Best German Stocks: October 2026
Value 84: cheap on sales and cheap on P/E. Momentum 72: near its 52-week high and quarterly earnings growing. Quality 70: F-Score 9/9 and high gross profitability.
October 2026 edition · data as of ·2 new, 2 out, biggest climb SHF.DE since September·Next edition forms ·How we score stocks·How past rankings did·All Germany stocks, refreshed daily
Top 25 German Stocks by StockRank
- New in October 2026: Jenoptik AG JEN.DE, Krones AG KRN.DE
- Dropped out: Brenntag SE BNR.DE, KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA KWS.DE
- Biggest climbs: SNP Schneider-Neureither & Partner SE SHF.DE #21 to #14, Basler Aktiengesellschaft BSL.DE #25 to #20, Nagarro SE NA9.DE #20 to #16
- Biggest falls: TeamViewer SE TMV.DE #15 to #23, Evonik Industries AG EVK.DE #17 to #21, Fuchs SE FPE.DE #5 to #7
What changed since September: 2 new, 2 out
- New in October 2026: Jenoptik AG JEN.DE, Krones AG KRN.DE
- Dropped out: Brenntag SE BNR.DE, KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA KWS.DE
- Biggest climbs: SNP Schneider-Neureither & Partner SE SHF.DE #21 to #14, Basler Aktiengesellschaft BSL.DE #25 to #20, Nagarro SE NA9.DE #20 to #16
- Biggest falls: TeamViewer SE TMV.DE #15 to #23, Evonik Industries AG EVK.DE #17 to #21, Fuchs SE FPE.DE #5 to #7
| # | Stock | Yield | P/E | Score | Q | V | M | Style · Activity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yield 2.6% | P/E 9.4 | 100 Score | 70 Q | 84 V | 72 M | Full HouseDeep dive → | ||
| 2 | Momentum 79: near its 52-week high and quarterly earnings growing. Quality 76: low debt and F-Score 8/8. Value 67: cheap on EV/EBITDA and a high yield. | Yield 3.5% | P/E 27.7 | 99 Score | 76 Q | 67 V | 79 M | Full House | |
| 3 | Quality 77: F-Score 9/9 and strong free cash flow. Momentum 73: near its 52-week high and outperforming the market over 6 months. Value 70: a high yield and cheap on sales. | Yield 6.0% | P/E 18.4 | 99 Score | 77 Q | 70 V | 73 M | Full House | |
| 4 | Momentum 84: near its 52-week high and quarterly earnings growing. Value 71: cheap on P/E and cheap on EV/EBITDA. Quality 62: high gross profitability and F-Score 7/9. | Yield 3.3% | P/E 9.5 | 99 Score | 62 Q | 71 V | 84 M | Full House | |
| 5 | Value 83: cheap on sales and cheap on free cash flow. Momentum 73: above its moving averages and outperforming the market over 6 months. Quality 58: F-Score 8/9 but high debt. | Yield 0.7% | P/E 8.9 | 98 Score | 58 Q | 83 V | 73 M | Full House | |
| 6 | Quality 74: strong free cash flow and F-Score 8/9. Value 70: a high yield and cheap on free cash flow. Momentum 67: quarterly earnings growing and near its 52-week high. | Yield 13.0% | P/E 12.2 | 98 Score | 74 Q | 70 V | 67 M | Full House | |
| 7 | Quality 82: high gross profitability and strong free cash flow. Momentum 64: near its 52-week high and above its moving averages. Value 64: a high yield. | Yield 3.5% | P/E 13.6 | 98 Score | 82 Q | 64 V | 64 M | Full House | |
| 8 | Quality 84: strong free cash flow and F-Score 8/9. Value 74: cheap on EV/EBITDA and cheap on free cash flow. Momentum 51: estimates revised up but estimates cut. | Yield 0.7% | P/E 15.2 | 98 Score | 84 Q | 74 V | 51 M | Full House | |
| 9 | Quality 75: high gross profitability and F-Score 8/9. Momentum 71: near its 52-week high and estimates revised up. Value 62: cheap on EV/EBITDA. | Yield 2.8% | P/E 13.1 | 97 Score | 75 Q | 62 V | 71 M | Full HouseDir. buy | |
| 10 | Quality 75: high gross profitability and strong free cash flow. Momentum 75: near its 52-week high and above its moving averages. Value 54: cheap on free cash flow. | Yield 1.2% | P/E 27.5 | 96 Score | 75 Q | 54 V | 75 M | Full House | |
