For the past five years, investors who have stayed entirely invested in the highest-growth stocks in the market (and some of the largest-capitalization stocks in their sectors, for that matter) have outperformed.
With favorable regulations encouraging a boom in domestic nuclear power, several prominent uranium miners have experienced skyrocketing shares in the last year. Canadian outfit Cameco Corp. NYSE: CCJ, among the largest producers of uranium in the world, has risen by 161% in the last year, for instance.
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Semiconductor stocks start out 2026 with powerful tailwinds in their corner after vastly outperforming in 2025, but these tailwinds have the potential to turn into headwinds. The semiconductor sector continues to do better than most, although lately gains are driven by fewer stocks with many more lagging behind. Artificial intelligence or AI continues to underpin the semiconductor sector, but there are increasingly undesirable developments to be found.