Stock Market Leaders, Top-Performing IPOs Tend To Share This Common Trait

2026-02-20 13:16:20

The Stock Lists tab at the top of the Investors.com homepage features the powerful Investor’s Business Daily stock screens filled with market leaders like the IBD 50, Sector Leaders and Big Cap 20. IBD generally defines a stock market leader as a company with top-notch fundamentals and solid fund ownership that’s showing leading price performance in its industry group.

As recent initial public offering Medline (MDLN) gets ready to release its first earnings report as a publicly traded company, now’s a good time to revisit the IPO Leaders screen. It’s a great place to research new merchandise in the stock market. It can also be accessed in the Stock Lists tab.

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Medline isn’t a member of the IPO Leaders screen yet. But it’s been a strong performer since its mid-December debut at 29. The medical supplies giant cleared an IPO base on Jan. 22. The buy point was 45.50.

It makes sense to keep tabs on new issues. Companies tend to show their strongest growth in the early stages after going public. Since earnings growth is one of the main drivers of a stock’s price, it makes sense to keep an eye on these newer names.

Stock Market Leaders

The IPO Leaders screen gets updated daily at Investors.com. Nine stocks made the cut in the Feb. 19 screen, including Leaderboard stock Amer Sports (AS), which joined the model portfolio on Dec. 9. The parent company of Wilson Sporting Goods and outdoor equipment brand Arc’teryx, among others, reports earnings early Tuesday. Further, several quarters in a row of strong earnings and revenue growth help fuel a Composite Rating of 90.

Natural gas producer BKV (BKV) is another IPO Leader with earnings due early Wednesday. It’s also near all-time highs after breaking out of a seven-week consolidation. After BKV reported a 72% jump in third-quarter profit, analysts see its earnings for the fourth quarter exploding to 31 cents a share. It earned a penny a share in the year-ago quarter.

BrightSpring Rides 10-Week Line

BrightSpring Health Services (BTSG) is the third IPO Leader set to report earnings, with results due Friday before the open. The provider of home- and community-based health services has been riding its 10-week moving average higher after gapping out of a cup-with-handle base in September. Analysts expect earnings to more than quadruple this year to $1.05 a share and rise another 27% in 2026.

Finally, WaterBridge Infrastructure (WBI) doesn’t report earnings until March 16, but the provider of water management solutions to the oil-and-gas industry is setting up in a first-stage cup base. Several weekly price gains in above-average volume along the right side of the base point toward signs of institutional accumulation (1).

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