Launching Stockrankr on Product Hunt this Tuesday (Sep 15) — here's a preview.

Here's a challenge: take 3 minutes and try to find which US stock had the highest return over the last 6 months. I couldn't do it easily either — which is exactly why I built Stockrankr.

Rankings exist for almost everything — sports, cars, hotels — based on objective results. I think stocks and ETFs need the same treatment. There’s plenty of subjective opinion and black-box ratings nobody can check, yet investing should start with the hard facts.

Long before founding Stockrankr, I lost money in the dot-com bubble. That led me to Benjamin Graham's ideas on price vs. value, margin-of-safety, and to Warren Buffett's first rule — don't lose money. But finding the basic data for a proper comparison wasn't easy — it could take hours to download one annual report on a dial-up modem. That difficulty never really went away, despite all the new tech.

I have also found Drawdown — how much an equity has dropped — more relevant to people than volatility for assessing risk. And in 2010 published the Risk-Return Ratio (RRR) — return divided by drawdown, a formula checkable by anyone on Wikipedia.

Stockrankr ranks 10,000+ US stocks and ETFs daily by Return, Drawdown, and RRR. Every security also gets its own Stockrankr Matrix™ — a 3×3 grid across three timeframes to highlight consistent performance.

Did you find the stock from the challenge? Drop it in the comments — I'll tell you if you got it right. Or just go and check yourself. It's free.

get.stockrankr.com/app