What stock averages a daily 5% gain

Screening Filters

1. price_change_pct ≥ 5%

   • Purpose:
     To find stocks that have moved up at least 5% in price over the most recent trading period (typically today or the last session).

   • Rationale:
     Your question is: "What stock averages a daily 5% gain?"
     That would require an indicator like average daily return (e.g., mean % change per day over some historical window such as 30, 60, or 252 trading days).

     Our screener, however, does not directly support "average daily % gain" as a filter. Instead, it supports current or most recent period price change. So the best available proxy is:

     • Look for stocks that currently show a single-day gain ≥ 5%
     • This surfaces names that are capable of large daily moves and are presently exhibiting that kind of volatility/momentum.

Why Results Match (and Where They Don’t)

• Where they match:

  • You are interested in stocks that can move about 5% in a day.
    Filtering for price_change_pct ≥ 5 finds stocks that right now have moved at least that much in a single session, which aligns with the magnitude of move you’re asking about.

• Where they don’t fully match:

  • Your question is about “average daily 5% gain”, which implies:
    • Looking at many days of history, and
    • Calculating an average daily return of ~5%.
  • Our filter only looks at today’s (or last session’s) percentage change, not a historical average. So it does not tell you that the stock typically gains 5% per day, only that it has gained ≥ 5% in the latest period.

Why These Filters Are Still Useful

• They identify stocks demonstrating strong recent momentum or volatility, which are the kinds of names capable of large daily swings like 5%.
• While they cannot guarantee or quantify a stable 5% average daily gain, they help narrow the universe down to:
  • High-momentum
  • High-volatility
    stocks, which are more likely to occasionally (or frequently) show moves in that range.

If you’d like, I can suggest how you could approximate “average daily 5% gain” outside the screener (e.g., by downloading historical data and calculating average daily returns yourself).