10 Hot Stocks Investors Are Buying, 5 Break Fresh Records

Ten stocks stood firmer on Tuesday, defying an overall market decline, as investors repositioned portfolios ahead of the Federal Reserve’s rate cut decision on Wednesday.

On Wall Street, all three main indices finished in the red. The Dow Jones slipped by 0.27 percent, the S&P 500 decreased by 0.13 percent, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq dipped by 0.07 percent.

In contrast, the 10 stocks were buoyed by industry-specific developments, which we broke down below. Five of them hit new all-time highs.

To come up with the list, we considered only the stocks with at least $2 billion in market capitalization and 5 million shares in trading volume.

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10. Ferguson Enterprises Inc. (NYSE:FERG)

Ferguson shares bounced back by 7.93 percent on Tuesday to close at $231.54 apiece after reporting growth in earnings performance in the 2025 fiscal period.

In an updated report, Ferguson Enterprises Inc. (NYSE:FERG) grew its net income for the fourth quarter of the year by 55 percent to $700 million from $451 million in the same period last year. Net sales increased by 6.9 percent to $8.5 billion from $7.9 billion year-on-year.

For the full fiscal period, the company recorded a net profit of $1.856 billion, or an increase of 6.9 percent from $1.735 billion year-on-year. Net sales rose by inched up by 3.8 percent to $30.76 billion from $29.6 billion.

According to Ferguson Enterprises Inc. (NYSE:FERG), it is set to transition into a calendar year beginning January 1, 2026, to cover dates from January 1 to December 31 of every year.

The company will still release earnings for the three months covering August 1 to October 31, 2025, on December 9. Thereafter, it will begin reporting the full-year earnings for the calendar year of 2025 in late February 2026.

For the full calendar year basis, Ferguson Enterprises Inc. (NYSE:FERG) said it expects to book mid-single digit growth in net sales from the $29.8 billion actual net sales in the calendar period of 2024.

9. MARA Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:MARA)

Shares of MARA Holdings grew by 7.94 percent on Tuesday to finish at $17.53 apiece as investors loaded portfolios ahead of expected developments from a Bitcoin roundtable discussion.

Hosted by Sen. Cynthia Lummis and Rep. Nick Begich, and was attended by MARA Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:MARA) CEO Fred Thiel, alongside key executives from the crypto industry such as Strategy Inc. Chairman Michael Saylor and BitMine Chairman Tom Lee, among others, the roundtable aims to come up with a strategy on how the US could work on acquiring 1 million Bitcoins for its reserves over the next five years.

Lummis introduced the Boosting Innovation, Technology, and Competitiveness through Optimized Investment Nationwide Act (Bitcoin Act) in March, which builds on President Donald Trump’s executive order to establish national crypto holdings.

As of writing, the price of Bitcoin was up by 1.27 percent at $116,886.20 apiece.

Earlier this month, MARA Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:MARA) said that it was able to produce 705 Bitcoins last month, higher by 2 units from 703 in July. It also operated at a hash rate of 59.4 EH/s versus the 58.9 EH/s previously.