Composite Score
The 1–100 headline number that summarizes a stock's quantitative attractiveness across five factor categories.
Definition
A composite score is a single number from 1 to 100 that aggregates how a stock looks on five different dimensions: how cheap it is, how fast it's growing, how strong its recent price action is, how profitable the underlying business is, and how risky the stock is. Higher is better.
Most quant scoring systems combine multiple factors into one headline number for a simple reason: each factor on its own gives a one-dimensional view. A stock that looks cheap on a value basis might have falling earnings; a stock with strong momentum might be wildly overvalued. A composite forces those views to be reconciled into one verdict.
The 1–100 range is convention, not magic. Internally the score is a weighted average of category scores, each of which is itself an average of underlying metric scores. The endpoints (1 and 100) represent stocks roughly three standard deviations from the sector average on every metric.
How QScoring uses it
QScoring computes two composites and averages them. The long-term composite weights fundamentals (Value 30% / Growth 20% / Profitability 25% / Momentum 5% / Risk 20%); the short-term composite weights the technical side (Momentum 40% / Risk 25% / Growth 15% / Value 10% / Profitability 10%). The headline QScore is the average of the two — see the combining section for the full weight table.