Top 10 — Communication Services — 1 Oct 2026
The ten as they stood on 1 Oct 2026. Scores, pillars and reasons are the ones recorded that day; nothing here is recomputed. Each bar is a percentile: how this company ranked against every company the score ranked, 0–100.
The Top 10 score is a published weighted sum of percentile ranks, rebalanced on the first trading day of each month. A list is a published formula and its output, not a recommendation. Method version 4.
Get this list's changes every morning
One short email a day: who entered, who left, and the reason — with the score moves behind it.
Informational only — not financial advice. One email a day, unsubscribe in one click.
The ten
| # | Company | Why it was here | Sector | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alphabet Inc. (Class C) (GOOG) | Profitability 89th (operating margin 32%, return on equity 31.8%).Profitability 89th (operating margin 32%, return on equity 31.8%) and financial health 75th (debt to equity 0.2, free cash flow margin 18.2%); weakest is valuation (49th, price to book 6.4, price to earnings 16.8). |
Communication Services | 70.7 |
| 2 | Alphabet Inc. (Class A) (GOOGL) | Profitability 89th (operating margin 32%, return on equity 31.8%).Profitability 89th (operating margin 32%, return on equity 31.8%) and financial health 75th (debt to equity 0.2, free cash flow margin 18.2%); weakest is valuation (46th, price to book 6.5, price to earnings 17). |
Communication Services | 70.4 |
| 3 | Meta Platforms (META) | Profitability 90th (operating margin 41.4%, return on equity 27.8%).Profitability 90th (operating margin 41.4%, return on equity 27.8%) and growth 84th (revenue growth year over year 27.7%, 3-year revenue CAGR 19.9%); weakest is valuation (34th, price to book 7.7, price to earnings 27.3). |
Communication Services | 69.4 |
| 4 | Millicom (TIGO) | Profitability 89th (return on equity 37.6%, operating margin 28.2%).Profitability 89th (return on equity 37.6%, operating margin 28.2%) and trend 75th (a "golden cross" — its 50-day average is above its 200-day); weakest is financial health (40th, debt to equity 4.8, free cash flow margin 18.6%). Scored on 5 of 6 pillars — it pays a dividend, but its filings carry no per-share series to count increases from; no annual share count in its filings. |
Communication Services | 65.0 |
| 5 | GRINDR INC (GRND) | Profitability 94th (return on equity 201.6%, operating margin 28.7%).Profitability 94th (return on equity 201.6%, operating margin 28.7%) and growth 89th (3-year revenue CAGR 31.1%, revenue growth year over year 31%); weakest is capital return (13th, net share count bought back over the year -11, consecutive years of dividend increases 0 years). |
Communication Services | 61.4 |
| 6 | Match Group (MTCH) | Profitability 83rd (operating margin 25%).Profitability 83rd (operating margin 25%) and valuation 79th (price to earnings 14.4 (within its sector)); weakest is growth (27th, revenue growth year over year 1.7%, 3-year revenue CAGR 3%). |
Communication Services | 61.0 |
| 8 | MAGNITE INC (MGNI) | Trend 82nd (trading above its 200-day average).Trend 82nd (trading above its 200-day average) and financial health 72nd (free cash flow margin 23.2%, debt to equity 0.4); weakest is capital return (17th, net share count bought back over the year -4.7, consecutive years of dividend increases 0 years). |
Communication Services | 58.2 |
| 9 | Reddit (RDDT) | Growth 97th (revenue growth year over year 66.6%, 3-year revenue CAGR 48.9%).Growth 97th (revenue growth year over year 66.6%, 3-year revenue CAGR 48.9%) and financial health 92nd (debt to equity 0, free cash flow margin 31.1%); weakest is capital return (10th, net share count bought back over the year -38.9, consecutive years of dividend increases 0 years). |
Communication Services | 56.9 |
| 10 | IMAX CORP (IMAX) | Trend 91st (a "golden cross" — its 50-day average is above its 200-day).Trend 91st (a "golden cross" — its 50-day average is above its 200-day) and growth 66th (revenue growth year over year 14.8%, 3-year revenue CAGR 10.9%); weakest is valuation (17th, price to earnings 71.9, price to book 8.1). |
Communication Services | 56.8 |
| 12 | New York Times Company (NYT) | Financial health 84th (debt to equity 0, free cash flow margin 19.5%).Financial health 84th (debt to equity 0, free cash flow margin 19.5%) and capital return 69th (consecutive years of dividend increases 13 years, net share count bought back over the year 0.5); weakest is trend (36th, trading below its 200-day average). |
Communication Services | 56.3 |
Entered on 1 Oct 2026
MAGNITE INC (MGNI) — Entered 1 Oct 2026: score 58.2, rank 8 (not compared with 1 Sep 2026 — those rows were scored under method version 3, this pass under 4, and the formula changed between them, so a score is only comparable within one version).
IMAX CORP (IMAX) — Entered 1 Oct 2026: score 56.8, rank 10 (not compared with 1 Sep 2026 — those rows were scored under method version 3, this pass under 4, and the formula changed between them, so a score is only comparable within one version).
Left on 1 Oct 2026
UNITI GROUP INC (UNIT) — Left 1 Oct 2026: no longer eligible — it dropped out of the scored universe.
Passed over on 1 Oct 2026
AppLovin (APP) — Not selected 1 Oct 2026 despite rank 7: it swings more than nine tenths of the field (5.60% a day against 4.99%), and 59.40 does not clear the 61.80 a high-volatility name needs.
See every rebalance of this list →
Informational only — NOT financial advice.