Growth Stocks Screener

US equities leading on revenue and EPS growth, with quality and valuation checks.
# Ticker Company Sector Growth Score Revenue Growth* Earnings Signal* Rule of 40† Margin Trend Stage Theme Conf
1 MSFT Microsoft Corp. Technology 97 Rev $90.01B beat, Azure +43% FY26 Azure rev >$100B n/v Stable HYPERGROWTH AI High
2 AMZN Amazon.com Inc. Technology 96 Rev >$200B first time (carried) AWS +37%, profit 3x+ YoY n/v Stable HYPERGROWTH AI High
3 MPWR Monolithic Power Systems Semiconductors 92 +47.6% YoY (carried, Q2) EPS $6.50 beat by 10.5% 85 37.5% op margin HYPERGROWTH AI High
4 LRCX Lam Research Corp. Semiconductors 91 Beat + AI-tied guide (carried) Guidance above consensus n/v Stable HYPERGROWTH AI High
5 MCHP Microchip Technology Semiconductors 90 +38% YoY, +13.2% QoQ (Q1 FY27) EPS $0.76 vs $0.70 (8.7% beat) n/v Improving HYPERGROWTH AI High
6 TWLO Twilio Inc. Technology 88 FY guide 18-18.5% (from 14-15%) Q3 EPS $1.42-1.47 vs $1.39 n/v Stable HYPERGROWTH CLOUD Med
7 PBF PBF Energy Inc. Energy 86 +56.2% YoY (carried, Q2) EPS $6.22 vs $4.15 est. n/v Improving HYPERGROWTH OTHER High
8 EME EMCOR Group Industrials 85 Beat + raised FY26 guide (carried) Backlog growth confirmed n/v Improving HYPERGROWTH INFRA High
9 PLTR Palantir Technologies Software 84 +85% YoY (carried) US commercial +133% 131 ~46% GAAP op HYPERGROWTH AI High
10 GOOGL Alphabet Inc. (Class A) Technology 83 Cloud +82% YoY (carried) n/v n/v n/v HYPERGROWTH AI Med
11 MU Micron Technology Semiconductors 82 n/v ~791% expected (CY, carried) n/v Improving HYPERGROWTH AI Med
12 NVDA Nvidia Corp. Semiconductors 81 +85% YoY (carried) n/v n/v ~75% gross HYPERGROWTH AI Med
13 HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise Tech Hardware 80 +40% YoY (carried, Q2 FY26) EPS +107.9% YoY, beat 46.3% n/v Networking mgn down HYPERGROWTH AI High
14 CIEN Ciena Corporation Networking 79 Guide +32% (carried, FY26) Est. +13.4% in 30 days n/v Stable HYPERGROWTH AI High
15 PAYC Paycom Software Technology 78 Q2 rev $531.2M Raised FY26 outlook + EBITDA guide n/v Stable GROWTH CLOUD Med
16 STRL Sterling Infrastructure Industrials 77 +59.2% expected (carried, CY) +77.4% expected (CY) n/v Improving HYPERGROWTH INFRA High
17 BE Bloom Energy Alternative Energy 76 +130% YoY (carried, Q1) Beat by 388% n/v Improving HYPERGROWTH INFRA High
18 LLY Eli Lilly & Co. Healthcare 75 +56% YoY (carried) +114% YoY n/v ~82.5% gross HYPERGROWTH BIOTECH High
19 TEAM Atlassian Corp. Software 74 FY guide 13% (vs 13.4% est.) FQ4 rev + earnings beat n/v Stable GROWTH CLOUD Med
20 U Unity Software Technology 73 Q2 above expectations Better-than-expected Q2 n/v n/v GROWTH CLOUD High
21 DXCM DexCom Inc. Healthcare 72 +13% YoY (carried, Q2) EPS $0.70 vs $0.61 est. n/v Op margin 24.3% GROWTH BIOTECH High
22 FTNT Fortinet Inc. Software 71 Billings beat (carried, Q2) EPS $0.90, rev $2.05B n/v Stable GROWTH CLOUD High
23 AKAM Akamai Technologies Technology 70 Q2 above estimates Beat Q2 earnings estimates n/v n/v GROWTH CLOUD High
24 ORCL Oracle Corp. Technology 66 n/v $7B Pentagon contract (carried) n/v Stable GARP CLOUD High
25 CNC Centene Corporation Healthcare 62 Guide $171-175B (carried) Q1 beat expectations n/v Stable GARP OTHER Med

