The stock market tends to like growth, so investing in hypergrowth stocks can be a good idea — if you pick the right ones. Let’s take a look at the stocks of five companies that are growing their earnings by 40% or more to consider buying in 2026.
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Given its size, that still boggles the mind Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) it’s a hypergrowth stock, but that’s exactly what it is. The semiconductor company saw its revenue rise 73% last quarter to $68.1 billion. Meanwhile, it predicts its revenue growth will rise to 77% in Q1.
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure continues to advance and the company’s graphics processing units (GPUs) are the main chips that power AI workloads, the company still has a lot of growth ahead of it. Meanwhile, the combination of its CUDA software platform and NVLink connectivity system provides a wide channel.
As the demand for GPUs and other chips increases, so does the demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM), which is integrated with these chips to improve their performance. Meanwhile, since HBM requires three times the wafer capacity of traditional DRAM (random access memory), prices for HBM and DRAM often rise due to material shortages.
This leads to overclocking of the memory processor Micron technology (NASDAQ: MU)which last quarter revenue increased by 57%. More importantly, its margins grew from 38.4% to 56%, resulting in increased profit and cash flow. With the company expecting HBM demand to grow at an annual growth rate of 40% over the next few years and DRAM prices likely to remain high, the company has a long growth path ahead.
With revenue growth accelerating for 10 straight quarters and reaching 70% in Q4, Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) it is in hypergrowth mode. Meanwhile, the frugal company is reporting more than 60% revenue growth this year.
The company is one of the US government’s most important defense contractors, while at the same time, its AI platform (AIP) has become the must-have AI application in the commercial space. With AIP giving customers the ability to use AI to solve dozens of real-world problems across industries, Palantir has a very long growth path ahead of it.
With revenue growth of 66% in Q4, AppLovin (NASDAQ: APP) it stays in hypergrowth mode. Meanwhile, the company has been growing its net worth and reducing its operating expenses at the same time, resulting in strong profit growth and strong free cash flow generation. Meanwhile, its revenue growth is expected to remain strong, with the company guiding for Q1 revenue growth of more than 50%.
The company’s Axon 2 platform has become an adtech tool in the online gaming market, while looking to expand into other verticals, including e-commerce. Given the opportunities ahead of it, the company appears to have plenty of growth left in the tank.
While quantum computing is far from becoming mainstream, IonQ (NYSE: IONQ)however, it has been overgrowing. The company recently saw revenue jump 429% in Q4 to $61.9 million.
IonQ is at the forefront of quantum computing, with its confinement technology proving to be one of the most accurate to date, achieving a two-qubit gate reliability of 99.99%. During that time, the company has been making aggressive purchases to help develop and scale its technology, while also expanding into other areas of the quantum ecosystem. Its pending discovery of the quantum foundry SkyWatermeanwhile, it will make it directly integrated, which will allow it to better integrate its designs with the manufacturing process and also help scale.
While IonQ remains a speculative stock in an emerging industry, it is poised to become a potential leader in the next big technology after AI.
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Geoffrey Seiler has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends IonQ, Micron Technology, Nvidia, Palantir Technologies, and SkyWater Technology. The Motley Fool has a policy of disclosure.
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