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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.
Gulfport Energy (GPOR)
Founded in 1997, Oklahoma City, OK-based Gulfport Energy Corporation is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas properties in the United States. The company's asset base – primarily focused on natural gas – is concentrated in the Utica Shale of Ohio and the SCOOP play in Oklahoma. Gulfport has a combined inventory in excess of 3,000 gross drilling locations in its two primary plays.
GPOR boasts a Momentum Style Score of A and VGM Score of B, and holds a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) rating. Shares of Gulfport Energy has seen some interesting price action recently; the stock is up 5.6% over the past one week and up 3.1% over the past four weeks. And in the last one-year period, GPOR has gained 18.2%. As for the stock's trading volume, 275,619.94 shares on average were traded over the last 20 days.
Momentum investors also pay close attention to a company's earnings. For GPOR, two analysts revised their earnings estimate upwards in the last 60 days, and the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $3.43 to $25.38 per share for 2025. GPOR boasts an average earnings surprise of 3.7%.
GPOR should be on investors' short list because of its impressive earnings fundamentals, a good Zacks Rank, and strong Momentum and VGM Style Scores.
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