Top 3 Growth Picks — Durable-Growth Convergence

Score 90 · HYPERGROWTH · Theme: AI · Verified this week
The freshest verified acceleration in the screen. Q1 FY27 on 6 August: revenue $1.48B, up 38% year over year and 13.2% sequentially, adjusted EPS $0.76 versus $0.70 expected, and Q3 guidance of $1.60B against a $1.55B consensus. Management highlighted data-centre and AI-connectivity traction including a PCIe Gen 6 storage architecture. The sequential acceleration matters more than the year-over-year figure here — it indicates the cyclical downturn in its end markets is genuinely easing, not just lapping an easy base. Key risk: leverage remains high, and several banks trimmed price targets while keeping positive ratings.
Rev +38% YoY+13.2% QoQGuide above est.
Score 88 · HYPERGROWTH · Theme: CLOUD · Verified this week
The single clearest growth re-acceleration of the period: Twilio raised full-year revenue growth guidance to 18–18.5%, up from 14–15% — against an analyst forecast of 14.8%. A raise of that size mid-year is a change to the forward revenue base, not a one-quarter beat, and it is exactly the signal this screen is built to catch. Q3 guidance of $1.51–1.52B on adjusted EPS of $1.42–1.47 also cleared the consensus on both lines. Key risk: the widely cited +17% figure is a premarket quote, and a guidance raise of this magnitude sets a demanding bar for the next two prints.
FY growth 15% to 18%Q3 guide abovePremarket figure
Score 97 · HYPERGROWTH · Theme: AI / CLOUD · Carried, no new print
Retains the highest score on the strongest verified fundamentals in the screen: fiscal Q4 revenue of $90.01B against an $87.62B consensus, Azure growth of 43% at constant currency versus Street estimates of 40.2%, and Azure FY26 revenue surpassing $100B for the first time. Stated plainly: no new print landed this period — this score reflects carried fundamentals, not fresh confirmation, which is why the two fresh entries above lead the card order despite lower scores. Key risk: FY2027 capex guidance was directional only, so the next Azure print carries the full weight of the re-rating.
Azure +43%Azure FY26 >$100BCarried, not fresh

Why each name ranks where it does

MSFT · Microsoft Corp.

Fiscal Q4 revenue of $90.01B beat the $87.62B consensus; Azure grew 43% at constant currency versus Street estimates of 40.2%, and Azure FY26 revenue surpassed $100B for the first time (carried). No new print landed this period — the score reflects carried fundamentals rather than fresh confirmation. Key risk: FY2027 capex guidance was directional only.

AMZN · Amazon.com Inc.

Q2 revenue crossed $200.61B for the first time with AWS accelerating to 37% growth, its fastest since 2021 (carried). Topped a $3 trillion market cap for the first time on 3 August — a valuation milestone, not a fundamental catalyst, and treated as such. Note: Q2 GAAP EPS included roughly $53.4B of one-time investment gains, which is why the operating growth rate matters more than the headline surprise.

MPWR · Monolithic Power Systems

Record Q2 revenue of $980.6M, up 47.6% year over year, with adjusted operating income of $367.7M implying a 37.5% operating margin — a verified Rule of 40 near 85, one of only two names in the screen with both inputs confirmed. Enterprise Data (AI-datacenter power) grew 164.3% year over year; Q3 guidance came 16.5% above consensus. Carried from the prior window.

LRCX · Lam Research Corp.

Fiscal Q4 beat with forward guidance tied directly to AI-driven fab investment (carried). Applied Materials reports in the coming week — the cleanest forthcoming read on whether equipment spend is actually being deployed rather than merely guided, and a direct read-through for this name.

MCHP · Microchip Technology

The freshest verified acceleration in the screen (6 August): revenue $1.48B, up 38% year over year and 13.2% sequentially, adjusted EPS $0.76 versus $0.70, and Q3 guidance of $1.60B against a $1.55B consensus. The sequential acceleration is the key datum — it indicates the cyclical downturn in its end markets is easing rather than lapping an easy base. Management highlighted data-center and AI connectivity including a PCIe Gen 6 architecture. Key risk: leverage remains high and several banks trimmed price targets while keeping positive ratings.

