best performing sandp 500 stocks may 2026

Datadog (DDOG) has had the highest return this month by a US stock in the S&P 500 (GSPC), returning 50.2%.

ASSETMONTH% RETURN
Datadog (DDOG)
May 2026
50.17%
Akamai Technologies (AKAM)
May 2026
46.02%
Fortinet (FTNT)
May 2026
42.57%
Micron Technology (MU)
May 2026
41.6%
Palo Alto Networks (PANW)
May 2026
33.42%
Sandisk (SNDK)
May 2026
32.92%
Crowdstrike (CRWD)
May 2026
30.66%
DaVita HealthCare Partners (DVA)
May 2026
28.97%
Cisco Systems (CSCO)
May 2026
28.84%
Humana (HUM)
May 2026
28.33%
Coherent (COHR)
May 2026
20.64%
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
May 2026
20.53%
Seagate Technology (STX)
May 2026
19.26%
Genesis Healthcare (GEN)
May 2026
18.98%
Western Digital (WDC)
May 2026
18.66%
Corning (GLW)
May 2026
18.39%
Intel (INTC)
May 2026
16.71%
First Solar (FSLR)
May 2026
16.64%
Dell Technologies (DELL)
May 2026
16.05%
Oracle (ORCL)
May 2026
15.94%
CVS Health (CVS)
May 2026
14.91%
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
May 2026
14.65%
Philip Morris International (PM)
May 2026
14.24%
Zebra Technologies (ZBRA)
May 2026
13.33%
eBay (EBAY)
May 2026
12.75%