what is the best returning stock in sandp 500 this year

Sandisk (SNDK) has had the highest return this year by a US stock in the S&P 500 (GSPC), returning 631.6%.

ASSETYEAR% RETURN
Sandisk (SNDK)
2026
631.61%
Moderna (MRNA)
2026
533.39%
Dell Technologies (DELL)
2026
325.78%
Micron Technology (MU)
2026
272.05%
Seagate Technology (STX)
2026
236.44%
Intel (INTC)
2026
217.71%
Marvell Technology (MRVL)
2026
209.52%
Bloom Energy (BE)
2026
206.48%
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
2026
181.28%
Lumentum (LITE)
2026
175.66%
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
2026
169.16%
Western Digital (WDC)
2026
161.31%
Marathon Petroleum (MPC)
2026
160.99%
Valero Energy (VLO)
2026
153.91%
Crowdstrike (CRWD)
2026
124.55%
Fortinet (FTNT)
2026
123.48%
Palo Alto Networks (PANW)
2026
114.41%
Phillips 66 (PSX)
2026
109.12%
Teradyne (TER)
2026
108.88%
Illumina (ILMN)
2026
102.33%
Datadog (DDOG)
2026
101.43%
NetApp (NTAP)
2026
101.4%
Applied Materials (AMAT)
2026
98.89%
Lam Research (LRCX)
2026
91.8%
Flex (FLEX)
2026
83.56%