Best All-Around Stocks by Balanced UQS Score

Last updated: May 24, 2026

The Balanced preset is the UQS default — and for most investors, it's the right starting point. Instead of tilting heavily toward any single investment philosophy, it distributes weight across all five pillars in proportions that reflect decades of academic research on what drives long-term stock returns. Quality and Moat each carry 25% because the evidence is overwhelming that profitable companies with durable competitive advantages outperform over multi-year periods. Growth receives 20% because expanding businesses compound shareholder value, but growth without quality or moat is fragile. Risk and Valuation each carry 15% as essential guardrails — avoiding financial distress and overpaying.

This balance isn't arbitrary. Factor investing research by Fama-French, AQR, and others has demonstrated that quality, value, momentum, and low-volatility factors each contribute independently to long-term returns. The UQS balanced approach captures most of these factors: Quality maps to the profitability factor, Moat captures elements of both quality and low-volatility, Growth maps partially to momentum, Risk captures the low-volatility anomaly, and Valuation maps to the value factor. By combining them, the Balanced preset diversifies across return drivers rather than concentrating on any single one.

The stocks ranked highest below are the best all-rounders in a universe of 6,400+ companies. They don't have the absolute highest growth, cheapest valuation, or widest moat — but they score well across every dimension simultaneously. In practice, these tend to be the compounders: companies that grow steadily, maintain their competitive advantages, avoid financial trouble, and trade at reasonable prices. They rarely make headlines, but their shareholders tend to do well over 3-5 year horizons with lower drawdowns than the market.

Balanced Approach's Principles: The Balanced approach: (1) No single factor dominates — diversify across return drivers, (2) Quality and Moat are slightly overweighted because they have the strongest long-term evidence, (3) Growth matters but must be backed by fundamentals, (4) Risk and Valuation provide downside protection, (5) Rebalance attention, not weights — use the balanced score to identify opportunities, then investigate individual pillar scores for deeper insight.

Balanced Preset Weights

Quality25%

Moat25%

Growth20%

Risk15%

Valuation15%

Top Balanced Stocks: Who Ranks Highest and Why

#1NVDANVIDIA Corporation83

NVIDIA Corporation tops the balanced ranking at 83, scoring consistently well across all five pillars: quality (87), moat (80), growth (100), risk (93), and valuation (45). A true all-rounder.

#2TSMTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited83

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited scores 83 — no single pillar dominates, but none falls short either. This is the compounding profile: steady quality, defensible position, growing earnings, manageable risk, fair price.

#3FUTUFutu Holdings Limited82

At 82, Futu Holdings Limited demonstrates balanced strength with particular standouts in quality (100) and moat (50), the two most heavily weighted pillars.

#4BZKanzhun Limited80

Kanzhun Limited scores 80 — consistently above-average across all pillars, the kind of stock the balanced approach is designed to surface.

#5PLMRPalomar Holdings, Inc.79

Palomar Holdings, Inc. scores 79 — consistently above-average across all pillars, the kind of stock the balanced approach is designed to surface.

Full Balanced Ranking: Top 25 Stocks

#	Stock	Sector	Score	Q	M	G	R	V
1	NVDANVIDIA Corporation	Technology	83	87	80	100	93	45
2	TSMTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited	Technology	83	73	82	78	95	92
3	FUTUFutu Holdings Limited	Financial Services	82	100	50	95	70	100
4	BZKanzhun Limited	Industrials	80	87	47	89	100	90
5	PLMRPalomar Holdings, Inc.	Financial Services	79	86	34	100	100	91
6	TWTradeweb Markets Inc.	Financial Services	79	83	74	75	100	62
7	HALOHalozyme Therapeutics, Inc.	Healthcare	78	99	63	83	49	91
8	INCYIncyte Corporation	Healthcare	78	94	44	75	100	91
9	FSLRFirst Solar, Inc.	Energy	77	83	48	92	96	80
10	AUAngloGold Ashanti Plc	Basic Materials	77	85	42	85	97	93
11	CPRXCatalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	Healthcare	76	91	42	79	100	80
12	ATATAtour Lifestyle Holdings Limited	Consumer Cyclical	76	89	29	96	91	89
13	PDDPDD Holdings Inc.	Consumer Cyclical	76	91	50	71	77	98
14	ADBEAdobe Inc.	Technology	76	97	69	44	69	100
15	DLODLocal Limited	Technology	75	72	53	89	76	95
16	WDO.TOWesdome Gold Mines Ltd.	Basic Materials	75	85	27	85	100	98
17	SEZLSezzle Inc.	Financial Services	75	96	26	100	91	70
18	EVREvercore Inc.	Financial Services	74	80	42	89	93	80
19	MKTXMarketAxess Holdings Inc.	Financial Services	74	90	65	40	100	82
20	HLNEHamilton Lane Incorporated	Financial Services	74	100	51	43	100	83
21	RMDResMed Inc.	Healthcare	74	90	52	62	100	71
22	MELIMercadoLibre, Inc.	Consumer Cyclical	74	67	72	87	82	60
23	APPAppLovin Corporation	Technology	73	88	53	91	74	59
24	MLIMueller Industries, Inc.	Industrials	73	91	34	77	100	78
25	PACGrupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico, S.A.B. de C.V.	Industrials	73	87	36	84	74	98

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you build a balanced stock portfolio?

A balanced approach evaluates every stock across multiple dimensions rather than optimizing for just one. The UQS Balanced preset weights Quality (25%), Moat (25%), Growth (20%), Risk (15%), and Valuation (15%). Stocks that score highest are strong across all five — they're profitable, competitively advantaged, growing, financially stable, and reasonably priced. Building a portfolio of these all-rounders diversifies your exposure across investment factors, reducing the risk that a single style going out of favor drags your returns.

What is the best way to screen stocks?

The most effective screening combines multiple financial metrics across different categories rather than filtering on just one or two ratios. A stock with a low P/E but terrible margins may be a value trap. A stock with great growth but crushing debt may not survive a downturn. The UQS system scores 29 metrics across six pillars — quality, moat, growth, risk, valuation, and momentum (Pro) — then weights them into a single score that identifies stocks strong across all dimensions. Start with the overall UQS score for breadth, then drill into individual pillar scores for depth.

How do you evaluate stock quality?

Stock quality is measured by how efficiently and profitably a company converts capital into returns. The UQS Quality pillar evaluates six metrics: ROIC (return on invested capital), ROE (return on equity), operating margin, net profit margin, gross profit to total assets (the Novy-Marx factor), and free cash flow yield. Each metric is scored against sector-calibrated thresholds, so a technology company isn't compared against an industrial company's standards. A high quality score means the business generates superior returns consistently — the hallmark of a well-managed company with structural advantages.