Power Trends+: Is Your Requested Stock a Healthy Choice?
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I try hard to make healthy choices. I exercise regularly and developed my own recipe for a morning smoothie. And yes, an Excel spreadsheet was involved.
I’m sure you also try to make healthy choices, and there’s an app for pretty much everything these days, including fitness apps that help track our daily calories and steps.
Lucas Downey’s wife just introduced him to Yuka, a pretty cool app in which you can quickly search any food product and get a rating of zero to 100. The higher, the healthier.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have something like that to make healthy choices when investing in stock?
Actually, there is. Yuka is kind of the fitness version of the Quantum Score. Luke steps into the hot seat in today’s Power Trends+ and shows you how it works. He’ll run through eight different stocks and show you exactly why each scores the way it does.
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Transcript
Let’s have a little fun this week with Power Trends+.
I’m gonna tell you a little story. I’ve been on this health kick in 2025 and I’ve basically been doing a push-up challenge, a squat challenge, and I’ve been watching what I eat. Now, my wife showed me this app that I can go into any store, put the camera on the barcode, and it gives me a score from 0 to 100 on the quality of the product.
So if it’s a low score, that means that it’s got a lot of added preservatives. It’s got all types of fake chemicals that are in the food. Anything that is high, like 80, 90, or 100, it tells you this is great for you. Shouldn’t we be doing this with stocks? We absolutely should. And I’ll tell you what, I have been loving this app. It’s called Yuca. Literally everything that I eat, it has to have a high score, and this is exactly the framework that you need for stocks.
So today we’re gonna go over maybe a record number of stocks—we’re gonna go through 8 stocks. I haven’t even done any due diligence. All I’m going to do is I’m gonna look at the score, I’m gonna look at the chart, and then I’m gonna tell you why it scores the way it does.
So the number one stock that we’re gonna be going into is Mind, and this is Mind Technology. You can see right there, it’s got a Quantum Score of 72.4. So right off the bat, that is in the green zone. Now, if we go over here and we look at the chart, what do we see? Well, first thing I see is it is below $10. Just so you guys know, on institutional trading desks, below $10 stocks are ultimately red flags. That just tells you that there is a lot of risk in this name. But let’s try and figure out why this stock is scoring 72.
The first thing is it’s got a $75 million market cap, so that is tiny. That means this thing is going to whip around like crazy. Why this is scoring so well is because they have lost a lot of money over the last 12 months. They are expected to turn a profit in the next 12 months. Anytime you see that, that means that the stock is probably on its way higher. So Mind, for now, is going to be in the buy zone.
Let’s go ahead and get to our next stock, and this is ticker CHRD. Cod Energy, Cord Energy. It’s got a 43, so that tells us right now there is no way this thing is going to be a buy. So let’s go ahead and check on the chart real quick. Plug it up right here, CHRD. Cord Energy, right? It takes literally 2 seconds to look at a chart. On a one-year basis, what do you see? It looks like it’s the highway to hell, and here’s the problem. Over the next 12 months, the company is expected to have a 33% haircut in earnings. A year after that, another 20%. If you’re not growing earnings, the stock is going to have trouble going up. So this one is a no-go.
Let’s go ahead and look at the number 3 stock, and this is CPA. It’s got a cool acronym here. It’s an airliner, Copa Holdings, and it’s got a 65.5. I’m gonna put my little database over here. This is kind of telling me everything I need to know about this company. But let’s go ahead and check out the chart. Copa makes me wanna sing like Copa Copa. We go. Let’s get to the chart. Airlines. I do like the new charting and Tradesmith, by the way. Listen, this is a bumpy ride, a lot of turbulence in this stock, and that is probably why it’s not in the 70s. It’s got a lot of potential earnings growth right now. I’m looking at the last 12 months, $14.56 in earnings. Next 12 months is 15.80. You get 11% growth after that, 12% growth. This is actually a very, very cheap stock. The current PE is 6. The forward PE is 6.1%. It’s got decent margin expansion. It’s a good stock under the hood. However, this much turbulence tells us it’s probably a no-go. I’m gonna give it kind of like a minus.
Let’s keep going. The number 4 stock is GO. Now I do know this one. This is one of those stocks where it’s prisons and things like that, and they get hot from time to time depending on what is going on in the news media. You know, if people are expected to go to prison or there’s gonna be some arrests, you’ll see the stock start to pop. Let’s go ahead and look at the chart. I love how this comes on people’s radar. I can tell you right now, just from muscle memory, this is not gonna be the winning stock in my opinion. Let’s just look at the chart real quick.
Alright, so we do have a nice little liftoff phase here, but again, why is it a 46? Oh man, and it tells you right off the bat, this thing literally is a low-margin business. So apparently, you’re not printing dollars whenever you are a prison company. It’s got a lot of debt, right? So think about that. If there is a problem in terms of interest rates starting to go higher, this company could be in trouble. It does have, on the positive side, a lot of built-in earnings growth for estimates. Over the next year, the sales are projected to be flat, but if you go out a year or two after that, it’s going to go up in the double digits, 14%, 18%. So this tells you this could be a good play a year plus from now, but for now, this one we’re going to keep behind bars.
Let’s keep going. We have 2 more. Toyota—so this is an auto manufacturer. Everybody sees Toyotas everywhere. Let’s look at the chart here. Toyota. I haven’t thought about this name in well over a decade. I feel like I was looking at this stock 10 years ago as something to compare against Tesla, if you can believe that. This is a flatliner of a name. Again, I haven’t done anything in this name for a while, and let’s see here. Yeah, here’s the problem. The problem is, listen, it does make decent money and it trades at a 10 PE, which is relatively cheap. There’s no earnings growth, even for two years out. There’s no earnings growth. That’s all you need to know. It’s got a nice dividend yield, but that is not enough to buy this stock. So we’re gonna just move on from Toyota. I think the cars are great, but I don’t think it’s gonna help your portfolio.
And then last but not least, let’s end on a high note. Let’s talk about Victory Capital. This is VCTR. It’s got a 72—that is in the buy zone. Let’s go ahead and check out the chart. Victory. It’s a cool name, right? See what this thing is all about. It’s got a $4.4 billion market cap. Beautiful chart. That is gorgeous. Tons and tons of earnings growth is all you need to know. Analysts seem to be relatively upbeat on this company. It’s got a 2.4% dividend yield, huge margin. This must be a profitable business. They do ETF model strategies, separate accounts, and insurance products. Of course, this is gonna be super hot right now. This is definitely the best name of the bunch and that is a victory.
You guys have a great one. I’ll talk to you next time.
Talk soon,
Jason Bodner,
Editor, Jason Bodner’s Power Trends