Building an investment portfolio from scratch can be difficult, especially if you're new to investing. It's easy to feel overwhelmed with so many different investment options out there, but focusing on stocks that are set to outperform the market over the next 12 months is an excellent place to start.

Let's now take a look at one standout stock that could be a perfect fit for your portfolio.

Why You Should Pay Attention to Virtu Financial (VIRT)

Headquartered in New York, NY, Virtu Financial is a market-leading financial services firm that leverages cutting-edge technology to provide execution services and data, analytics and connectivity products to its clients and deliver liquidity to the global markets. It provides a wide array of offerings in execution, liquidity sourcing, analytics and broker-neutral, multi-dealer platforms in workflow technology. The company was founded in 2008.

Since being added to the Zacks Focus List on July 31, 2023 at $18.90 per share, shares of VIRT have increased 98.84% to $37.58.

For fiscal 2025, six analysts revised their earnings estimate upwards in the last 60 days, and the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.46 to $3.69. VIRT boasts an average earnings surprise of 25.1%.

Earnings for Virtu Financial are forecasted to see growth of 3.9% for the current fiscal year as well.

Since stock prices respond to earnings estimate revisions, it can be very profitable to buy stocks with an increased earnings outlook. By buying a Focus List stock like VIRT, then, you're likely getting into a company whose future earnings estimates will be raised, potentially leading to price momentum.

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