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Best Performing Stocks 2026: How Our Top 10 Averaged +449% in One Year
- GrowthTech.ai
- Jun 9
- 8 min read
The best performing stocks 2026 had to offer? Our BullsEye Top 10 averaged +449.35% over one year — verified results, real catalysts, full breakdown inside.
If you've been searching for the best performing stocks 2026 has delivered so far, the numbers below speak for themselves. One year ago, on June 6, 2025, our BullsEye Market Intelligence System surfaced ten stocks in its Top 10 ranking. Today, June 5, 2026, that portfolio shows an average return of +449.35% — and a hypothetical $10,000 split evenly across all ten positions would be worth $54,934.50.
No cherry-picking. No hindsight. These were the exact ten names our ranking system surfaced, in the exact order it ranked them, tracked over a full 365 days. Below, we break down each stock and the real-world catalysts behind every move — the wins, and yes, the two that finished in the red.
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The Scoreboard: One Year, Ten Stocks, +449.35% Average
Tracking period: June 6, 2025 – June 5, 2026
BullsEye Rank | Stock | Price 6/6/2025 | Price 6/5/2026 | 1-Year Return |
1 | American Superconductor (AMSC) | $31.87 | $42.34 | +32.85% |
2 | Sandisk (SNDK) | $40.27 | $1,559.32 | +3,772.16% |
3 | IES Holdings (IESC) | $283.72 | $720.72 | +154.03% |
4 | Carvana (CVNA)* | $67.38 | $66.51 | −1.29% |
5 | Rocket Lab (RKLB) | $30.00 | $110.08 | +266.93% |
6 | SkyWest (SKYW) | $103.67 | $84.45 | −18.54% |
7 | Twilio (TWLO) | $121.65 | $225.99 | +85.77% |
8 | Kratos Defense (KTOS) | $40.93 | $58.52 | +42.98% |
9 | Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) | $206.40 | $415.17 | +101.15% |
10 | Broadcom (AVGO) | $245.05 | $385.73 | +57.41% |
*Carvana prices reflect the company's 5-for-1 forward stock split approved in March 2026.
Even excluding our top performer Sandisk (+3,772%), the remaining nine picks averaged +80.14% — strength across the board, not a one-stock story.
Now let's look at what actually drove these returns, stock by stock, in original BullsEye ranking order.
1. American Superconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: AMSC) — +32.85%
AMSC's grid resiliency and power systems business delivered the kind of steady operational progress that compounds. Revenues for fiscal 2025 reached $299.2 million, up from $222.8 million the prior year, driven by higher Grid and Wind revenues plus the contribution from its acquisition of Comtrafo, a leading Brazilian transformer manufacturer acquired in December 2025 in a deal valued around $162 million. By its fiscal third quarter, AMSC was posting revenue of $74.5 million (up over 20% year-over-year), its sixth consecutive quarter of profitability, and a 12-month backlog exceeding $250 million. Clear Street named AMSC its top 2026 idea in Energy Transition, citing its growing niche in power capacity augmentation.
2. Sandisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) — +3,772.16%
The single largest gain the BullsEye system has surfaced to date. Sandisk — spun off as an independent NAND flash storage company — rode the AI memory boom from roughly $40 to over $1,550 in twelve months. The fundamentals backed the move: Sandisk's March 2026 quarter delivered revenue of $5.95 billion, up 250% year-over-year, with NAND pricing up more than 200% annually and non-GAAP gross margin expanding to 78.4% as AI datacenter demand for enterprise SSDs overwhelmed supply. Wall Street kept chasing the move higher — Morgan Stanley raised its price target to $1,750, while Susquehanna went as high as $3,250. A historic repricing of the entire memory sector, and Sandisk sat at the center of it.
3. IES Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: IESC) — +154.03%
A repeat star for the BullsEye system. IES Holdings, the Houston-based electrical and infrastructure contractor, became a pure-play beneficiary of the data center construction supercycle. Its fiscal Q2 2026 results (reported May 1, 2026) showed revenue up 17% to $974 million, net income up 56% to $109.9 million, and diluted EPS of $5.44 — but the showstopper was backlog: a record $3.9 billion, up 62% since the end of fiscal 2025. Communications segment revenue (heavily data-center driven) grew 35%, Infrastructure Solutions grew 64%, and the completed acquisition of Gulf Island Fabrication added steel fabrication capacity for industrial and energy customers. The stock jumped 12.6% on the earnings release alone.
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4. Carvana Co. (NYSE: CVNA) — −1.29%
The flat result that proves we publish everything. Operationally, Carvana had a phenomenal year: record Q1 2026 results with 187,393 retail units sold (up 40%), revenue of $6.43 billion (up 52%), net income of $405 million, and its sixth consecutive quarter of 40%+ year-over-year unit growth — plus a 5-for-1 stock split approved in March 2026. But the share price had already sprinted ahead of those fundamentals, and valuation concerns plus questions around subprime auto loan exposure kept the stock roughly flat across our split-adjusted tracking window. A reminder that great companies and great twelve-month stock returns don't always line up.
5. Rocket Lab Corporation (NASDAQ: RKLB) — +266.93%
Rocket Lab nearly quadrupled as it cemented its position as the most credible challenger in commercial launch. Fiscal 2025 was record-breaking: revenue of $602 million (up 38%), 21 Electron missions flown with a 100% success rate, and the company's largest contract ever — an $816 million award from the Space Development Agency to build 18 satellites for the Tracking Layer Tranche 3 program. Q1 2026 kept the momentum going with record quarterly revenue above $200 million and a $2.2 billion backlog, while the medium-lift Neutron rocket advanced through final qualification milestones toward its debut launch. Investors are pricing in Neutron's entry into a market currently dominated by SpaceX's Falcon 9.
