LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Investor’s Business Daily (IBD), a leading financial news and research organization, today released the ultimate app for investors of all levels. The free app is equipped with a wealth of business and finance news, stock research, and actionable information to enable anyone to become a better investor. In addition to being incredibly user friendly, the app also includes several features that cannot be found anywhere else, such as IBD’s Proprietary Ratings and IBD’s Stocks on the Move list.
“We want to ensure that everyone has access to comprehensive information at their fingertips so that they can make the best investing decisions possible in real-time from wherever they are,” said IBD President, Jerry Ferrara. “The app goes far beyond disseminating news and tracking stock performance. We’ve included features that arm everyday investors with the same information professionals rely upon, which has never been done before.”
Exclusive to the IBD app are SmartSelect Ratings, which include an Earnings Per Share (EPS) rating of each stock from 99 (best) to one (worst). The top five percent of all stocks in terms of earnings-per-share growth earn ratings of 95 percent or higher. IBD’s exclusive Ratings also include companies’ SMR Ratings, which is a proprietary rating pioneered by IBD to help investors identify companies with superior sales growth, profit margins, and return on equity ratios. Each stock is ranked from A (best) to E (worst). An SMR Rating of A means that the company is in the top 20 percent of all stocks in terms of the key ingredients that drive earnings growth. IBD’s SmartSelect Ratings help investors spot value and performance so that they can easily determine which stocks will work well within their portfolios.
Additionally, IBD has integrated its exclusive Stocks on the Move list into the app. This important daily list highlights stocks that have had the greatest percentage increase in volume above their normal past daily trading level, which is usually a sign that institutions are buying or selling stock. This is significant because fund managers and other large institutional investors account for the bulk of all trading in the market. It's their enormous buying and selling power — not the trading of smaller individual investors — that pushes a stock either up or down. When investors understand this and know what to look for in terms of price and volume action, what’s really happening with the stock becomes increasingly clear so that investors can determine the best time to buy, sell or hold.
In addition to these unique features, app users gain easy access to IBD’s exclusive articles, stock analysis, news, real-time streaming stock quotes, live daily, weekly and intraday stock charts, IBD’s exclusive videos on stock analysis and market coverage, and more. Additional features will be rolled out in the coming weeks.
The IBD app is available for both iOS and Android through the App Store and Play Store respectively. Download it today.
About IBD
Investor's Business Daily is a leading financial news and research organization recognized for proprietary stock screens, comparative performance ratings and a record of identifying stock leaders as they emerge. The company takes a data-first approach to investing, educating investors based on what sound, thorough research yields. IBD has honed its approach over the last 50 years in order to help investors make smarter decisions. Its stock lists have outperformed the S&P, and its recent presidential poll, the most accurate over the past four election cycles, was one of only two national polls to accurately predict the outcome of the 2016 Presidential Election. IBD offers a number of interactive stock research tools and research for investors of every level. To learn more about all that IBD has available, please visit www.investors.com.