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Bread Financial (BFH) had its Relative Strength (RS) Rating upgraded from 67 to 71 Monday — a welcome improvement, but still shy of the 80 or better score you prefer to see. IBD's proprietary rating tracks market leadership with a 1 (worst) to 99 (best) score. The grade shows how a stock's price behavior over the trailing 52 weeks compares to all the other stocks in our database. Decades of market research reveals that the best stocks often have an RS Rating of at least 80 as they begin their largest runs. See if Bread Financial can continue to show renewed price strength and hit that benchmark. Bread Financial is working on a cup with handle with a 67.04 entry. See if it can break out in heavy trade. In terms of top and bottom line numbers, Bread Financial has posted three quarters of increasing earnings growth. Sales growth has not followed the same trajectory, coming in at -1% in the most recent report. Bread Financial holds the No. 12 rank among its peers in the Finance-Card/Payment Processing industry group. StoneCo Cl A (STNE), dLocal (DLO) and American Express (AXP) are among the top 5 highly rated stocks within the group. This article was created automatically with Stats Perform's Wordsmith software using data and article templates supplied by Investor's Business Daily. An IBD journalist may have edited the article.
