best performing s and p 500 stocks by year 2026

Sandisk (SNDK) has had the best year this year by a US stock in the S&P 500 (GSPC) this year, returning 627.6%.

ASSETYEAR% RETURN
Sandisk (SNDK)
2026
627.56%
Moderna (MRNA)
2026
566.71%
Dell Technologies (DELL)
2026
342.4%
Micron Technology (MU)
2026
266.92%
Seagate Technology (STX)
2026
226.21%
Intel (INTC)
2026
225.66%
Bloom Energy (BE)
2026
218.76%
Marvell Technology (MRVL)
2026
202.42%
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
2026
188.09%
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
2026
162.32%
Western Digital (WDC)
2026
158.07%
Lumentum (LITE)
2026
148.21%
Marathon Petroleum (MPC)
2026
144.45%
Valero Energy (VLO)
2026
140.68%
Fortinet (FTNT)
2026
116.91%
Crowdstrike (CRWD)
2026
112.77%
Illumina (ILMN)
2026
105.59%
Palo Alto Networks (PANW)
2026
102.77%
Phillips 66 (PSX)
2026
102.41%
Teradyne (TER)
2026
100.14%
Datadog (DDOG)
2026
95.36%
NetApp (NTAP)
2026
88.38%
Flex (FLEX)
2026
86.65%
Applied Materials (AMAT)
2026
82.24%
APA (APA)
2026
77.95%