Agnico Eagle and Schwab Join 16 Others on IBD Watchlists

Investor's Business Daily added Agnico Eagle Mines, Charles Schwab and 16 other stocks to its growth-stock watchlists on September 15, 2026, with AEM last at 196.90 (-0.33%) and SCHW at 107.79 (+0.45%) as of the 20:00 GMT close.

Investor's Business Daily has refreshed its growth-stock watchlists, and the September 15 update put Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM) and Charles Schwab (SCHW) on the roster alongside 16 other names. That makes 18 additions in a single pass — a sizeable intake for screens that are built to hold only stocks clearing a combination of earnings, sales and relative price-strength hurdles.

The pairing is the interesting part. A Canadian-rooted gold producer and a U.S. discount brokerage sit at opposite ends of what most investors would call a growth universe. One sells an inert metal whose price is set in London and New York; the other sells trading accounts, cash management and advisory infrastructure to retail investors. That both cleared the same screens on the same day says something about where earnings momentum is currently showing up in this market.

How the two names finished the session

Trading has closed. As of the last trade at 20:00 GMT on September 15, 2026, Agnico Eagle Mines was quoted at 196.90, down 0.33% from its prior close of 197.55, after swinging between 193.80 and 198.18 during the day. That is a wide intraday band for a stock that finished within a third of a percent of where it started — the mark of a session in which buyers and sellers traded the same shares back and forth without resolving much.

Charles Schwab closed higher, at 107.79, up 0.45% from a prior close of 107.31. Its day range ran from 106.91 to 109.56, meaning the stock gave back most of an early advance before the bell. The intraday high sat comfortably above the close, so anyone reading the tape as a clean breakout would be overstating it.

Both finished ahead of the broad market on a relative basis. The S&P 500 tracker (SPY) ended at $757.39, off 0.46% against a prior close of $760.88. The Nasdaq 100 tracker (QQQ) fell 0.65% to $704.54, and the Dow tracker (DIA) dropped 0.62% to $521.23. Schwab rose on a day when all three major benchmarks fell; Agnico Eagle declined by less than any of them. Relative strength on a down day is precisely the kind of behaviour the IBD methodology is designed to flag.

What gets a stock onto these lists

IBD's growth screens are not discretionary picks in the conventional sense. They are rules-based filters that rank stocks on quantitative measures — the trajectory of quarterly and annual earnings, sales growth, return on equity, and how a stock's price action compares with the rest of the market over a trailing period. Names enter when they clear thresholds and leave when they stop clearing them. The lists turn over.

The practical consequence for readers is that inclusion is a description, not a prediction. A stock appearing on a growth watchlist is being identified as having already delivered improving fundamentals and already outperformed. Whether it continues to do either is a separate question that no screen answers. The full roster of additions is set out by Investors Business Daily.

It also matters that these screens are momentum-aware. Relative price strength is an input. That creates a mechanical tendency for lists like these to fill up with whatever has been working — which is useful information about market leadership, and a hazard if an investor treats a screen as a substitute for judgment about valuation or cyclicality.

A gold miner and a broker, and what each depends on

Agnico Eagle's fundamentals are, at the operating level, a function of two things it does not control: the realised price of gold and the cost of pulling it out of the ground. When bullion runs, miners' earnings run harder, because costs are comparatively fixed and every incremental dollar of price falls close to the bottom line. That operating leverage is why gold producers periodically show up on growth screens despite being, structurally, resource businesses rather than compounders. The same leverage works in reverse when the metal turns.

Charles Schwab's earnings engine is different. A brokerage of its scale earns from net interest on client cash balances, from asset-management and administration fees on the money it custodies, and from trading activity. Each of those lines is sensitive to a different variable — the level of short-term rates, the level of equity markets, and how actively retail investors are transacting. A screen that rewards accelerating earnings will pick up brokers when rates, market levels and client engagement are pulling in the same direction.

Neither business is a technology story, which is worth noting on a day the Nasdaq 100 tracker fell more than the S&P 500 tracker. Growth-stock screening has become shorthand for software and semiconductors in much of the market commentary. The composition of this particular update is a reminder that the underlying rules do not care about sector labels.

What to watch from here

For Agnico Eagle, the variable that matters most is the gold price, and after it, the cost line in the next set of quarterly production results. A miner that is growing earnings purely on price will look very different from one growing on volume and cost discipline once the metal stops cooperating. The intraday range on the last session — a spread of nearly five points between low and high, closing near the middle — suggests the market has not settled on which of those it is buying.

For Schwab, the questions are the path of short-term interest rates, because that sets what the firm earns on client cash, and whether client asset balances keep building. Both are external. The stock's ability to close green on a session when the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100 and Dow trackers all fell is the sort of divergence worth tracking over several sessions rather than reading into a single one.

More broadly, a batch of 18 names entering growth screens in one update is itself a data point. Screens fill when breadth improves and empty when leadership narrows. Investors who follow these lists as a market-health indicator will be watching whether the additions stick over the coming weeks or whether the same names cycle back off — the turnover rate usually says more than any individual entry.

Nothing here constitutes a recommendation. A watchlist is a starting point for work, not the end of it, and the two named stocks carry entirely different risk profiles despite arriving on the same list on the same day.

Frequently asked questions

How many stocks were added to the IBD watchlists?

Eighteen in total. Investor's Business Daily named Agnico Eagle Mines and Charles Schwab among the additions, plus 16 other stocks, in its September 15, 2026 update to its growth-stock lists. These screens turn over regularly as names clear or fail the underlying earnings, sales and relative-strength criteria the methodology applies.

Where did Agnico Eagle Mines close?

Agnico Eagle Mines was last quoted at 196.90, down 0.33% from a prior close of 197.55, as of the final trade at 20:00 GMT on September 15, 2026. The stock traded between 193.80 and 198.18 during the session, finishing roughly mid-range after a comparatively wide intraday swing.

How did Charles Schwab trade that day?

Charles Schwab finished at 107.79, up 0.45% from its prior close of 107.31, as of the 20:00 GMT close on September 15, 2026. Its day range was 106.91 to 109.56, so the stock surrendered a good part of its intraday gain before the session ended, though it still closed higher.

What criteria put a stock on an IBD growth list?

The screens are rules-based rather than discretionary. They rank companies on quantitative measures including quarterly and annual earnings growth, sales growth, return on equity, and how a stock's price performance compares with the broader market over a trailing period. Stocks enter when they clear the thresholds and drop off when they no longer do.

Does inclusion on a watchlist mean the stock will rise?

No. Inclusion describes what a stock has already done — improving fundamentals and price performance ahead of the market — rather than forecasting what comes next. Because relative price strength is an input, these screens naturally fill with recent winners, which is useful for spotting leadership but is not a substitute for valuation work.

How did the broad market perform on the same day?

All three major benchmark trackers fell. The S&P 500 tracker closed at $757.39, down 0.46%; the Nasdaq 100 tracker ended at $704.54, down 0.65%; and the Dow tracker finished at $521.23, down 0.62%. Against that, Schwab closed higher and Agnico Eagle fell less than any of the three benchmarks.

Sources

• Agnico Eagle Mines, Charles Schwab, 16 Other Stocks Added To IBD Watchlists — Investors Business Daily

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