It doesn't matter your age or experience: taking full advantage of the stock market and investing with confidence are common goals for all investors.
Many investors also have a go-to methodology that helps guide their buy and sell decisions. One way to find winning stocks based on your preferred way of investing is to use the Zacks Style Scores, which are indicators that rate stocks based on three widely-followed investing types: value, growth, and momentum.
Is This 1 Momentum Stock a Screaming Buy Right Now?
Momentum investors, who live by the saying "the trend is your friend," are most interested in taking advantage of upward or downward trends in a stock's price or earnings outlook. Utilizing one-week price change and the monthly percentage change in earnings estimates, among other factors, the Momentum Style Score can help determine favorable times to buy high-momentum stocks.
Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT)
North Bethesda, MD-based Federal Realty is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns, manages, develops and redevelops premium retail and mixed-use properties in the United States. The assets — community and neighborhood shopping centers and mixed-use properties — are mainly concentrated over strategically selected metropolitan markets in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the nation, California and South Florida. Federal Realty’s retail properties are anchored by supermarkets, drug stores or high-volume, value-oriented retailers, which provide consumer necessities.
FRT sits at a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), holds a Momentum Style Score of A, and has a VGM Score of B. The stock is up 2.3% and up 5% over the past one-week and four-week period, respectively, and Federal Realty Investment Trust has lost 5.4% in the last one-year period as well. Additionally, an average of 720,968.38 shares were traded over the last 20 trading sessions.
Momentum investors also pay close attention to a company's earnings. For FRT, one analyst revised their earnings estimate upwards in the last 60 days, and the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0 to $7.16 per share for 2025. FRT boasts an average earnings surprise of 0.2%.
With strong earnings growth, a good Zacks Rank, and top-tier Momentum and VGM Style Scores, investors should think about adding FRT to their portfolios.
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