Reddit Meme Investors Pick Their Favorite Stocks – List of 10 Stocks Returned 76% Last Year

A social media platform Redditin r/wallstreetbets is best known for pumping up meme stocks, but the column managed to crowdsource a list of 10 top performing stocks for 2025.

Wallstreetbets’ 2025 list produced 76 percent, while for example the S&P 500 produced about 16 percent and the Nasdaq 100 about 21 percent.

The companies selected for this year’s list are, like last year’s list, very technology-focused, and in many companies the share prices have risen by more than 100 percent in the last 12 months. Eight of the companies are from the United States, one from Australia and one from the Netherlands.

The stocks were selected in an open chain, where each user could suggest one stock that they expect to rise in 2026. From around 2,200 responses, the ten most popular were selected.

Three mag7 companies and artificial intelligence in many parts of the production chain

Reddit chose three of the so-called mag7 group of the world’s largest companies for its list. At the end of the year, the artificial intelligence market has been rehabilitated Alphabetundergoing change negotiations for nearly 30,000 jobs Amazon and the one driving up his robot taxi service Tesla.

Shares of large companies are unlikely to multiply during the year, but they bring balance to riskier stock selections.

Artificial intelligence is listed in 10 stocks in many parts of the production chain. Data centers are operated in addition to large companies Nebius Group, supply much requested memory to them Micron Technologies and the energy problem of data centers solves Iris Energy. In data centers, huge amounts of training material for artificial intelligence language models are taken from Reddit and the data produced by the language models are utilized Palantir for example for intelligence and profiling purposes.

Satellite companies alongside techno companies

In addition to artificial intelligence, r/wallstreetbets’ favorite list includes two lesser-known companies focused on space and satellites.

Rocket Lab has, through aggressive acquisitions, become a competitor to, for example, the world’s largest stock exchange listing this year with a market value of approximately USD 1,000 billion SpaceX:lle. The company operates in all phases of the manufacture and launch of satellites and rockets.

The company has focused more on satellites in its production, but has shaped its business into a more comprehensive space company.

The second satellite company on the list is American AST Spacemobilewhich manufactures satellites that provide internet connections for internet operators. This sets the company apart, for example Elon Musk’s from leading From Starlinkwhich provides connections directly to customers.

AST Spacemobile has contracts for satellite connections, among other things AT&T:n, Verizon and Vodafone with.