What Is the WallStreetScore?
One number that captures overall investment quality.
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Updated October 9, 2026
Simple answer
WallStreetScore is a single 0–100 rating that summarizes a company's overall investment quality — from 0 (weak) to 100 (elite). It combines financial strength, profitability, valuation, management quality, and moat into one number.
Why this matters
Use WSS to prioritize research, then verify company filings, valuation assumptions and data quality. The score does not replace reading those sources.
Good signs
A high score generally signals consistent profitability, manageable debt, reasonable valuation, and durable competitive advantages.
Warning signs
A low score generally reflects weak financials, high debt, poor cash conversion, or a price well above fundamentals.
Easy mistake to make
Treating the score as a buy signal on its own, ignoring sector context, or assuming a high score guarantees future returns.
How Wall Street Score helps
WallStreetScore presents this as the headline number on every stock page, color-coded from red to emerald, with a full breakdown of the underlying categories.
What the model combines
WSS combines multiple stored research dimensions, including financial strength, profitability and valuation, into a 0–100 model score. It is not a credit rating, probability of profit or certification of company quality. Consult the methodology and the displayed category breakdown for the available inputs.
Both overall WSS and Opportunity Score include price-sensitive inputs. The separate Company Quality score focuses on business characteristics. A falling price can improve a valuation component without improving the company's operations.
Why equal scores can mean different things
Two companies can have the same overall score while differing in leverage, profitability and valuation. Compare similar business models and review the components rather than treating the common scale as economic equivalence across sectors.
A score of 80 does not mean an 80% chance of profit. It also does not establish that every input is favorable. Data gaps, reporting lags, corporate actions and model assumptions can affect the reading.
Use the score to prioritize verification
Check the financial period and refresh dates, then investigate the company's cash generation, debt schedule, share count and competitive position. A category named management or moat is a model assessment, not a verified judgment about integrity or the permanence of an advantage.
The score cannot anticipate all litigation, regulation, product failures or abrupt market changes. Rankings and historical results are research context, not proof of future outperformance.
Apply this to a real company
Search a stock and see the numbers in context.
Use the stock page to compare the Wall Street Score with revenue, EPS, cash, debt, valuation, risks and the company explanation.
Further reading and verification
External references explain the underlying concepts and disclosures. Wall Street Score's examples and model interpretation are our own; these organizations do not endorse our scores.