FactSet Rising Stars Index

The Strategy

The FactSet Rising Stars strategy first navigates the top 3000 securities by market capitalization that are listed on the NYSE and Nasdaq exchanges and vets them for liquidity standards. Next, we look at the securities recent year over year revenue growth rate vs the average annual revenue growth rate they need to achieve over the next decade to justify their current price-to-sales ratios. We then look at the market share growth rate each company has demonstrated year over year within each subindustry, according to “RBICS” classifications, in technology. We then look at the growth rate for each subindustry as a whole for which each company participates in. Lastly, we look at each company’s year over year growth rate of their operating margins. We score each company by each aforementioned pillar, based on those growth rates. The top 100 are selected into the final index and are weighted by those scores relative to each other.