Financial stocks were in favor Thursday as innovative broker Interactive Brokers (IBKR) hit an all-time high and joined the IBD 50 best stocks list. Meanwhile, recently minted financial stock Figure Technology Solutions (FIGR), which launched on Sept. 9, was the sole newcomer to the prestigious IPO Leaders list.
Additionally, on Thursday clean energy company Bloom Energy (BE) made its way onto the Big Cap 20. Affordable cancer treatments developer BeOne Medicines (ONC) hit its highest price since late 2021. It came into the Stock Spotlight along with gold miner Gold Fields (GFI).
IBD stock screens are regularly updated to add new stocks to watch, as well as weed out those that have started to show weakness. In the tables below, you’ll see which stocks have been added to or removed from lists like the IBD 50, Sector Leaders and the IBD Big Cap 20.
Notably, the screens are based on The IBD Methodology. This strategy looks for stocks displaying the common traits typically shared by the best-performing stocks in the early stages of their big price moves.
Check this column each day to help build and maintain your list of stocks to watch with alerts to the most recent changes.
Interactive Brokers Is Not Your Father’s Broker
Financial play Interactive Brokers provides a global electronic market and brokerage for traditional items like stocks and bonds. It also offers inventive services such as IBKR ForecastTrader. This service lets customers use exchange-listed forecast contracts “to trade your opinion on yes-or-no questions on political, economic and climate events.”
However, never buy a stock just because it’s on an IBD list. Be sure to do your own research and run all your stock ideas through a buying checklist. And you can use IBD’s simple three-step routine to quickly track general market trends, find stocks to watch, and pinpoint the best time to buy and sell.
Changes made as of October 2, 2025 5:50 PM ET.
IBD 50: Interactive Brokers Leads Sixpack Onto 50
Interactive Brokers climbed 3.2% to a 71.63 high Thursday. The financial stock sports a 95 EPS Rating out of 99, and a near-perfect 97 Composite Rating. IBD’s flagship screen of the best growth stocks to watch gives you 50 companies showing strong relative price strength and top-notch fundamentals. Before you decide what stocks to buy, always check out these new and innovative stocks that historically far outperform the S&P 500.
IBD Sector Leaders
IBD’s most stringent and powerful screen, IBD Sector Leaders highlight the best growth stocks in IBD’s 33 sectors. All IBD Sector Leaders show outstanding earnings and sales growth in recent quarters. And they are strong across many other fundamental and price-performance metrics.
IBD Big Cap 20
This daily screen uncovers top-rated, large-cap growth stocks for your consideration. Big Cap 20 companies can deliver outsize gains without the volatility of smaller growth stocks.
IPO Leaders
Recent IPO stocks are where you often find some of the market’s best stocks. Figure Technology Solutions uses blockchain technology to help its customers. That’s the same technology that’s enabled bitcoin. The financial innovator closed at 41.28 Thursday, up about 33% in just three weeks. New IPOs are typically in their early stages of growth, and it’s big earnings growth that generally fuels a stock’s price performance. IPO Leaders has special screening criteria to find up-and-coming stocks with strong fundamental and technical traits.
Stock Spotlight
This daily stock list seeks out the best stocks to buy and watch with top fundamentals that are getting ready to break out. Use it to glean emerging industry and sector trends in the market.
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