Momentum leaders · current
US momentum leaders — September 2026
As of 18 September 2026
HOWL is up 182.4% over three months, BRR 150.7%, and ASST 102.8%. They do not share a clear sector story: ASST is in financial services, while HOWL and BRR have unknown sector classifications. Leadership appears narrow rather than broad, with 37.0% of stocks above their 200-EMA and deteriorating in a risk-off regime as of 2026-09-18.
Strive, Inc.'s bitcoin-treasury premium thesis depends on increasing bitcoin per diluted common share. A company-reported year-to-date Bitcoin…
Forward Industries' Solana treasury re-rating requires growing tokens per share and a verified recovery to net asset value. Updated disclosure…
Alvotech's recovery prices in Q4 2026 FDA approvals after the Reykjavik inspection closure announced on 2026-07-29. AVT05 and AVT06 approvals…
Agentic-AI software leg: the 2026-08-05 Bristol Myers Squibb agreement to deploy Bunsen at scale landed with a double beat (Q2 revenue $58.889M vs…
Strategy Inc.'s bitcoin accumulation thesis needs successive purchase disclosures and STRC recovering its $100 stated amount. Those milestones…
The mix-purification leg has lost its price leg: the August bounce round-tripped from a $140.35 close on 2026-08-14 to $124.09 on 2026-08-21,…
CVR Energy’s refining thesis is that Hormuz disruption lifts reported margins above second-quarter 2026’s $9.94 per throughput barrel.…
Bionano Genomics’ clinical-adoption and reimbursement story supports a test of the $2.13 annual high. A daily close above that level would confirm…
American Outdoor Brands’ margin recovery supports an earnings-driven rerating toward Roth Capital’s $17 target dated 2026-09-04. A daily close at…
Bullish's regulatory repricing thesis requires successful CLARITY Act cloture followed by a weekly close above $37.10 before a weekly close below…
Broken compounder with exactly one dated event: the 2026-09-09 pre-market Q2 print. Price ran $13.22 (2026-08-21) to $14.35 (2026-08-28) on no…
Vera Bradley’s September earnings rally prices in a turnaround; a weekly close above the observed $4.26 annual high before a weekly close below…
AI/HPC power-buildout re-rate is the leg being bought — the 2026-07-09 HIF deal adds up to 2 GW in Texas, lifting potential capacity toward ~4.8…
Upexi’s Solana-discount recovery requires positive audited net assets and a Nasdaq bid-price cure. The September 28 annual-report checkpoint is…
Biomea Fusion’s icovamenib thesis depends on lasting glucose control after limited treatment. COVALENT-211 must meet its placebo-controlled…
Silicon-photonics pivot re-rated the ADR ~3x, but the July blowoff to $28.96 round-tripped -26% to $21.25 in days while sell-side finally upgraded…
Summit Therapeutics’ ivonescimab thesis is that quantified survival evidence converts into US approval by 2026-11-14 before a weekly close below…
Hafnia Limited’s tanker-earnings surge supports a continuation case at its 2026-09-11 high. The 2026-11-18 results test earnings durability, while…
Titan Machinery’s farm-equipment recovery re-rating requires falling total inventory and preserved earnings guidance at its next quarterly report.…
Bloom Energy’s AI data-center power thesis now depends on earnings sustaining the September advance after index inclusion. The next quarterly…
TORM plc’s freight-earnings story supports a conditional move to Evercore ISI’s $38 target, reported on 2026-08-27. The case succeeds at a daily…
CNH Industrial's farm-equipment recovery is being priced ahead of earnings after September's analyst upgrades. The next quarterly report tests…
Caris Life Sciences’ molecular-profiling growth supports another revenue-guidance increase at the next quarterly report. Guidance above the…
Dell Technologies’ AI-server thesis requires roughly $19 billion of next-quarter revenue and infrastructure operating margin of at least 15.0%.…
Identity-security re-rating in its second, sell-side-led leg; the upgrade wave is still building nearly two months post-print — Wells Fargo lifted…
Skyworks Solutions' Qorvo merger story supports further repricing, with a weekly close above the September 18 high of $91.32 defining success. A…
SharpLink's Ether treasury discount is the recovery thesis: The Block reported a 0.84-times net asset value multiple on 2026-09-07. The case plays…
Premium-to-NAV funding engine is closed; the 2026-08-10 release shows capital flipping from coin to float — 7,391 ETH bought for $14.3M (smallest…
Legacy hereditary-cancer testing house executing a diagnostics pivot; shares +40% off the June $3.99 base as Prolaris+AI launched (May 26) and…
Draganfly's policy-led drone re-rating now has a Canadian defence contract behind it, announced on 2026-09-11. A weekly close above the historical…
Abercrombie & Fitch’s margin re-rating lacks price confirmation after the 2026-09-18 close of $135.76. Continuation requires a weekly close above…
Tempus AI's proposed Personalis acquisition supports a cancer-vaccine sequencing recovery thesis. A daily close above the August 21 reference…
Spring's binary resolved bullish: CleanSpark signed a $6.6B, 20-year Georgia data-center lease (2026-07-14) with an unnamed "global technology…
Robinhood Markets' September repricing now includes prediction-market infrastructure alongside on-chain finance. Stronger August activity and a…
New-CEO deleveraging story: Fabio Schvartsman replaced 24-year CEO Benjamin Steinbruch on 2026-09-03 and the ADR ran from $1.13 (09-01) to $1.22…
Busted-growth genomics name; the recovery off the −49% May guide-cut crash has stalled in the low-$60s, below the $74.83 200-day. The confirmed…
The AI-datacenter-landlord re-rate has stalled: TH peaked at $20.85 and has given back ~21% to $16.36 (2026-07-17) as TDR Capital affiliates…
Broken growth compounder: the age-verification rollout throttled DAUs and forced FY26 bookings guidance down to +8-12%; stock is -66% from its…
"3-mo price move" is the stock's market price change, not a FrontierPicks return.
How this board is built
Every name in the US equity universe is scored on a composite momentum score — 1-month price trend 50%, 3-month trend 20% and acceleration 30% — computed arithmetically from daily closes and ranked highest-first. No model orders the board — the ranking is arithmetic. The "3-mo price move" column is one of the three inputs to that score, weighted 20% — not the ranking itself, so rows do not descend in it. The board reflects price moves already made, not a forecast. Each covered name links to its dated research dossier — thesis, invalidation trigger, archetype and catalyst.
Past months
Each month's board is frozen when the month closes and kept unchanged — the record of what led, when.
Questions
- What are the hottest US stocks right now?
- As of 18 September 2026, the US names with the strongest composite momentum score on FrontierPicks are HOWL, ASST, BRR, CHPT. This is a momentum ranking of price moves already made — research, not advice.
- How is this momentum ranking built?
- Every name in the US equity universe is scored on a composite momentum score — 1-month price trend 50%, 3-month trend 20% and acceleration 30% — computed arithmetically from daily closes, then ranked highest-first. The arithmetic is the whole ranking — no model orders the board. Each covered name links to its dated research dossier. Methodology is open.
- Is a high ranking a recommendation?
- No. The board reflects price moves that have already happened, not a forecast or a recommendation. It is educational research, not investment advice.
As of 18 September 2026 · research, not advice.