The S&P 500 was up 16.4% for 2025, following a 23.3% gain in 2024. – Getty Images
Updated with year-end prices.
Following another excellent year for the broad U.S. stock market, it is time to show a list of the best performers in the S&P 500, but also to put the market’s gains into some perspective.
All price changes in this article exclude dividends.
The S&P 500 SPX was up 16.4% for 2025 through Tuesday’s close, following gains of 23.3% in 2024 and 24.2% in 2023. In 2022, the index declined 19.4%, according to data provided by LSEG. So the four-year price change from the end of 2021 through 2025 43.6%. That made for a compound annual growth rate of 9.5% for the S&P 500 for the four-year period.
Here is how the 11 sectors of the S&P 500 performed During 2025:
For the second consecutive year, the S&P 500 Communications sector has been the best performer among the 11 sectors of the large-cap U.S. benchmark index. – LSEG
Here are the 20 stocks in the S&P 500 that showed the largest gains for 2025. The list is limited to stocks that have traded for the entire year.
Company
2025 price change
2024 price change
Western Digital Corp. WDC
282.3%
13.9%
Micron Technology Inc. MU
239.1%
-1.4%
Seagate Technology Holdings PLC STX
219.1%
1.1%
Robinhood Markets Inc. HOOD
203.5%
192.5%
Warner Bros Discovery Inc. WBD
172.7%
-7.1%
Newmont Corp. NEM
168.3%
-10.1%
Lam Research Corp. LRCX
137.0%
-7.8%
Palantir Technologies Inc. PLTR
135.0%
340.5%
Comfort Systems USA Inc. FIX
120.1%
106.2%
AppLovin Corp. APP
108.1%
712.6%
Carvana Co. CVNA
107.5%
284.1%
GE Vernova Inc. GEV
98.7%
N/A
Tapestry Inc. TPR
95.6%
77.5%
Amphenol Corp. APH
94.6%
40.1%
KLA Corp. KLAC
92.8%
8.4%
Howmet Aerospace Inc. HWM
87.5%
102.1%
General Electric Co. GE
84.7%
63.9%
Corning Inc. GLW
84.3%
56.1%
Intel Corp. INTC
84.0%
-60.1%
Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. HII
80.0%
-27.2%
Source: LSEG
Two of the three current companies springing from the “old” General Electric made the list. GE is still, technically, General Electric GE, “operating as GE Aerospace.” The company completed the separation of GE Vernova GEV in April 2024, after having completed the separation of GE HealthCare Technologies GEHC in January 2023. Shares of GE HealthCare Technologies were up 4.9% for 2025.
Intel INTC is on the list with an 84% gain for 2025 following a 27% decline in 2024. The latest of a slew of investments in the company during 2025 was Nvidia Corp.’s NVDA $5 billion purchase of Intel shares on Dec. 26.
