📂 MONDAY – Operating Leverage Screener: “Revenue Turning Into Profit”

Revenue growth is good. Revenue that turns into accelerating profits is better.

As companies enter Q2 earnings season, those demonstrating improving operating leverage often produce the largest earnings surprises because incremental sales begin flowing directly to the bottom line.

Today's Intel Drop screens for businesses where operating leverage appears to be improving before earnings are released.

Use this to identify companies whose profitability may surprise Wall Street.

💡PROMPT TEXT:

(copy & paste the below text into your preferred AI model: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Meta, etc.)

You are screening for “Operating Leverage Expansion” opportunities as of June 29, 2026.

Goal:
Identify 12–20 U.S. stocks where operating leverage appears to be improving ahead of Q2 earnings.

Filters:

1) Revenue Trends
- Revenue growth stable or accelerating
- Sequential improvement

2) Margin Expansion
- Operating margin improving over last 2–4 quarters
- SG&A growing slower than revenue
- Gross margins stable or expanding

3) Earnings Potential
- Analysts forecasting moderate earnings growth
- Opportunity for operating leverage surprise

4) Technical Confirmation
- Relative strength improving
- Price holding above 50-day moving average

5) Liquidity
- Market cap > $5B
- Average daily dollar volume > $35M

Output:

WATCHLIST TABLE

- Ticker
- Company
- Sector
- Revenue Trend
- Operating Margin Trend
- Operating Leverage Rating
- Why margins may surprise

Finish with:

- Why operating leverage matters late in an earnings cycle
- How investors distinguish structural improvements from temporary cost cutting
- What metrics deserve the closest attention

Output in a clean table + 3–5 sentence explanation why this matters right now.

END PROMPT

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