It doesn't matter your age or experience: taking full advantage of the stock market and investing with confidence are common goals for all investors.

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?

Different than value or growth investors, momentum-oriented investors live by the saying "the trend is your friend." This investing style is all about taking advantage of upward or downward trends in a stock's price or earnings outlook. Employing factors like one-week price change and the monthly percentage change in earnings estimates, the Momentum Style Score can indicate favorable times to build a position in high-momentum stocks.

Curtiss-Wright (CW)

North Carolina-based Curtiss-Wright Corporation, incorporated in July 1929, is a diversified multinational company that designs and overhauls precision components. It provides highly engineered products and services for high-performance platforms, and critical applications in key areas such as commercial aerospace and defense electronics, reactor coolant pumps for next-generation nuclear reactors as well as advanced surface treatment technologies. The company’s products and services are offered to the aerospace, defense, general industrial and power generation markets.

CW boasts a Momentum Style Score of A and VGM Score of A, and holds a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) rating. Shares of Curtiss-Wright has seen some interesting price action recently; the stock is down 1.5% over the past one week and up 5.8% over the past four weeks. And in the last one-year period, CW has gained 33.8%. As for the stock's trading volume, 167,151.55 shares on average were traded over the last 20 days.

A company's earnings performance is important for momentum investors as well. For fiscal 2024, four analysts revised their earnings estimate higher in the last 60 days for CW, while the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.12 to $10.13 per share. CW also boasts an average earnings surprise of 7.7%.

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

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