5 Top Stocks With Strong Relative Price Strength Signals

Geopolitical risks, inflation concerns and seasonal weakness may keep volatility elevated. Still, solid earnings and broader market participation support a mildly bullish view. In this setting, relative price strength can be a useful strategy for identifying stocks and sectors that continue to outperform the broader market.

At this stage, investors would be wise to consider companies such as Remitly Global RELY, Par Pacific Holdings PARR, Sandisk Corporation SNDK, Dell Technologies Inc. DELL and National Energy Services Reunited NESR.

Relative Price Strength Strategy

Earnings growth and valuation multiples are indeed important for investors to determine a stock's ability to offer considerable returns. However, these are also essential for determining whether a stock’s price performance is better than its peers or the industry average.

If a stock’s performance is lacking that of the broader groups, despite impressive earnings growth or valuation multiples, then something must be wrong.

It’s always advisable to stay away from these stocks and bet on those that are outperforming their respective industry or benchmark. This is because betting on a winner always proves to be lucrative.

Then again, it is imperative that you determine whether or not an investment has relevant upside potential when considering stocks with significant relative price strength. Stocks delivering better than the S&P 500 for 1 to 3 months, at least, and having solid fundamentals, indicate room for growth and the best way to go about this strategy.

Finally, it is crucial to find out whether analysts are optimistic about the upcoming earnings of these companies. In order to do this, we have added positive estimate revisions for the current quarter’s (Q1) earnings to our screen. When a stock undergoes an upward revision, it leads to additional price gains.

Screening Parameters

Relative % Price change – 12 weeks greater than 0

Relative % Price change – 4 weeks greater than 0

Relative % Price change – 1 week greater than 0

(We have considered those stocks that have been outperforming the S&P 500 over the last 12 weeks, four weeks and one week.)

% Change (Q1) Est. over 4 Weeks greater than 0: Positive current-quarter estimate revisions over the last four weeks.

Zacks Rank equal to 1: Only Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) stocks — that have returned more than 26% annually over the last 26 years and surpassed the S&P 500 in 23 of the last 26 years — can get through. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.

Current Price greater than or equal to $5 and Average 20-day Volume greater than or equal to 50,000: A minimum price of $5 is a good standard to screen low-priced stocks, while a high trading volume would imply adequate liquidity.

VGM Score less than or equal to B: Our research shows that stocks with a VGM Score of A or B, when combined with a Zacks Rank #1 or 2 (Buy), offer the best upside potential.

Here are five of the 26 stocks that made it through the screen:

Remitly Global: Seattle, WA-based Remitly Global is a mobile-first platform that helps immigrants send money across borders. Operating in more than 175 countries, it supports millions of customers and is expanding beyond remittances into broader cross-border financial services for individuals and businesses. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2026 earnings of the company indicates 390.6% growth. RELY has a VGM Score of B.

The firm has a market capitalization of around $5.6 billion. Notably, over the past 60 days, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for Remitly Global’s 2026 earnings has gone up 13.8%. RELY’s shares have gained 39.5% in a year.

Par Pacific Holdings: Par Pacific is an integrated energy company that produces conventional and renewable fuels across the western United States. Its operations combine refining, logistics and fuel retailing, supported by a broad transportation and storage network. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2026 earnings of Par Pacific indicates 182.1% growth. PARR has a VGM Score of A.

Over the past 60 days, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for Par Pacific’s 2026 earnings has moved up 36.7%. The company has a market capitalization of $4 billion. PARR shares have gone up 173% in a year.

Sandisk: Based in Milpitas, CA, it is a leading global provider of NAND-based flash storage solutions, offering memory products for consumer devices, mobile, PCs and data-center applications with strong, widely recognized brands. Sandisk has a market capitalization of $243 billion. It has a VGM Score of B.

Notably, over the past 60 days, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for Sandisk’s fiscal 2027 earnings has gone up 17.1%. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for fiscal 2027 earnings of SNDK indicates 200.9% growth. Sandisk shares have surged over 3,900% in a year.

Dell Technologies: Based in Round Rock, TX, Dell Technologies is a leading provider of servers, storage and PCs. The company has a market capitalization of $318.1 billion. Dell Technologies has a VGM Score of B.

The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the company’s fiscal 2027 earnings per share indicates 86% year-over-year growth. Del Technologies beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate for earnings in each of the last four quarters. It has a trailing four-quarter earnings surprise of roughly 18.7%, on average. The firm’s shares are up 254.9% in a year.

National Energy Services Reunited: It is a Houston-based oilfield services company focused mainly on the Middle East and North Africa. National Energy Services’ expected EPS growth rate for three to five years is currently 58.3%, which compares favorably with the industry's growth rate of 31.5%. NESR has a VGM Score of A.

Over the past 60 days, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for National Energy Services’ 2026 earnings has moved up 8.3%. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2026 earnings indicates 122% growth. NESR shares have gained 390.9% in a year.

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