In this article, we will look at the 10 Hottest Mega-Cap Stocks of 2025.
On October 11, Dan Ives, managing director and global head of technology research at Wedbush Securities, appeared on Yahoo Finance to discuss what the third-quarter earnings season is going to look like for big tech companies. He believes that Wall Street is massively underestimating the potential of the current tech/AI cycle. Dan calls it the AI super cycle and believes that the third-quarter earnings season will be a validation moment not only for the chips but also for software.
Dan Ives has been bullish on the tech sector. He noted that the bears have continued to miss the market gains for the past two years and will continue to miss it as the current tech cycle has at least two more years ahead of it. While talking about analysts calling for diversification of portfolios out of the technology sector. Dan noted that he acknowledges the diversification technique; however, he disagrees about totally peeling away from AI. To elaborate on his perspective, Dan pointed towards the missed opportunity for people who might have sold AMD a month ago, Oracle six months ago, or NVIDIA a year ago. He emphasized that investors need to understand that we are currently in only the second innings of a nine-innings cycle. Therefore, the Q3 2025 earnings season is going to provide validation with respect to how the use cases of AI are exploding.
With that, let’s take a look at the 10 Hottest Mega-Cap Stocks of 2025.
Our Methodology
To come up with the list of 10 Hottest Mega-Cap Stocks of 2025, we used the Finviz Stock Screener, Yahoo Finance, WSJ, and Insider Monkey’s Q2 2025 database. Using the screener, we aggregated a list of Mega-Cap stocks (Market Cap of $200 billion or more) sorted by year-to-date performance. Next, we cross-checked the market capitalization from WSJ and year-to-date performance from Yahoo Finance, as of October 13, 2025. Lastly, we ranked the stocks in ascending order of the number of hedge fund holders sourced from Insider Monkey.
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10 Hottest Mega-Cap Stocks of 2025
10. Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR)
Market Capitalization: $416.20 billion
Year-to-Date Performance: 133.33%
Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 78
Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) is one of the Hottest Mega-Cap Stocks of 2025. On October 13, The DJS Law Group announced that it is investigating Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) for violations of securities laws on behalf of the company’s investors.
The investigation follows a report by Reuters, published on October 4, which cited a recent internal Army memo. The memo stated that the US Army’s battlefield communication network, which was being undertaken by Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR), Anduril, and other companies, has fundamental security problems.
The NGC2 platform connects soldiers, sensors, vehicles, and commanders with real-time data. The memo notes,
“We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure.”
Although a spokesperson from Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) noted that no vulnerabilities were found in the Palantir platform. However, the Army memo noted battlefield communications networks to be treated as a very high risk, given the hosted 3rd party applications.
The DJS Law Group investigation is focused on assessing whether Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) issued misleading statements and/or failed to disclose important information with regard to the Reuters report.
Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) is a technology company that develops software platforms to assist in counterterrorism investigations and operations. Some of the company’s key platforms include Gotham, Foundry, Apollo, and the Artificial Intelligence Platform.
9. Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU)
Market Capitalization: $203.84 billion
Year-to-Date Performance: 107.95%
Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 94
Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) is one of the Hottest Mega-Cap Stocks of 2025. On October 13, Karl Ackerman from BNP Paribas Exane upgraded Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) from Underperform to Outperform and raised the firm’s price target on the stock from $100 to $270.
The analyst noted that their firm has now fully embraced the high-bandwidth memory sector as a separate growth vector. He believes that Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) and the memory sector in general are entering the early innings of a super cycle.
In addition to BNP Paribas Exane, on October 8, Timothy Arcuri from UBS also raised the firm’s price target on Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) from $195 to $225, while reiterating a Buy rating on the stock.
Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) is a technology company that provides memory and storage solutions. The company manufactures a portfolio of high-performance memory and storage products, including DRAM, NAND, and NOR technologies.
