10 Stocks Beating Wall Street’s Bets

Ten stocks capped off the trading week, boasting double-digit gains, buoyed anew by billion-dollar investments in AI coupled with strengthened expectations of an interest rate cut.

The stocks outperformed Wall Street’s indices, which all finished in the green territory on Friday. The Nasdaq led gains, up 1.15 percent, followed by the Dow Jones, rising 1.01 percent, and the S&P 500 jumping 0.79 percent.

In this article, we highlight the 10 top-performing stocks on Friday and detail the reasons behind their gains.

To come up with the list, we focused on companies with more than $2 billion in market capitalization and 5 million shares in trading volume.

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10. IREN Ltd. (NASDAQ:IREN)

IREN saw its share prices surge by 12.60 percent on Friday to close at $62.90 apiece as investor funds poured into stocks riding the artificial intelligence (AI) wave after getting a boost from Oracle Corp.’s massive $38 billion expansion program.

The stock rallied alongside its Bitcoin mining and high-performance computing (HPC) peers, as Oracle’s announcement allayed fears of an AI bubble and strengthened optimism that infrastructure demand for next-generation AI will continue to be sustainable.

In other developments, investors loaded up shares in IREN Ltd. (NASDAQ:IREN) ahead of the release of its earnings performance for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026 after market close on Thursday, November 6, 2025.

Earlier this year, IREN Ltd. (NASDAQ:IREN) signaled plans to transition slowly into AI servicing from purely Bitcoin mining to take advantage of the former’s rapid growth.

Last month, IREN Ltd. (NASDAQ:IREN) successfully deployed 11,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs to its existing AI partners, with full operations targeted by the end of the year. Meanwhile, the remaining 12,000 GPUs are on track to be delivered by the end of the first quarter next year and generate $500 million in annualized recurring revenues (ARR) from AI alone.

9. Opendoor Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:OPEN)

Opendoor jumped by 13.37 percent on Friday to finish at $7.97 apiece as investor sentiment was fueled by increasing certainties of an interest rate cut.

The US central bank is set to meet for its next Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting to decide on interest rates, and economists are already heavily betting on a 25-basis point rate cut following a lower-than-expected rise in September consumer inflation that solidified rate cut expectations.

Meanwhile, any cut move stands to benefit Opendoor Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:OPEN) and its real estate counterparts—an industry highly sensitive to interest rates—as it could significantly unlock greater lending potential by encouraging more borrowings from homebuyers.

Additionally, the Federal Reserve is projected to announce one more rate cut by the end of the year, largely supporting borrowing volume, as well as Opendoor Technologies Inc.’s (NASDAQ:OPEN) ambitious plan to expand in the entire US.