-street crowd, weighted by direction-of-change.
• Macro / regime (15%) — adjusts the score based on whether the broader market is bullish, mixed, or bearish. A 75-score in a bear regime is more meaningful than a 75 in a melt-up.

How to read the number

The Alpha Score isn't a buy signal. It's a "homework checklist completed" signal. It tells you the stock's quantitative story is good. The qualitative judgment — does the thesis make sense to you? — is still yours.

• 80-100 — ★★★★★ Top Tier zone. All five inputs are firing. These are the names TickerMover features in the Hot List.
• 65-79 — ★★★★ Quality. Solid composite with at least one minor concern (usually valuation or momentum).
• 50-64 — ★★★ Average. Mixed signals. Often a transition stock — improving fundamentals but lagging momentum, or vice versa.
• 35-49 — ★★ Below Average. Two or more components are weakening.
• 0-34 — ★ Weak. Broad-based weakness across the score components.

Smart Score vs raw Alpha Score

You'll sometimes see two numbers — a raw Alpha Score and a Smart Score. The Smart Score is the same composite, but adjusted for the current market regime. In a bullish regime, the Smart Score tilts toward growth and momentum. In a bearish regime, it tilts toward quality, balance-sheet strength, and valuation discipline. The raw Alpha Score is regime-blind; the Smart Score adapts.

The conflict flag

Numbers can lie when they're averaged. A stock can earn a 78 Alpha Score because four components are strong — but if the fifth is screaming "danger" (insider selling spike, EPS estimate crash, margin collapse), TickerMover flags it with a caution badge and rewrites the bottom-line verdict accordingly. More on how we read each signal here.

What it doesn't capture

Alpha Score is a quantitative framework. It cannot price in: regulatory risk, executive turnover, accounting irregularities, fraud, geopolitical exposure, or anything that isn't in the public filings yet. Treat it as the starting point of your research, not the conclusion.