These 5 S&P 500 Stocks Are Up by More than 200% in 2025

• There's presently a shortage of representation and retention products.

• One discount brokerage has surged acknowledgment to a emergence successful retail investing and crypto trading.

• 10 stocks we similar amended than Sandisk ›

The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) is connected people for a coagulated 2025. With conscionable a mates of trading days near successful the year, the scale is up astir 17%. That's not atrocious considering the mean yearly full instrumentality for the S&P 500 (including dividends) is astir 10%.

But 5 components successful the large-cap scale person blown that mean away, posting gains of much than 200%.

The apical S&P 500 performer for 2025 is Sandisk (NASDAQ: SNDK). The banal is up a whopping 587% since it went nationalist successful February astatine $38.50 a share. It presently trades astatine astir $232.

Headquartered successful Milpitas, California, successful the bosom of Silicon Valley, Sandisk makes information retention devices based connected NAND flash technology, which is simply a benignant of nonvolatile retention exertion that tin clasp information without a powerfulness source. "NAND" combines the words "not" and "and," referring to the logic gates that are cardinal to the devices. And there's presently a shortage of specified devices.

No. 2 connected our database is Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC). It's up 283% for the year. Based successful San Jose, California, it besides makes information retention products, but it's focused connected hard drives alternatively than flash memory. Interestingly, Western Digital and Sandisk utilized to beryllium 1 company, but Western Digital spun disconnected Sandisk aboriginal this year.

Next up: Seagate Technology Holdings (NASDAQ: STX), which is up 226% truthful acold successful 2025. The Fremont, California, institution besides makes information retention products. (Are you sensing a inclination here?) These see idiosyncratic retention devices, gaming hard drives, web storage, and akin products.

Fourth connected the database is Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD), which is up astir 225% arsenic of this writing. Based retired of Menlo Park, California, Robinhood operates an online discount brokerage level that offers retail investors commission-free trading of stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies.

The institution makes wealth via thing called "payment for bid flow," wherein marketplace makers wage Robinhood for routing lawsuit orders to them. Other income comes from investing users' currency deposits. The institution has been benefiting from a surge successful retail investing and crypto trading.

Finally, past connected the S&P 500's apical 5 database this twelvemonth is Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU), up 222% twelvemonth to date. Based successful Boise, Idaho, it besides makes representation and retention solutions – specifically, the high-performance representation (DRAM) and retention devices (NAND) utilized successful information centers and different computing devices. Like 3 different stocks successful the apical five, Micron is besides benefiting from a rising question of request tied to artificial quality (AI) workloads.