In this article, we take a look at the 10 Best American AI Stocks to Buy Now.

On Monday, Anthropic announced a partnership with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs to establish an AI services firm that will work with companies to rapidly integrate Claude into their core operations.

The new firm is a standalone entity with Anthropic engineering and partnership resources embedded directly within its team. Additionally, the new company is backed by a consortium of leading alternative asset managers, including General Atlantic, Leonard Green, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital.

Anthropic Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao said enterprise demand for Claude is significantly outpacing any single delivery model. He added:

“Our partnerships with the world’s leading systems integrators are central to how Claude reaches large enterprises. This new firm brings additional operating capability to the ecosystem and capital from leading alternative asset managers. We are proud to build it alongside Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, and our other partners.”

Blackstone noted that the new firm will help leading businesses deploy AI at the speed and scale that their competitive positions require. The company will serve as an accelerator in bringing AI solutions to mid-size companies, helping drive adoption among an initial customer base of both investment firms’ portfolio companies and independent companies that can benefit from the platform.

As we consider the potential of more businesses to adopt AI in their processes driven by this development, let’s take a look at the 10 Best American AI Stocks to Buy Now.

Our Methodology

To compile our list of the best American AI stocks to buy now, we relied on financial media, ETFs, and screeners to identify AI stocks with significant upside potential. We considered not only pure-play AI stocks but also companies that leverage AI to enhance their businesses. From this pool, we selected the 10 stocks most widely owned by hedge funds, based on Q4 2025 filings from Insider Monkey’s database. These names were then ranked by the number of hedge funds holding positions in them.

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Note: All pricing data is as of market close on May 5, 2026.

10. CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD)

Potential Upside: 4.93%

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 67

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) is one of the best American AI stocks to buy now. On Tuesday, CrowdStrike closed 1.55% higher at $476.53 as the company announced the expansion of its Project QuiltWorks, the cybersecurity coalition for securing frontier AI Risk.

In a statement, CrowdStrike announced the addition of more partners to the coalition, particularly Armadin, Cognizant, HCLTech, Infosys, KPMG, NTT DATA, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and Wipro Limited. Project Quiltworks, which is powered by frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic, combines CrowdStrike’s AI-driven vulnerability discovery and adversary-informed prioritization with remediation services from Accenture, EY, IBM Cybersecurity Services, and Kroll.

CrowdStrike said it is advancing the project with the latest frontier AI capabilities from Anthropic as it integrates Opus 4.7 across the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, while extending its advanced vulnerability discovery capabilities to the broader market through QuiltWorks.

Additionally, CrowdStrike also announced Falcon OverWatch for Defender, which extends industry-leading managed threat hunting to Microsoft endpoint customers. According to CrowdStrike, the service strengthens security outcomes for Microsoft Defender with enhanced visibility, real-time detection and response, and continuous expert monitoring to identify and stop sophisticated threats that would otherwise go undetected.

On May 5, Wells Fargo analyst Michael Turrin maintained a Buy rating on CrowdStrike, with a price target of $525.00, according to a TipRanks report. Based on 56 analyst ratings compiled by CNN, 77% rated CrowdStrike Buy while 23% rated it Hold. The stock has a median price target of $500, a 4.93% upside from the current price of $476.53.

For its full fiscal year 2026, CrowdStrike reported a 22% rise in total revenue to $4.81 billion compared to $3.95 billion in fiscal 2025. Subscription revenue posted a 21% gain to $4.56 billion compared to $3.76 billion in the previous fiscal year.

The company also reported a 24% increase in annual recurring revenue (ARR) to $5.25 billion as of January 31, 2026, with $330.7 million in net new ARR added in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026.

Crowdstrike CFO Burt Podbere said the company delivered a record fourth quarter and fiscal year 2026, exceeding expectations across all guided metrics. He added:

“The combination of accelerating growth, expanding profitability, and record cash flow generation puts CrowdStrike in rare air. With exceptional momentum across the business and a record Q1 pipeline entering FY27, we have strong conviction to once again raise our FY27 ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) outlook. The AI revolution represents a new, generational growth opportunity for CrowdStrike, and we are confident in our ability to deliver durable, profitable growth as we scale to our goal of $20 billion ending ARR in FY36.”

For the first quarter of fiscal 2027, CrowdStrike set an ARR guidance of $5.5018 billion to $5.5038 billion and a guidance of $6.4658 to $6.5164 billion for the full year.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) is a global cybersecurity leader offering an advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity, and data.

9. Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR)

Potential Upside: 47.16%

Number of Hedge Fund Holders:89

Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) is one of the best American AI stocks to buy now. On May 7, Citi increased its price target on the stock to $225 from $210 and maintained a Buy rating, according to a report by TheFly.

Citi made the upward price target adjustment following the company’s first-quarter earnings report. It emphasized that AI demand is accelerating the company’s U.S. business.

Meanwhile, Rosenblatt also maintained its Buy rating on Palantir, increasing its price target to $225 from $200. Similarly, Bank of America Securities also reiterated a Buy rating on Palantir, setting a $255.00 price target. According to 32 analyst ratings compiled by CNN, Palantir has an average price target of $200, a 47.16% increase from the current price of $135.91.

On Monday, Palantir reported an 85% jump in total revenue for the first quarter to $1.633 billion, with U.S. revenue surging 104% to $1.282 billion. U.S. government revenue accounted for the bulk of the U.S. revenue at $687 million, an 84% rise from the same period last year. Similarly, U.S. commercial revenue also posted a 133% gain at $595 million.

As a result of the first quarter figures, the company is raising its revenue guidance for this year, projecting it to reach between $7.650 billion and $7.662 billion. For the second quarter of the year, Palantir expects revenue to range from $1.797 billion to $1.801 billion.

Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) is a software company that builds digital infrastructure for data-driven operations and decision-making. Its products serve as the connective tissue between an organization’s data, its analytics capabilities, and operational execution.