With 2025 in the books, some key areas like big cap growth remain rangebound, while leadership and new up-legs emerge elsewhere.
Despite the mixed evidence, it’s clear that any alpha remains in offensive sectors — like Financials and Industrials — while defensive sectors continue to lag.
December was a choppy month, but there are some clear pockets of strength we can target for the best setups.
Here are the Top Stocks for the Month of December.
This scan gives us a clean, no-nonsense read on the strongest and most consistent outperformers of the month.
We’re tracking just two things: how often a stock outperformed, and by how much.
In other words, we want to know how frequently a stock beats the market — as well as the magnitude of its outperformance. Simple as that.
Let’s take a look at one of the best stocks coming from the Financial sector, KeyCorp $KEY:
The stock has been carving out a textbook trend reversal pattern since 2023.
Price is now pressing into new highs as it pushes through the 61.8% extension near 20.
As long as we’re above that level, the path of least resistance is higher, and we want to be buyers of the breakout. We’re targeting 27 over the next 1–3 months.
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