TWLO · Twilio Inc.

The clearest growth re-acceleration of the period: full-year revenue growth guidance raised to 18-18.5% from 14-15%, against an analyst forecast of 14.8%. A mid-year raise of that magnitude changes the forward revenue base rather than one quarter's result. Q3 guidance of $1.51-1.52B on adjusted EPS of $1.42-1.47 also cleared consensus on both lines. Key risk: the cited +17% is a premarket figure, and the raise sets a demanding bar for the next two prints.

PBF · PBF Energy Inc.

Q2 revenue rose 56.2% year over year to $11.68B on record crack spreads, with EPS of $6.22 against a $4.15 consensus (carried). Held on reported fundamentals — but flagged: energy was the weakest S&P sector this week as crude fell on Iran-deal speculation, meaning the crack-spread input that produced these numbers has turned. The next quarter will reflect that before this screen does.

EME · EMCOR Group

Blowout Q2 beat with raised full-year 2026 guidance and confirmed backlog growth (carried). A physical-construction route into the AI-datacenter buildout, uncorrelated to semiconductor-cycle valuation risk.

PLTR · Palantir Technologies

The rare hypergrowth name that is also highly profitable: revenue up 85% year over year with US commercial up 133% on a roughly 46% GAAP operating margin (carried). Rule of 40 computes to about 131 from those two verified inputs — the screen's best profitability-plus-growth combination and one of only two names with both Rule-of-40 inputs confirmed.

GOOGL · Alphabet Inc. (Class A)

Cloud revenue growth of 82% year over year remains one of the strongest hyperscaler rates in the screen (carried). Important quality note: Q2 GAAP EPS included roughly $98B of one-time gains primarily from unrealized equity-securities appreciation — excluding Alphabet and Amazon, the S&P 500's season earnings surprise falls from 29.2% to 10.9%. Judge the operating line, not the headline.

MU · Micron Technology

Expected current-year EPS growth near 791% (carried) — fundamentals remain exceptional. Confidence capped at Med: the complex rose more than 7% this week but entered it down roughly 15% since 1 July, with many constituents still 40-50% lower year to date, and no fresh print landed for this name.

NVDA · Nvidia Corp.

The structural AI-compute engine with an elite growth and margin profile (carried). Gained more than 10% this week on the sector snapback, but that was a rate-path and sector move with no company catalyst behind it — a price event, not a fundamental one, and scored accordingly here.

HPE · Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Q2 FY26 non-GAAP EPS beat by 46.3% and grew 107.9% year over year; revenue rose 40% and orders more than doubled (carried). An infrastructure builder in the layer the market has consistently rewarded. Key risk: networking segment margin compressed year over year even as revenue surged.

CIEN · Ciena Corporation

Raised FY26 revenue guidance to $6.3B, up 32% at the midpoint, on a record backlog near $7B (carried). Optical networking is the physical plumbing of AI data centres. Key risk: a premium valuation leaves little room for a guidance miss.

PAYC · Paycom Software

Reported Q2 revenue of $531.2M, raised its full-year outlook and set FY26 adjusted EBITDA guidance, with shares up roughly 15% premarket. A clean beat-and-raise in the period's strongest fresh cohort. Key risk: the percentage figure cited is a premarket quote rather than a confirmed close.

STRL · Sterling Infrastructure

Expected current-year revenue growth of 59.2% and earnings growth of 77.4% on data-centre and AI-infrastructure construction (carried), with a sustained top estimate-revision rank. Physical construction demand captures the AI buildout without semiconductor-cycle valuation risk.

BE · Bloom Energy

Q1 revenue rose 130% year over year with EPS beating estimates by 388% (carried), driven by AI-datacentre power demand. Key risk: the premium valuation attached to that growth was explicitly flagged in research commentary.

LLY · Eli Lilly & Co.

Revenue up 56% and EPS up 114% year over year on the GLP-1 franchise, with an 82.5% gross margin (carried). Growth entirely uncorrelated to the AI-capex debate and to the rate path that drove this week's index moves.

TEAM · Atlassian Corp.

Beat consensus on both revenue and earnings for fiscal Q4 with Q1 guidance above expectations, and posted the largest single move in the market this week at +29 to +30%. Classified GROWTH rather than HYPERGROWTH because full-year revenue growth guidance of 13% came in below the 13.4% consensus — price action does not set stage classification here; the reported growth rate does.

