I wanted to find out which large cap stocks were having the most consistent upward momentum so I used Barchart to sort the S&P 500 Large Cap Stock Index to find the stocks that had the most frequent days of upward momentum. These 5 ranked highest:

Cimarex Energy (NYSE:XEC), Autozone (NYSE:AZO), EQT Corp (NYSE:EQT), Perkinelmer (PKI) and Nielsen Holdings (NLSN).

Cimarex Energy

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Barchart technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 14 new highs and up 17.10% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 68.94%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 121.85
• Recently traded at 125.32 with a 50 day moving average of 112.54

Autozone

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Barchart technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 14 new highs and up 9.13% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 70.17%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 693.78
• Recently traded at 699.01 with a 50 day moving average of 647.97

EQT Corp

Barchart technical indicators:

• 80% Barchart technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 14 new highs and up 11.12% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 63.59%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 82.99
• Recently traded at 84.41 with a 50 day moving average of 79.99

PerkinElmer

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Bachart technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 14 new highs and up 11.49% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 72.01%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 51.00
• Recently traded at 51.65 with a 50 day moving average of 47.98

Nielsen Holdings

Barchart technical indicators:

• 72% Barchart technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 14 new highs and up 6.53% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 64.57%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 45.52
• Recently traded at 45.69 with a 50 day moving average of 44.39