# The best stock to invest in right now, according to the finance accounts we track > The accounts with the best track records we track are 49-to-1 bullish on Nebius this week, at a score of 83. Nine days ago we printed the most-cited of them underwater on the name at $199; the stock is $228. The full shortlist, and the loud names the room refuses. By Maya Koeva · 2026-09-11  We do not give buy tips, and this is not one. What we do is read the conversation around thousands of companies and score how strong and credible it is. This is the answer to "what is the best stock to invest in right now" with the evidence attached: the name the accounts with the best track records we follow rate highest this week, and what that same room said when the stock was 14% cheaper. ## Why "best stock" needs a floor The raw top of our board this morning has AMD at 88 on ten mentions, Rocket Lab at 87 on six, and Palantir at 86 on ten. A [signal score](/learn/what-is-a-stock-signal) on a handful of posts is a reading of a small room, and a small room can be unanimous by accident. The shortlist below applies two floors before anyone is allowed to be "the best": at least 20 mentions from the accounts we track in the last seven days, and a graded split you can see. Graded means the bullish and bearish calls from accounts with a real [track record](/learn/how-a-track-record-is-graded): more than ten resolved calls, and more than half of them right. That second column is the one that matters. The score already weights by it; showing it lets you check the score's work. ## The shortlist this week Every name with a 7-day score of 80 or higher that clears the mention floor, with the graded split and the move since the September 2 close, the date of our last published Nebius read: | | Score | Mentions, 7d | Graded bull : bear | Since Sep 2 | |---|---:|---:|---:|---:| | Dell (DELL) | **88** | 25 | 11 : 0 | +2.9% | | Intel (INTC) | **87** | 54 | 12 : 0 | +11.4% | | SanDisk (SNDK) | **85** | 42 | 15 : 0 | +9.0% | | SK hynix (SKHY) | **84** | 37 | 6 : 0 | +14.1% | | Vistra (VST) | **84** | 25 | 4 : 0 | +2.5% | | Nebius (NBIS) | **83** | 88 | 49 : 1 | +11.8% | | Micron (MU) | **83** | 45 | 13 : 1 | +2.2% | | Credo (CRDO) | **83** | 24 | 8 : 0 | -3.0% | | Meta (META) | **82** | 94 | 12 : 0 | +8.7% | | Lumentum (LITE) | **82** | 33 | 16 : 0 | +7.5% | | Aehr Test Systems (AEHR) | **82** | 22 | 6 : 0 | +16.9% | | Alphabet (GOOG) | **81** | 30 | 5 : 0 | -1.0% | | Bloom Energy (BE) | **80** | 82 | 29 : 2 | +19.0% | | NVIDIA (NVDA) | **80** | 82 | 13 : 1 | -2.6% | | Tesla (TSLA) | **80** | 53 | 1 : 1 | +1.8% | | IREN (IREN) | **80** | 37 | 2 : 0 | +10.2% | Two things about the list. It is still mostly one trade: thirteen of the sixteen sit on the same theme, chips, memory, optics, and the servers and power that feed AI data centres, the complex the accounts we track have been leaning on since June, and Meta and Alphabet are the buyers of that hardware, so they are the same bet from the other side. Tesla is the odd one out, and its graded split, one bull to one bear, says the room has no view on it. The shortlist shows you where credible conviction is concentrated; it says nothing about diversification. And the graded column is doing most of the work. Vistra carries 84 on four graded calls, Tesla 80 on two. Nebius carries 83 on fifty. Those are not the same kind of reading, and the score alone does not show you the difference. Two rows come with a warning. Credo's room is 8-to-0 and the stock is still 35% below where it was on August 11; a high score on a falling stock is an open bet, and we count it as one. Dell's read arrived after its run. ## The answer: Nebius, and why it is not Intel Intel has the higher score, 87 against 83, and the cleaner month: $88.97 on September 1 to $100.32 on September 10, up 13% even after giving back 5.6% on the last day. Most of that came on September 8, when the stock jumped 9% on a report of another 10% price increase on PC processors and an upgrade to Outperform from Northland ([Yahoo Finance](https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/why-intel-stock-rallied-tuesday-154906533.html)). Over the last month the accounts we track ran 93 bullish to 13 bearish on Intel, and the graded subset 29 to 1. That is a real room, and Intel goes first on the table on merit. It is the runner-up here for one reason: most of this week's Intel conversation arrived with the move. The mention count nearly tripled from the prior week, and the largest single day of it was the day of the jump. The room's lean is real and it predates the rally, but the volume behind the 86 is partly the rally itself. When the crowd's attention and the price move on the same day, we say so, and we do not print it as foresight. If you want the room's earlier read on Intel, it is in **[the July piece on the crowd's split going into earnings](/blog/crowd-split-on-intel)**, when the bears still edged the bulls. Nebius is the deeper room. This week: 88 mentions, 70 bullish to 5 bearish, and 49 to 1 among graded accounts. Over thirty days: 663 mentions, 493 to 71, graded 237 to 16 across 22 accounts, more graded calls than any other name on the board. Five out of six of those mentions come from the finance accounts we track on X, spread across 50 handles. And unlike Intel's, the Nebius read has a paper trail: we published it twice while the stock was falling. ## What the room said when the stock was $199 Nebius closed at $277.68 on August 14. Twelve sessions later, on September 1, it closed at $199.54, down 28%. The AI-infrastructure complex sold off through the back half of August and Nebius went with it. Through that entire slide, the room did not move. From the