U · Unity Software

Reported better-than-expected second-quarter results, with shares up 13.3%. Part of the period's five-name enterprise-software beat cohort. Rule of 40 shown n/v: no verified margin figure was available to pair with the growth rate, and it is not estimated.

DXCM · DexCom Inc.

Q2 revenue grew 13% year over year to $1.308B, beating consensus; adjusted EPS of $0.70 beat the $0.61 estimate by over 15%, with operating margin expanding to 24.3% from 18.4% (carried). The FDA selected DexCom as the first participant in its TEMPO digital-health pilot; FY2026 revenue guidance was raised on the print.

FTNT · Fortinet Inc.

Strong second-quarter billings growth outpaced analyst estimates, with adjusted EPS of $0.90 on revenue of $2.05B (carried). Cybersecurity spend is proving durable even as broader software names face AI-disruption scrutiny.

AKAM · Akamai Technologies

Beat second-quarter earnings estimates, with shares up more than 8% on 7 August. The smallest of the period's fresh software entries by magnitude, but a genuine verified beat in a cohort that produced five of them in one week.

ORCL · Oracle Corp.

Won a ten-year Pentagon software contract worth up to $7 billion (carried) — a durable multi-year revenue catalyst rather than a sentiment move. Enterprise software has generally held up better than mega-cap AI names through this period's volatility.

CNC · Centene Corporation

Q1 2026 results blew past expectations, prompting a raise in premium and services revenue guidance to $171-175B (carried). A managed-care turnaround with genuinely uncorrelated drivers — no AI exposure in either direction, and no new print this period.

Growth Stage Breakdown

StageCountDefinitionTickers
HYPERGROWTH17Revenue 25% or more year over year, or equivalent earnings accelerationMSFT · AMZN · MPWR · LRCX · MCHP · TWLO · PBF · EME · PLTR · GOOGL · MU · NVDA · HPE · CIEN · STRL · BE · LLY
GROWTH6Revenue 15–25% year over year on a durable trajectoryPAYC · TEAM · U · DXCM · FTNT · AKAM
GARP2Moderate growth at a reasonable multipleORCL · CNC

Active Growth Themes

Theme#TickersTheme driver this period
Enterprise Software5TWLO · PAYC · TEAM · U · AKAMThe period’s dominant fresh cohort. Five independent beats in one week, led by Twilio’s full-year growth guide raised from 14–15% to 18–18.5% and Paycom’s Q2 revenue of $531.2M with a raised outlook. Falling rate expectations lift long-duration software valuations, but these entries are here on reported numbers, not on multiple expansion.
AI Infrastructure / Power6MPWR · LRCX · EME · HPE · CIEN · STRLCarried from the last verified window: Monolithic Power’s 164% year-over-year Enterprise Data growth and Rule of 40 near 85, EMCOR’s raised FY26 guidance, Ciena’s record $7B backlog and Sterling’s expected 59.2% revenue growth. Applied Materials reports next — the cleanest forthcoming test of whether equipment spend is actually being deployed.
AI Compute / Semis3MCHP · MU · NVDAMicrochip is this period’s fresh confirmation, at +38% year-over-year revenue with sequential acceleration and guidance above consensus, inside a complex that rose more than 7% for the week. Micron and Nvidia fundamentals carried; the complex remains roughly 15% below its early-July level with many names down 40–50% year to date.
Cloud Hyperscalers3MSFT · AMZN · GOOGLAll three carried — no hyperscaler reported this period. Amazon topped a $3 trillion market cap for the first time on 3 August, but that is a valuation milestone rather than a fundamental catalyst, and is treated as such here.
Healthcare3LLY · DXCM · CNCAll carried. DexCom’s Q2 beat with operating margin expanding to 24.3% from 18.4% remains the most recent fresh catalyst; Eli Lilly’s GLP-1 franchise and Centene’s managed-care turnaround stay genuinely uncorrelated to the AI-capex debate.
Energy / Transition2PBF · BEPBF’s 56.2% year-over-year Q2 revenue growth on record crack spreads is intact as reported — but the sector tailwind reversed hard this week as crude fell on Iran-deal speculation. Held on fundamentals with an explicit forward-risk flag; see the trap list.