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| 11 | Quality 92: F-Score 9/9 and strong free cash flow. Value 61: cheap on free cash flow and cheap on EV/EBITDA. Momentum 51: estimates revised up but EPS deteriorating. | Yield 1.1% | P/E 12.2 | 96 Score | 92 Q | 61 V | 51 M | Full HouseDir. buyDeep dive → | |
| 12 | Momentum 81: near its 52-week high and above its moving averages. Value 64: cheap on free cash flow. Quality 56: strong free cash flow but high debt. | Yield 2.9% | P/E 14.5 | 96 Score | 56 Q | 64 V | 81 M | Full House | |
| 13 | Value 86: cheap on sales and cheap on free cash flow. Momentum 58: near its 52-week high but estimates cut. Quality 55: F-Score 8/9 but a tight balance sheet. | Yield 3.8% | P/E 11.7 | 95 Score | 55 Q | 86 V | 58 M | Full House | |
| 14 | Quality 74: high return on equity and ROIC in the top 10% of its sector. Momentum 62: near its 52-week high and quarterly earnings growing. Value 61: cheap on P/E and cheap on EV/EBITDA. | Yield — | P/E 13.4 | 94 Score | 74 Q | 61 V | 62 M | Full House | |
| 15 | Value 78: cheap on free cash flow and a high yield. Quality 59: high gross profitability but high debt. Momentum 59: near its 52-week high but estimates cut. | Yield 5.7% | P/E 8.5 | 94 Score | 59 Q | 78 V | 59 M | Full House | |
| 16 | Momentum 71: near its 52-week high and above its moving averages. Value 62: cheap on sales and cheap on free cash flow. Quality 62: high return on equity and ROIC in the top 25% of its sector. | Yield 1.3% | P/E 19.7 | 93 Score | 62 Q | 62 V | 71 M | Full House | |
| 17 | Momentum 73: near its 52-week high and outperforming the market over 6 months. Value 67: below book value and cheap on sales. Quality 55: F-Score 7/9. | Yield 2.8% | P/E 13.8 | 93 Score | 55 Q | 67 V | 73 M | Full House | |
| 18 | Momentum 69: near its 52-week high and above its moving averages. Value 69: cheap on sales and cheap on free cash flow. Quality 57: ROIC in the top 15% of its sector but a tight balance sheet. | Yield 1.9% | P/E 18.3 | 93 Score | 57 Q | 69 V | 69 M | Full House | |
| 19 | Momentum 75: near its 52-week high and estimates revised up. Value 60: cheap on sales and a high yield. Quality 59: high return on equity but high debt. | Yield 3.4% | P/E 17.1 | 92 Score | 59 Q | 60 V | 75 M | Full House | |
| 20 | Momentum 76: quarterly earnings growing and outperforming the market over 6 months. Quality 71: F-Score 8/9 and high gross profitability. Value 46: little or no yield. | Yield 0.5% | P/E 23.6 | 92 Score | 71 Q | 46 V | 76 M | Premium GrowerDir. buy | |
| 21 | Momentum 75: near its 52-week high and EPS improving. Value 64: a high yield and cheap on sales. Quality 53: F-Score 7/9 but high debt. | Yield 5.7% | P/E 66.6 | 92 Score | 53 Q | 64 V | 75 M | Full House | |
| 22 | Quality 72: F-Score 8/9 and high gross profitability. Value 63: cheap on free cash flow and cheap on EV/EBITDA. Momentum 57: near its 52-week high but quarterly earnings shrinking. | Yield 0.1% | P/E 12.1 | 92 Score | 72 Q | 63 V | 57 M | Full House | |
| 23 | Value 75: cheap on free cash flow and cheap on P/E. Quality 64: high return on equity and wide operating margins. Momentum 52: above its moving averages but estimates cut. | Yield — | P/E 8.1 | 91 Score | 64 Q | 75 V | 52 M | Full HouseDeep dive → | |
| 24 | Momentum 74: estimates revised up and above its moving averages. Value 58: mixed. Quality 56: interest well covered. | Yield 1.0% | P/E 26.2 | 90 Score | 56 Q | 58 V | 74 M | Full House | |
| 25 | Quality 75: F-Score 9/9 and high gross profitability. Value 69: cheap on EV/EBITDA and cheap on sales. Momentum 44: estimates revised up but estimates cut. | Yield 2.5% | P/E 11.9 | 90 Score | 75 Q | 69 V | 44 M | Unloved Quality | |
Ranked by StockRank (Quality + Value + Momentum composite) at a minimum market cap of $250M. Yield and P/E are as of the data date; click a ticker for today’s price and score. A new edition is generated on the first scoring run of each month.
