2026 S&P 500 Rankings
One S&P 500 stock is up 654% this year. We ranked every S&P 500 stock by year-to-date return — here are the top 10.
DATA AS OF SEPTEMBER 18, 2026Most years, a 30% gain puts a stock near the top of the S&P 500. Not in 2026. This year's leaderboard is dominated by one unmistakable theme — memory and data storage — with chipmakers and refiners rounding out a top 10 where even the 10th-place stock has more than doubled. Counting down from #10:
Latest close: $413.28
Valero is one of North America's largest independent petroleum refiners. Energy has been the quiet outperformer of 2026, and Valero's refining margins put it in double-or-better territory — good enough for 10th place in a year this hot.
See Valero's full YTD stats →Latest close: $559.82
AMD makes the processors and AI accelerators competing for data-center budgets worldwide. In a year when silicon is king, a 161% gain only gets you ninth place — which tells you everything about 2026.
See AMD's full YTD stats →Latest close: $424.89
The largest refiner in the U.S. by capacity, Marathon Petroleum has ridden strong crack spreads all year. Two refiners in the top 10 makes energy 2026's most underrated sector story.
See Marathon's full YTD stats →All 500 S&P 500 stocks, ranked by YTD return and updated every morning.
See the full leaderboardLatest close: $244.25
Marvell builds the networking and custom silicon that moves data inside AI data centers. As data-center buildouts accelerated, so did Marvell — nearly tripling investors' money since New Year's.
See Marvell's full YTD stats →Latest close: $108.60
The year's biggest turnaround story. After years in the wilderness, Intel has nearly tripled in 2026 — a reminder that in the stock market, yesterday's laggard can become tomorrow's leader frighteningly fast.
See Intel's full YTD stats →Latest close: $858.79
Seagate makes hard disk drives — the unglamorous workhorses storing the world's exploding data volumes. AI doesn't just need chips; it needs somewhere to put everything. Investors figured that out, to the tune of +213%.
See Seagate's full YTD stats →Latest close: $1,015.80
Micron produces DRAM and NAND memory — the chips inside everything from phones to AI servers. Memory pricing has been on a tear, and Micron's stock has more than tripled, crossing $1,000 a share along the way.
See Micron's full YTD stats →Latest close: $568.06
Dell sells the AI servers that data centers can't buy fast enough. What looked like a boring PC company is now one of the purest plays on the AI infrastructure boom — up 355% and the bronze medalist of 2026.
See Dell's full YTD stats →Latest close: $154.04
The lone non-tech, non-energy name in the top 10. The mRNA biotech has quintupled investors' money in 2026 — proof that this year's rally, while narrow at the top, isn't a one-sector story.
See Moderna's full YTD stats →Latest close: $1,791.82
The runaway winner of 2026. Sandisk makes flash memory — the storage inside phones, laptops, and AI data centers — and its stock has gained 654% since December 31, 2025. A $10,000 investment on New Year's Eve would be worth over $75,000 today. No other S&P 500 stock is even close.
See Sandisk's full YTD stats →The complete S&P 500 YTD leaderboard — all 500 stocks, updated every morning.
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YTD return is measured from the December 31, 2025 closing price (U.S. markets were closed January 1, 2026) to the latest close, using split- and dividend-adjusted prices. The ranking covers every S&P 500 constituent. Figures above reflect data as of September 18, 2026; the live leaderboard updates daily and these positions may have shifted.