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Achieving those goals is made easier with the Zacks Style Scores, a unique set of guidelines that rates stocks based on popular investing methodologies, namely value, growth, and momentum. The Style Scores can help you narrow down which stocks are better for your portfolio and which ones can beat the market over the long-term.

Is This 1 Momentum Stock a Screaming Buy Right Now?

For momentum investors, upward or downward trends in a stock's price or earnings outlook take precedent, so they'll want to zero in on the Momentum Style Score. This Score can pinpoint good times to build a position in a stock, using factors like one-week price change and the monthly percentage change in earnings estimates.

American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL)

Detroit-based American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. is a leading supplier of driveline and drivetrain systems, modules and components for the light vehicle market. It manufactures Driveline and Metal Forming technologies to support electric, hybrid and internal combustion vehicles. The company operates with around 75 facilities in 18 countries. American Axle’s major customers include General Motors, Stellantis and Ford. 

AXL boasts a Momentum Style Score of B and VGM Score of A, and holds a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) rating. Shares of American Axle & Manufacturing has seen some interesting price action recently; the stock is up 23.8% over the past one week and up 2.8% over the past four weeks. And in the last one-year period, AXL has lost 19.3%. As for the stock's trading volume, 2,845,990.75 shares on average were traded over the last 20 days.

A company's earnings performance is important for momentum investors as well. For fiscal 2025, one analyst revised their earnings estimate higher in the last 60 days for AXL, while the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.03 to $0.57 per share. AXL also boasts an average earnings surprise of 928.8%.

Investors should take the time to consider AXL for their portfolios due to its solid Zacks Ranks, notable earnings metrics, and impressive Momentum and VGM Style Scores.

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