Director buying reported in the 90 days to : CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA CWC.DE, Friedrich Vorwerk Group SE VH2.DE, Basler Aktiengesellschaft BSL.DE
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How Germany scores
Where the top 25 come from, and how the whole German market sits against the global universe. StockRank is a global percentile, so the universe splits evenly into five bands by construction; a market that piles up on the right is scoring well as a whole.
Top 25 by sector
- Technology8
- Industrials7
- Consumer Cyclical4
- Healthcare4
- Basic Materials2
Share of German stocks by StockRank band
- 0-193% / 20%
- 20-3917% / 20%
- 40-5923% / 20%
- 60-7927% / 20%
- 80-10031% / 20%
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The Mittelstand Is Listed, If You Look
Germany is Europe's industrial engine trading at a cyclical-pessimism discount: world-leading names in software, industrial technology, chemicals and defence, plus a listed Mittelstand tail of niche global champions most screens never touch. The list below is where the factors line up.
MoatMap scored 235 German stocks on 2026-10-01; 186 cleared the $250M market-cap floor this list applies. The market's average StockRank is 64. Healthcare is the most represented sector in the top 10 (3 names).
Germany's headline names span both extremes of the quality spectrum: enterprise software and industrial technology franchises with global pricing power on one end, and cyclical autos and chemicals wrestling with energy costs and Chinese competition on the other. The market prices the whole exchange off the second group's problems, which is precisely the setup a factor screen is built for: the Quality score separates the franchises from the restructurings.
The deeper opportunity is the listed Mittelstand. Germany's economic model is built on niche world leaders in measurement instruments, machine components, speciality chemicals and industrial services, and a meaningful number of them are public, family-influenced, and covered by almost nobody. These names dominate the German screen output far more often than the DAX heavyweights, and defence-and-electrification spending has given many of them a structural order-book tailwind.
Practical notes: Germany withholds tax on dividends to foreign investors (typically reduced to 15% under treaties, with a refund process for the rest), and disclosure runs through the EU market-abuse regime. Directors' dealings file with BaFin and MoatMap ingests that register; German buyback disclosure has no central daily register, so buyback signals here are sparser than in the UK or Hong Kong.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What are the top-ranked German stocks right now?
- The table above ranks MoatMap's top 25 German-listed stocks by StockRank, a composite of Quality, Value and Momentum percentiles. It refreshes monthly with a stated data date, and each ticker links to a full score breakdown.
- Aren't German stocks all struggling autos and chemicals?
- The cyclical giants get the headlines, but Germany also lists Europe's most valuable software company, global leaders in industrial technology and defence, and a deep Mittelstand tail of niche champions. The screen's output usually comes from that tail, where the businesses are healthier than the country narrative suggests.
- How do I buy German stocks from abroad?
- Most international brokers offer direct XETRA access (tickers like SAP.DE), and several large caps trade as US ADRs. Direct access matters here more than in most markets, because the interesting Mittelstand names have no ADR and modest volumes even on XETRA.
- What about German dividend withholding tax?
- Germany withholds roughly 26% on dividends at source, typically reduced to 15% for treaty-country residents, with the difference reclaimable through a refund process that varies by broker. German companies also skew toward a single annual dividend paid after the AGM, rather than quarterly payouts.
- How often does this Germany ranking refresh?
- A new edition forms on the first scoring run of each calendar month and the page states its data-as-of date. For a daily view, use the ranked-stocks screener filtered to Germany.