Best stocks of 2026 so far

The S&P 500's biggest 2026 winners, ranked by year-to-date return · Updated November 05, 2026

As of November 05, 2026, Moderna (MRNA) is the best-performing S&P 500 stock of 2026 so far, up +718.79% year to date. Below are the 25 best stocks of 2026 so far, ranked by year-to-date return and refreshed every trading day.

Rank	Company	Ticker	Price	YTD return
1	Moderna	MRNA	$241.46	+718.79%
2	Sandisk	SNDK	$806.43	+239.72%
3	Dell Technologies	DELL	$316.91	+154.06%
4	Marathon Petroleum	MPC	$377.32	+134.70%
5	Micron Technology	MU	$656.39	+130.11%
6	Valero Energy	VLO	$351.23	+118.95%
7	Okta, Inc.	OKTA	$171.16	+97.94%
8	Phillips 66	PSX	$247.04	+95.45%
9	Bloom Energy	BE	$167.52	+92.80%
10	Advanced Micro Devices	AMD	$404.40	+88.83%
11	Hewlett Packard Enterprise	HPE	$44.16	+86.04%
12	CrowdStrike	CRWD	$217.20	+85.34%
13	APA Corporation	APA	$43.48	+81.92%
14	Centene Corporation	CNC	$74.17	+80.24%
15	DaVita	DVA	$194.82	+71.48%
16	Palo Alto Networks	PANW	$314.67	+70.83%
17	Seagate Technology	STX	$466.53	+69.82%
18	Target Corporation	TGT	$157.95	+66.04%
19	Texas Instruments	TXN	$278.15	+63.02%
20	Humana	HUM	$411.79	+61.97%
21	NetApp	NTAP	$169.38	+60.24%
22	Stanley Black & Decker	SWK	$115.27	+59.96%
23	Illumina, Inc.	ILMN	$208.00	+58.58%
24	Marvell Technology	MRVL	$133.55	+57.39%
25	Charles River Laboratories	CRL	$313.02	+56.92%

New in 2026

No new-in-2026 S&P 500 additions with price history yet. The 2026 S&P 500 additions (FDXF and HONA, both 2026 spin-offs) have no December 31, 2025 price, so they cannot be measured on a genuine year-to-date basis, and are excluded rather than ranked on invented data. When a 2026 addition with a full price history appears, it will be listed here.

YTD measured from the December 31, 2025 close (markets were closed January 1, 2026), adjusted for splits and dividends; source: Yahoo Finance.

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