6. SkyWest, Inc. (NASDAQ: SKYW) — −18.54%
The portfolio's biggest decliner — and the fundamentals make it a genuinely interesting case. SkyWest, America's largest regional airline operator, actually grew full-year 2025 net income 33% to $428 million ($10.35 per diluted share) and locked in multi-year E175 contract extensions with both United (40 aircraft) and Delta (13 aircraft) in January 2026. But the FAA's mandated flight cancellations during the October–November 2025 government shutdown clipped Q4 earnings, capital spending nearly tripled in Q1 2026 as fleet reinvestment ramped, and airline sector sentiment soured broadly. The market de-rated the stock despite record profits — sometimes price and performance disconnect, and we report it either way.
7. Twilio Inc. (NYSE: TWLO) — +85.77%
Twilio transformed from forgotten SaaS laggard into one of 2026's defining AI re-rating stories. Q1 2026 revenue rose 20% year-over-year to $1.41 billion — its strongest growth in over three years — with record gross profit of $697.5 million and net income up roughly 350%. Management raised full-year revenue growth guidance to ~14.5% at the midpoint, the VoiceAI business posted its sixth consecutive quarter of acceleration, and the company's SIGNAL conference unveiled a new AI customer engagement platform (Conversation Memory, Orchestrator, Agent Connect) that sent Wall Street price targets into the $200–$250 range. Gartner again named Twilio a Leader in CPaaS for 2026, ranking it highest in ability to execute.
8. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (NASDAQ: KTOS) — +42.98%
Kratos rode surging global defense spending and the drone warfare era. Full-year 2025 revenue hit $1.347 billion, reflecting 16.6% organic growth, and Q1 2026 accelerated further: revenue of $371 million (up 22.6%), a consolidated book-to-bill ratio of 1.6-to-1, and trailing twelve-month bookings of $1.715 billion. The Unmanned Systems segment — Kratos's jet-powered target and combat drones — grew 30.9% organically, while Defense Rocket Systems grew 45.8%. The company also closed two acquisitions (Nomad and Israel-based Orbit Technologies) and raised $1 billion in a February equity offering priced at $84 per share to fund its expansion, guiding fiscal 2026 revenue to $1.70–$1.76 billion.
9. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM) — +101.15%
The world's most important chipmaker doubled. TSMC's Q1 2026 results were staggering: revenue of $35.9 billion, up 40.6% year-over-year, with net profit surging 58% to a record — its eighth-plus consecutive quarter of record-setting growth. High-performance computing (AI and 5G) climbed to 61% of revenue, advanced nodes made up 74% of wafer revenue, and management raised full-year 2026 guidance to more than 30% revenue growth while pushing capital spending toward the top of its $52–56 billion range. As the sole manufacturer capable of producing leading-edge chips for Nvidia, Apple, and AMD at scale, TSMC remains the tollbooth on the entire AI buildout — analysts describe its capacity as effectively sold out.
10. Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) — +57.41%
Broadcom appears in our Top 10 rankings year after year, and it delivered again. Q1 fiscal 2026 revenue hit a record $19.3 billion (up 29%) with AI semiconductor revenue of $8.4 billion growing 106% year-over-year. Then, on June 3, 2026, Broadcom reported a record Q2: revenue of $22.2 billion (up 48%), AI semiconductor revenue of $10.8 billion (up 143%), a record 67% operating margin, and Q3 guidance of approximately $29.4 billion — an 84% year-over-year increase. CEO Hock Tan called AI demand "simply insatiable," guiding full-year AI semiconductor revenue to roughly $56 billion (up ~180%) with fiscal 2027 expected to exceed $100 billion, backed by custom accelerator agreements with the largest names in AI. A post-earnings pullback over a software segment wobble barely dents a +57% year.
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The Bottom Line
The best performing stocks 2026 produced — Sandisk's historic +3,772% run, Rocket Lab's +267% surge, TSMC's clean double — were all sitting in a single BullsEye Top 10 ranking published twelve months ago. The average across all ten: +449.35%. Even with two decliners and the top performer excluded, the remaining names averaged +80.14%.
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Sources
AMSC Q4/FY2025 results — SEC Form 8-K, May 2026; Comtrafo acquisition announcement, December 2025 (stocktitan.net)
Sandisk March-quarter 2026 results — Morningstar; price target coverage — Barchart/Insider Monkey (Morgan Stanley, Susquehanna), June 2026
IES Holdings fiscal Q2 2026 results — GlobeNewswire / SEC Form 8-K, May 1, 2026
Carvana Q1 2026 results and 5-for-1 split — Business Wire / StockTitan, April 29, 2026
Rocket Lab FY2025 and Q1 2026 results — Rocket Lab Investor Relations, February & May 2026
SkyWest Q4/FY2025 and Q1 2026 results — SEC Form 8-K, January & April 2026
Twilio Q1 2026 results and SIGNAL conference coverage — Simply Wall St / Blockonomi, April–June 2026
Kratos Q4/FY2025 and Q1 2026 results — SEC Form 8-K, February & May 2026
TSMC Q1 2026 results — CNBC / Bloomberg, April 16, 2026
Broadcom Q1 and Q2 fiscal 2026 results — Broadcom Investor Relations / SEC Form 8-K, March 4 & June 3, 2026
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