Ten stocks soared higher on Tuesday, bucking a mixed performance on Wall Street, as investors took heart from positive developments surrounding the artificial intelligence sector, while markets prepare ahead of the Federal Reserve’s first interest rates decision for the year.
Of the three major indices, only the Dow Jones finished in the red, down 0.83 percent. The S&P 500 jumped by 0.41 percent, while the Nasdaq climbed by 0.91 percent.
In this article, we spotlight the 10 top-performing stocks on Tuesday and detail the reasons behind their gains.
To come up with the list, we focused exclusively on stocks with a $2 billion market capitalization and 5 million shares in trading volume.
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10. CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV)
CoreWeave extended its winning streak to a third consecutive day on Tuesday, jumping 10.73 percent to close at $108.86 apiece after earning a billion-dollar backing from Nvidia Corp.
In a statement, Nvidia announced the acquisition of $2 billion common shares in CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) at a price of $87.20 apiece, reflecting its confidence in the latter’s business, team, and growth strategy as a cloud platform built on Nvidia infrastructure.
The total investment would help support CoreWeave Inc.’s (NASDAQ:CRWV) plan to accelerate the development of more than 5 gigawatts of AI factories by 2030 in a bid to advance global adoption of the sector.
Investment aside, the two companies also joined forces to build more AI factories developed and operated by Nvidia’s accelerated computing platform technology.
They also intend to leverage the semiconductor giant’s financial strength to accelerate CoreWeave Inc.’s (NASDAQ:CRWV) acquisition of land, power, and shell to build more sites.
They would also deploy multiple generations of Nvidia infrastructure such as the Rubin platform, Vera CPUs and BlueField storage systems, among others.
“From the very beginning, our collaboration has been guided by a simple conviction: AI succeeds when software, infrastructure and operations are designed together,” said CoreWeave Chairman and CEO Michael Intrator.
“NVIDIA is the leading and most requested computing platform at every phase of AI—from pre-training to post-training—and Blackwell provides the lowest cost architecture for inference. This expanded collaboration underscores the strength of demand we are seeing across our customer base and the broader market signals as AI systems move into large-scale production,” he noted.
9. Sysco Corp. (NYSE:SYS)
Sysco snapped a three-day losing streak on Tuesday, slashing 10.96 percent to finish at $83.92 apiece as investors took heart from a more optimistic outlook for the full fiscal period of 2026.
In an updated report, Sysco Corp. (NYSE:SYS) said that it now expects to hit the high end of its earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $4.50 to $4.60 for the full fiscal year 2026, primarily encouraged by strong sales in the second quarter.
During the period, sales picked up by 3 percent to $20.76 billion from $20.15 billion in the same period last year, bringing its six-month sales higher by 3 percent to $41.9 billion from $40.6 billion year-on-year.
Net income, on the other hand, dipped by 2 percent to $389 million in the second quarter from $406 million in the same comparable period. Net earnings in the six-month period also decreased by 3.3 percent to $866 million from $896 million year-on-year.
“Sysco delivered strong results in the second quarter of fiscal year 2026. Our performance was driven by increased local case growth, and gross margin expansion. We delivered our third consecutive quarter of sequentially improving local case growth,” said Sysco Corp. (NYSE:SYS) CEO Kevin Hourican.
“Second quarter results reflected high-quality performance across the income statement and cash flow. These results highlight our operational execution on Sysco specific initiatives. Looking ahead, our underlying momentum and continued focus on Sysco specific initiatives support our confidence in raising our full year adjusted EPS guidance to the high-end of the prior range,” he added.
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