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The Zacks Rank Guide

The Zacks Rank Guide

Harnessing the Power of Earnings Estimate Revisions

Knowledge is power. Learn how the Zacks Rank works and how it achieves its average gain of +23.75% per year. Your confidence will soar as well as your profits.

See how to apply the Zacks Rank in your own trading, and start beating the market on your next trade.

Education Videos

Zacks Style Score

With the Zacks Style Scores, picking the best Zacks Rank stocks just got easier and much more profitable.

Academic research has proven that stocks with the best growth, value, and momentum characteristics outperform the market. That is why we have assigned individual style scores of A, B, C, D, or F to each stock.

Investor Training

Zacks Method For Trading

Learn how to use the Zacks Rank, a powerful trading advantage that will help you achieve success. With the step-by-step instructions in Zacks Method for Trading, you'll learn how to use the Zacks Rank to find stocks that outperform the market on your own. Since 1988, our proven Zacks Rank stock-rating system has more than doubled the S&P 500 with an average gain of +23.75% per year. These returns cover a period from January 1, 1988 through July 7, 2025.

Earnings ESP EducationEarnings ESP Education

Earnings ESP (Expected Surprise Prediction) is a potent tool that investors can use to select better stocks for their portfolios. Earnings season can feel like a crapshoot sometimes. Even the 'best' companies are not immune to posting a negative surprise.

But there is a way to significantly tilt the odds in your favor of being in stocks that positively surprise, and being out of stocks that negatively surprise. And that's with Zacks Earnings ESP. While nothing is 100%, our time tested Earnings ESP has 70% accuracy in predicting which stocks will positively surprise.

Additional Resources

Top 5 Valuation Secrets

Apply the secrets of the Top 5 Valuation metrics in your own trading for the most profitable results. Take advantage of these amazing statistics and other strategies in the Research Wizard.