Top StockRanks: where are the opportunities today?

In a recent piece in the Academy, I went back to basics and explained how – and why – the StockRanks can be a useful tool for finding good shares and building a portfolio.
This week I’m going to follow this up with a look at some of the top-ranked stocks in the UK market right now. My aim is to highlight possible opportunities, but also to show how the StockRanks sometimes highlight shares that I might not normally consider.
This is one of the big advantages of a systematic approach, in my view – it allows us to see past blind spots and any inbuilt bias, and view the market more objectively.
Although past performance is not a guide to future returns, the StockRanks’ track record over the last decade suggests that this approach has some merit:

StockRanks: top sectors
StockRanks are designed to be applied to individual stocks. But Stockopedia also provides the average StockRanks for economic sectors and industry groups. I like to keep an eye on these numbers as I find they sometimes highlight a concentration of high-ranked stocks in a particular part of...