For new and old investors, taking full advantage of the stock market and investing with confidence are common goals.
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.
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.
National Vision Holdings, Inc. is one of the leading and rapidly growing optical retailers in the United States. The company holds a solid position in the attractive value segment of the U.S. optical retail industry. National Vision completed the initial public offering of its common stock in October 2017.
EYE is a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) stock, with a Momentum Style Score of B and VGM Score of B. Shares are down 1.5% over the past one week and up 0.9% over the past four weeks. EYE has lost 42.2% in the last one-year period as well. Looking at trading volume, an average of 1,636,295.25 shares exchanged hands over the last 20 trading days.
Momentum investors also pay close attention to a company's earnings. For EYE, two analysts revised their earnings estimate upwards in the last 60 days, and the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.04 to $0.55 per share for 2025. EYE boasts an average earnings surprise of 79.3%.
EYE 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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