Change Log

The period’s real signal, and an important caveat: with 88% of the S&P 500 reported, 86% beat EPS estimates — the highest rate since Q2 2021. But the headline surprise magnitude is misleading, and it is worth stating: excluding Alphabet and Amazon, whose GAAP figures included one-time gains of roughly $98B and $53.4B respectively, the S&P 500 earnings surprise percentage falls from 29.2% to 10.9%. Still above the five- and ten-year averages, but a very different picture than the headline implies. A growth screen that reported the 29.2% without the adjustment would be flattering itself.

Entered (6): MCHP (revenue $1.48B, +38% YoY and +13.2% sequentially, EPS beat 8.7%, Q3 guide above consensus) · TWLO (FY revenue growth guide raised to 18–18.5% from 14–15%) · PAYC (Q2 revenue $531.2M, raised full-year outlook and FY26 adjusted EBITDA guidance) · TEAM (FQ4 revenue and earnings beat, Q1 guide above consensus) · U (better-than-expected Q2) · AKAM (Q2 beat).

Displaced (5): RCL, DAL, SHW, KO and TROW leave the ranked table. None deteriorated — their catalysts remain valid but are now a reporting cycle old, and the screen caps at 25 names. This period’s fresh software cohort simply outranked the old-economy GARP tail on growth durability. Stated explicitly so a departure is not misread as a downgrade.

Held with a new flag — PBF: Q2 revenue growth of 56.2% year over year and EPS of $6.22 against a $4.15 consensus are unchanged as reported. But energy was the weakest S&P sector this week, down over 2%, as crude fell on White House signals of a possible Iran agreement. This is where the growth screen and the momentum screen legitimately disagree: momentum downgraded the name on the sector reversal; growth holds it on reported fundamentals while flagging that the crack-spread tailwind driving those fundamentals has turned. Both readings are correct for their own mandate.

Stage note — TEAM: classified GROWTH, not HYPERGROWTH, despite posting the largest single move in the market this week at +29 to +30%. Reason: its full-year revenue growth guidance of 13% came in below the 13.4% consensus. Price action does not set the stage classification in this screen — the reported growth rate does.

Macro backdrop worth naming: Q2 GDP grew at a 1.5% annualised rate, down from 2.1% in Q1, and July payrolls fell 23,000. Corporate earnings are accelerating while the underlying economy decelerates — a divergence that cannot persist indefinitely and is the principal medium-term risk to every name on this list.

Growth Trap & Watch List

WENTrap confirmed · guidance withdrawn
Reported global sales down more than 6%, driven by an 8.2% decline in the US — and withdrew its 2026 financial outlook entirely despite beating consensus on earnings, revenue and adjusted EBITDA. A withdrawn outlook is a stronger negative signal than a missed quarter: it says management cannot forecast its own business. Beating on the quarter does not offset it.
UWMCTrap confirmed · dividend suspended
Fell roughly 25% after missing earnings expectations and suspending its quarterly dividend. Two independent negative signals in one print, and the dividend suspension is a capital-allocation admission rather than a quarterly variance. Notably this happened in the same week the expected rate path fell — a lower rate path did not rescue it.
PBFWatch · tailwind reversed, fundamentals intact
The 56.2% year-over-year revenue growth was real and record crack spreads drove it. Those spreads are exactly what turned this week as energy became the weakest sector on Iran-deal speculation — with no agreement announced. Held on reported fundamentals; the flag is that the input producing them has changed direction, which the next quarter will reflect before the screen does.
TEAMWatch · FY guide below consensus
Beat on the quarter and guided Q1 above expectations, but full-year revenue growth guidance of 13% came in below the 13.4% consensus. The market rewarded the near term over the annual figure with a roughly 29 to 30% move. For a growth screen the annual guide is the more informative number, which is why this enters at GROWTH rather than HYPERGROWTH.
MU · NVDAWatch · complex still below July levels
Fundamentals are not in question and the complex rose more than 7% this week. But it entered that week down roughly 15% since 1 July, with many constituents still 40–50% lower year to date. One strong week does not re-establish a trend, and neither name delivered a fresh print this period.
Earnings-quality watchSeason-wide · one-time gains
Not a single-name flag but a screen-wide one: the season’s headline 29.2% earnings surprise falls to 10.9% once Alphabet’s and Amazon’s one-time investment gains are excluded. When judging any name against “the season was strong”, use the adjusted figure. Reported growth and operating growth are diverging at the index level this quarter.

