Ten spots on the Performance Score leaderboard is not the full story. Seventeen stocks are tied at a perfect 10.0 Performance Score in the Stoxcraft universe right now, and metals are doing most of the heavy lifting.
Copper stocks average a 9.2 Performance Score today, the highest of any industry we track. Gold miners sit just behind at 9.1. Almost nothing else comes close.
The Performance Score measures how a stock's price has done against the entire Stoxcraft universe of roughly 3,900 stocks, blending returns from the past month out to five years. A 5.0 is dead average.
Above 9.0 means a stock is beating almost every other name on the platform. Right now, the commodities trade is producing more of those scores than any other corner of the market.
The top 10 stocks by Performance Score right now
Evolution Mining and Advantest Corporation share the very top of the board, both tied at a perfect 10.0. Revolution Medicines (RVMD) and Amerigo Resources (ARG.TO) sit right there with them. So do K92 Mining (KNT.TO) and China Gold International, also locked at the max.
DPM Metals rounds out the metals side of the list. Palo Alto Networks (PANW) and Acadian Asset Management (AAMI) hold the same score from a completely different corner of the market. WisdomTree (WT) completes the top 10.
That list is really a snapshot of a much bigger tie. Seven more names sit at the exact same 10.0 score just outside this cut, and the pattern holds: Trekor Metals (TGB) keeps the copper story going, while Eldorado Gold (EGO) and Iamgold (IAG) add two more gold miners to the pile.
When this many stocks max out the scale at once, it tells you the score is doing its job. Price momentum across the whole market has genuinely been that lopsided.
Why copper and gold are running away with it
Copper has spent 2026 setting records almost on schedule. The benchmark three-month contract traded above $14,100 a tonne this month, up close to 14% for the year, while cash copper briefly touched a record near $14,500 on tight London warehouse stockpiles and mine disruptions in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Buyers have been rerouting shipments toward the US ahead of possible new tariffs, which has only tightened supply further. That's the kind of setup that shows up directly in a stock's price, and a stock's price is what the Performance Score measures.
Gold is telling a similar story from a different angle. Gold hit a more than three month high this week as investors weighed fresh inflation data and waited on the Fed chair's Jackson Hole speech.
Add in ongoing concerns about the US debt picture and demand for gold as a safe haven, and it's not hard to see why gold miners keep printing scores in the high 9s and low 10s. Copper futures have shown the same pattern, holding near their own highs even as short term volatility ticks up.
For Amerigo Resources, K92 Mining, and Trekor Metals, the fundamental story and the price action are pointing the same direction for now. That won't last forever. Commodity cycles turn, sometimes fast, and a Performance Score built entirely on price will turn with them.
Two sectors outside metals are just as hot
Metals are not the whole leaderboard, and that matters. Palo Alto Networks, Revolution Medicines, and Acadian Asset Management all hold a perfect 10.0 Performance Score too, spread across cybersecurity software, clinical stage biotech, and asset management. Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals (KNSA) makes it four. Another clinical-stage name posting a perfect score, from a different pocket of healthcare entirely. For a biotech like this, a max score usually traces back to a trial readout or a takeover rumor that sent the stock sharply higher in a short window, a very different kind of momentum than a gold miner riding a year-long commodity trend, even though the Performance Score treats both the same way.
WisdomTree sits right alongside them. None of these businesses have anything to do with mining, which is the point. Strong price momentum is showing up in pockets across the market, not just in one trade.
That breadth cuts against the idea that this is purely a commodities story. A biotech name and a cybersecurity firm hitting the same ceiling as a gold miner suggests the market is rewarding strength wherever it finds it right now, not chasing a single theme.
Not every industry is invited to this rally. Banks - Diversified stocks average just a 7.4 Performance Score, the widest gap on the board. Even BBVA (BBVA), the strongest bank stock in our coverage this week, still trails every one of the 17 stocks tied at the top.
That contrast is the real headline here. This looks like a commodities and momentum rally, not a market wide one.
How to run this screen yourself
Every number in this article came straight from the Stoxcraft Screener, and you can filter it the exact same way. Set the metric to Performance Score, sort high to low, and you'll see the same wall of 9s and 10s topped by copper and gold names.
From there, narrow by sector or industry to check how your own holdings stack up against their peers, not just against the whole market. A Performance Score only tells part of the story on its own. Pair it with Health Score and Risk Score before drawing any conclusions about a stock's overall picture.
Watch whether copper and gold can hold these levels once the Fed speaks at Jackson Hole. A shift in rate expectations could cool the trade that built this leaderboard in the first place.
