📂 MONDAY – New-Year Reset Screener: “Fresh Leadership Candidates”

The final trading days of the year are when new leadership quietly starts to form. Tax effects fade, books reset, and capital begins rotating toward next year’s winners—often before January officially begins.

Today’s Intel Drop screens for stocks showing early leadership traits: improving momentum, stabilizing fundamentals, and valuation reset after a muted 2025.

Use this to build a first-look watchlist for 2026 leadership before the crowd catches on.

PROMPT TEXT:

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

You are screening for “Fresh Leadership Candidates” as of December 29, 2025.

Goal:
Identify 12–20 U.S. stocks positioned to emerge as early leaders in the first weeks of 2026.

Filters:

1) Price & Momentum Reset
- Flat to mildly positive returns in Q4 (not parabolic)
- Positive momentum over the last 10–20 trading days
- Above 50-day moving average or recently reclaimed it

2) Fundamental Inflection
- Evidence of stabilizing or accelerating revenue or EPS trends
- Margins flat to improving
- No major earnings disappointments in the last quarter

3) Valuation Reset
- Forward valuation below its own 3–5 year median
- Multiple compression already occurred in 2024–2025

4) Liquidity & Size
- Market cap > $5B
- Average daily dollar volume > $30M

Output:

1) WATCHLIST TABLE:
- Ticker
- Company
- Sector
- Recent Momentum Note
- Fundamental Trend
- Valuation vs History
- Why it qualifies as a “Fresh Leader”

2) Summary (3–5 sentences):
- Why leadership often forms before January
- What differentiates real leaders from dead cats
- How to use this list in early January

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

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