best performing sandp 500 stocks in the 2026

Moderna (MRNA) has had the highest return this year by a US stock in the S&P 500 (GSPC), returning 616.5%.

ASSETYEAR% RETURN
Moderna (MRNA)
2026
616.53%
Sandisk (SNDK)
2026
508.69%
Dell Technologies (DELL)
2026
353.3%
Micron Technology (MU)
2026
235.31%
Marvell Technology (MRVL)
2026
207.02%
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
2026
193.12%
Bloom Energy (BE)
2026
189.59%
Marathon Petroleum (MPC)
2026
185.01%
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
2026
171.47%
Valero Energy (VLO)
2026
171.03%
Intel (INTC)
2026
168.33%
Seagate Technology (STX)
2026
168.01%
Lumentum (LITE)
2026
162.38%
Fortinet (FTNT)
2026
141.27%
NetApp (NTAP)
2026
124.5%
Phillips 66 (PSX)
2026
122.76%
Crowdstrike (CRWD)
2026
121.95%
Western Digital (WDC)
2026
118.59%
Palo Alto Networks (PANW)
2026
118.51%
Illumina (ILMN)
2026
110.67%
Datadog (DDOG)
2026
109.32%
APA (APA)
2026
95.02%
Teradyne (TER)
2026
92.84%
Flex (FLEX)
2026
90.82%
Applied Materials (AMAT)
2026
86.95%