Exclusions

TickerReason excluded
WENWithdrew its 2026 outlook with US sales down 8.2% — trap confirmed this period.
UWMCRoughly −25% on an earnings miss plus a suspended dividend — trap confirmed this period.
METARemains excluded from the prior period: EPS miss, guidance at the low end, free cash flow collapse against raised capex. No new print this period to change the read.
GDDY · COINTraps confirmed in the prior period (AI-disruption downgrade; crypto-beta regime reversal). No new information this period.
WPP+24% on an H1 beat, but like-for-like revenue still fell 4.7% — a turnaround off a declining base fails the growth-durability test.
SPCXFirst earnings since IPO is a genuine event, but no verified revenue-growth or margin figures were available to score it — not ranked on an unverified basis.
RCL · DAL · SHW · KO · TROWDisplaced by higher-growth fresh entries, not downgraded — catalysts remain valid but are a reporting cycle old.

Confidence Footnotes

* Revenue Growth / Earnings Signal — every figure is web-sourced from dated company reports or research notes, labelled by basis (quarterly year over year, sequential, guidance, or expected current-year growth). Where a verified figure was not available, the cell reads n/v and contributes nothing to the score.

Rule of 40 — computed only where both verified revenue growth and a verified margin figure exist; shown as n/v otherwise rather than estimated. Only MPWR (about 85) and PLTR (about 131) have both inputs verified this run.

MCHP · U · AKAM — High: dated, verified quarterly results from this period’s reporting window.

TWLO · PAYC · TEAM — Med despite strong catalysts. TWLO and PAYC percentage figures are premarket quotes rather than confirmed closes; TEAM’s full-year guidance came in below consensus. The guidance content is verified in all three cases — the confidence cap is about price magnitude and guide quality, not about whether the events happened.

MSFT · AMZN · GOOGL · PLTR · MU · NVDA · HPE · CIEN · STRL · BE · LLY · DXCM · FTNT · EME · MPWR · LRCX · ORCL · CNC — carried from the most recently verified reporting window; no new calendar-quarter print landed this period. Carried scores reflect prior confirmation, not fresh evidence.

PBF — High on reported fundamentals, flagged on forward inputs. The distinction is deliberate: this screen scores what was reported, and flags what has changed since.

Season-wide adjustment — the 86% beat rate is a count, not a magnitude. The magnitude figure of 29.2% is materially distorted by two companies’ one-time gains and falls to 10.9% excluding them.

Market Context

Earnings accelerated while the economy decelerated. With 88% of the S&P 500 reported, 86% beat EPS estimates, the highest rate since Q2 2021, and analysts now project 30.0% earnings growth for calendar 2026. The important qualifier: excluding Alphabet’s and Amazon’s one-time investment gains, the season’s earnings surprise magnitude falls from 29.2% to 10.9%.

Against that, the macro backdrop softened materially. Q2 GDP grew at a 1.5% annualised rate, down from 2.1%, and the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July against expectations near 86,000, with May and June revised down a combined 103,000. September rate-hike odds fell from 55% to 44%, lifting long-duration growth valuations: the S&P closed at a record 7,757.64, up 3.6% on the week, the Nasdaq gained 5.2%, and semiconductors snapped back more than 7%.

This period’s fresh growth catalysts were concentrated in enterprise software — Twilio raising full-year growth guidance from 14–15% to 18–18.5%, with Paycom, Atlassian, Unity and Akamai all beating — plus Microchip’s 38% year-over-year revenue growth with sequential acceleration. Energy inverted from the strongest sector to the weakest as crude fell on Iran-deal speculation, with no agreement announced. The core tension for growth investors: corporate earnings and the underlying economy are moving in opposite directions, and the next inflation print determines whether the rate relief supporting these valuations holds.

What this run shows

This growth screener ranks US equities on the durability of revenue and earnings expansion rather than on price appreciation. The framework scores reported revenue growth, earnings acceleration, Rule of 40 where both inputs are verifiable, margin direction and thematic positioning — and it classifies each name as HYPERGROWTH, GROWTH or GARP by its reported and guided growth rate, never by how the stock traded.