August 14 session through September 1, the accounts we track produced 341 Nebius mentions running 242 bullish to 40 bearish, and the graded subset went 111 to 8 across 16 accounts. On no day in the window did graded bears outnumber graded bulls. A month earlier, the same shape had already played out once: **[the Nebius story we published on August 13](/blog/nebius-stock-sentiment)** graded a room that held close to 8-to-1 bullish through a 48% summer drawdown, and the stock came back 75% off the low. Then, on September 2, we published a profile of the single most-cited account on this blog, [CKCapitalxx](/blog/who-is-ckcapitalxx). Its Nebius book stood at 149 bullish posts to 7. The piece printed the stock at $199.54, "about 30% off its June high", and called the position an open bet, underwater. The number was in print while it was losing. Six days later, Palantir named Nebius its preferred sovereign-AI infrastructure partner ([Nebius newsroom](https://nebius.com/newsroom/palantir-and-nebius-partner-to-deliver-a-complete-sovereign-ai-stack-to-palantir-customers)), and the stock rose 7.7% on the session. It closed September 9 at $240.35, then gave back 5.1% on September 10 to $228.11, on a day the whole complex was red. *[Chart: Nebius daily closes, August 11 to September 10, 2026. The peak is August 14 at $277.68, the low September 1 at $199.54.]* Both scopes matter. From the price we printed on September 2, Nebius is up 14%. From the August 14 peak it is still down 18%, and it sits 12% below the close in our August 13 piece. No account in the table below called the top, and neither did we. The room refused to flip on a 28% drawdown, and the refusal paid. A credibility-weighted read shows you whose conviction survives a bad month; a mention counter shows you who is loudest this week. Since September 2 the room has, if anything, tightened: 111 mentions, 89 to 8, graded 57 to 1 across 13 accounts. Most of that came on the day of the Palantir news and the day after, so the same caveat we gave Intel applies to this week's volume. The difference is that the lean was already on the record. ## Who made the calls Some of the best graded accounts we track were behind the Nebius read over the last thirty days; six of the eight below rank in our top 20 by track record. Their resolved calls, and their bullish and bearish Nebius mentions in the window: | Account | Graded calls | Bullish | Bearish | |---|---:|---:|---:| | @Sandeman52 | 34 | 48 | 1 | | @daniel_koss | 333 | 32 | 1 | | @babyfolio | 295 | 29 | 1 | | @ren_stocks | 458 | 25 | 1 | | @itsalasdairmann | 32 | 20 | 4 | | @PhotonBull | 338 | 16 | 0 | | @CKCapitalxx | 766 | 16 | 2 | | @mvcinvesting | 74 | 14 | 0 | Read the second column before the third. A record of 766 graded calls and one of 34 are different amounts of evidence, and the [credibility weighting](/learn/what-is-a-credibility-score) behind the score treats them differently. The loudest bull in the table is not the one with the longest record, and the longest record, at 16 to 2, is one of the quieter voices on the name. ## What stocks to buy right now, if you go by volume instead The same week, sorted the other way: by how much the accounts we track are talking about a name rather than by what the graded accounts think of it. | | Mentions, 7d | Crowd bull : bear | Graded bull : bear | Score | |---|---:|---:|---:|---:| | Meta (META) | 94 | 60 : 23 | 12 : 0 | 82 | | Nike (NKE) | 92 | 22 : 55 | 0 : 1 | 19 | | Nebius (NBIS) | 88 | 70 : 5 | 49 : 1 | 83 | | NVIDIA (NVDA) | 82 | 52 : 21 | 13 : 1 | 80 | | Bloom Energy (BE) | 82 | 57 : 14 | 29 : 2 | 80 | Meta is the most-discussed stock in our coverage this week, on a new app rather than a number, and it earns its place on both lists: nearly three-to-one bullish in the crowd, 12 to 0 among graded accounts. Nike is second and the mirror image: two-and-a-half-to-one bearish, 82 of its 92 mentions from accounts with no graded record, and the one graded call in it a bear, which is how a stock ends up at 19. Apple, just off this table at 78 mentions, is the picture with no lean in it: 8 to 7 among graded accounts and a score of 56. "Most talked about" and "best" are different lists. Only one of them is weighted by who has been right before. This week they overlap on four of the five names, and the fifth, Nike, is the one that shows why the lists differ: the loudest room after Meta's, and almost none of it graded. A page that answers "what stocks to buy right now" by counting mentions gives you the first column. This page is built on the third. ## Where to check the live reading This page is a snapshot; the shortlist will look different in a week. The method outlasts it: filter by who has been right, and read the graded split before the mention count. If you want a process for turning a shortlist like this into a decision that is yours, start with **[how to pick stocks](/learn/how-to-pick-stocks)**, and for the reasons a raw sentiment feed will mislead you, [how to use social signals without getting played](/learn/how-to-use-social-signals-without-getting-played). See the live version of this table in Quantral, with every call behind each score and the record of the account that made it. --- *Mention counts and splits cover the accounts Quantral tracks through September 10, 2026, in rolling 24-hour windows; graded accounts have more than ten resolved calls, most of them right. Scores are the seven-day reading as of September 11, not historical values. Prices are closes through September 9. Positions attributed to accounts are their views, not Quantral's. Nothing here is financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell. Past signals are not indicative of future results.*