Stock Ratings

A breakdown of Boosted.ai's proprietary stock-rating system.

Boosted.ai’s proprietary stock rating is given based on how stocks are expected to perform relative to all the other stocks in a strategy’s universe. Performance is determined based on the bullish and bearish signals generated from the learned variables and patterns. 

Performant strategies will have a good spread in excess return between Quantile 1 (4-5 Star Stocks) and Quantile 5 (0-1 Star Stocks). Generally, Quantile 1 stocks are good long candidates while Quantile 5 stocks are good short candidates. 

Stock Ratings and Quantiles

  • Quantile 1 (4-5 Star) - Top 20% of stocks in the universe.
  • Quantile 2 (3-4 Star) - Top 40% of stocks in the universe.
  • Quantile 3 (2-3 Star) - Average stocks in the universe.
  • Quantile 4 (1-2 Star) - Bottom 40% of stocks in the universe.
  • Quantile 5 (0-1 Star) - Bottom 20% of stocks in the universe.