4 Tech Stocks With More Potential Than Any Cryptocurrency

One of the astir appealing narratives astir cryptocurrencies is their purported sky-high potential. Bitcoin has seen aggregate years successful which the coin gained much than 200%. Ethereum and XRP shareholders besides saw mammoth 12-month increases successful caller years.

But investing successful cryptocurrency besides means accepting monolithic volatility. The integer currencies often commercialized connected marketplace sentiment and speculation alternatively than being backed by tangible assets. And portion stocks person built-in safeguards, specified arsenic markets that halt trading erstwhile a banal moves excessively low, excessively quickly, determination are nary specified circuit breakers for cryptocurrencies. That means an capitalist could beryllium near holding the proverbial bag.

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That's wherefore I similar stocks to cryptocurrencies. With thousands of companies from which to choose, it's beauteous communal to find immoderate large tech stocks that person adjacent much imaginable than your favourite altcoin. Here are 4 S&P 500 members disconnected to a large commencement successful 2026.

Sandisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) is the best-performing banal successful the S&P 500 twelvemonth to date, with a instrumentality of astir 200%. Sandisk is simply a instrumentality subordinate successful the banal market, having been acquired by information retention institution Western Digital successful 2016 and past spun disconnected again arsenic its ain institution successful 2023.

The caller Sandisk sells flash products, solid-state drives (SSDs), representation cards, and USB drives. Much of its momentum is successful the information halfway extremity market, wherever its SSDs supply capableness for artificial quality (AI), instrumentality learning, and different high-capacity retention workloads. Management said information halfway gross successful the 2nd 4th of fiscal 2026 (ending Jan. 2) was up 64% connected a sequential basis.

Overall, gross successful the astir caller 4th was $3.02 billion, up 61% from a twelvemonth ago.

Lumentum Holdings (NASDAQ: LITE) presently holds the No. 2 presumption connected the database of champion year-to-date returns successful the S&P 500, with a summation of 118%. Lumentum makes optical components for fiber-optic networks that tin grip AI workloads successful some unreality and information halfway interconnect (DCI) environments. It besides makes concern lasers for sensing and precision manufacturing. It's continuing to grow; the institution conscionable announced plans to physique a 240,000-square-foot installation successful North Carolina to manufacture optical devices for AI information centers.

Earnings for Q2 of fiscal 2026 (ending Dec. 27, 2025) included gross of $665.5 million, up 65% from a twelvemonth ago. Management issued guidance for third-quarter gross to beryllium adjacent more, with a scope betwixt $780 cardinal and $830 million.