The week of 3–7 August delivered six fresh entries, five of them in enterprise software. Twilio (TWLO) produced the clearest re-acceleration by raising full-year revenue growth guidance to 18–18.5% from 14–15%, a change to the forward revenue base rather than a single quarter’s beat. Microchip (MCHP) posted revenue of $1.48B, up 38% year over year and 13.2% sequentially — the sequential figure being the more informative one, since it signals an easing cycle rather than an easy comparison. Microsoft (MSFT) retains the top score at 97 on carried fundamentals, explicitly labelled as such because no new print landed.

Atlassian (TEAM) is the instructive case this run: it posted the largest single move in the market at roughly +29 to +30%, yet enters at GROWTH rather than HYPERGROWTH because full-year revenue guidance of 13% came in under the 13.4% consensus. The screen also disagrees with the momentum screener on PBF Energy, holding it on reported 56.2% revenue growth while flagging that the crack-spread tailwind behind those numbers has reversed. Two honest caveats govern the whole run: only two names have both Rule-of-40 inputs verified, and the season’s headline 29.2% earnings surprise falls to 10.9% once two companies’ one-time gains are excluded. This is a systematic starting point for research, not a recommendation to act.

Updated · Fundamentals and catalysts verified through the 7 August 2026 close · 25 ranked names

What does the ESEN growth score measure?

It scores the durability of business expansion, not share-price performance. The inputs are reported revenue growth, earnings acceleration relative to revenue, Rule of 40 where both components are verifiable, margin direction and thematic positioning. A stock that rose 30% on a quarter but guided full-year growth below consensus scores lower than a quieter name compounding at a verified rate.

What is the difference between HYPERGROWTH, GROWTH and GARP?

HYPERGROWTH means revenue expanding 25% or more year over year, or equivalent earnings acceleration. GROWTH covers 15 to 25% on a durable trajectory. GARP means moderate growth available at a reasonable multiple. Classification follows the reported and guided growth rate only — price action never moves a name between stages in this screen.

How is the Rule of 40 calculated here, and why is it often blank?

Rule of 40 adds revenue growth percentage to free-cash-flow or operating margin percentage. It appears only when both inputs are independently verified for that company in the current window. Where a margin figure is unavailable the cell reads n/v rather than showing an estimate. This run has two names with both inputs confirmed.

What does a carried score mean?

A carried score reflects the most recently verified reporting window rather than a print that landed this period. Companies report quarterly, so most names in any given week have no fresh results. Carried names are labelled explicitly so a high score is never mistaken for fresh confirmation of an unchanged trend.

What is a growth trap in this screener?

A growth trap is a name whose reported growth looks healthy while a forward signal contradicts it. The detection covers revenue deceleration, margin compression, guidance cuts, outright guidance withdrawal and demand-side disruption. A withdrawn outlook ranks as the strongest negative signal, because it indicates management cannot forecast its own business.

How often is this growth screen updated?

The screen is rebuilt weekly and capped at 25 names, with each run compared against the previous one in the change log. Because fundamentals update on quarterly reporting cycles rather than weekly, entries and exits often reflect ranking pressure from fresher results rather than any deterioration in the departing name.

Data sources: company earnings releases and investor materials (Microchip Q1 FY27, Twilio, Paycom, Atlassian, Unity, Akamai) · FactSet Earnings Insight (7 August 2026) · CNBC · TheStreet · Charles Schwab Market Update · Yahoo Finance · Bloomberg · Reuters · StockStory · Zacks Equity Research · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · Bureau of Economic Analysis (Q2 GDP) · CME FedWatch.
Methodology: quality-growth framework — revenue-growth durability, earnings acceleration, Rule of 40 where computable from verified inputs, margin trend and thematic positioning. Growth-trap detection covers deceleration, margin compression, guidance cuts, guidance withdrawal and demand-side disruption. Stage classification is set by reported and guided growth rates, never by price action. Fundamentals reflect the latest reported quarter within the freshness window; carried names are labelled as such rather than presented as fresh confirmation.
Data freshness: fundamentals and catalysts verified through the 7 August 2026 close; published 13 August 2026. Quarterly metrics update on company reporting cycles — confirm live values before any action.

For informational and educational purposes only. This is a systematic data output, not investment advice. ESEN Analytics Systems is a research and analytics SaaS platform.
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