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10 Stocks Delivering Outsized Gains; 3 Are Hitting Record Highs

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Ten stocks capped off the trading week boasting strong gains, bucking a mixed broader market, as investors took heart from a series of industry developments and positive company-specific news, among others. Of the 10 stocks, three companies hit new record highs.

Meanwhile, only the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 finished in the green during the day, up 0.28 percent and 0.03 percent, respectively. The Dow Jones dropped by 0.48 percent.

In this article, we identify the 10 top-performing stocks on Friday 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. IREN Ltd. (NASDAQ:IREN)

IREN snapped a three-day losing streak on Friday, jumping 8.46 percent to close at $56.68 apiece as investors repositioned portfolios ahead of the results of its earnings performance for the second quarter of fiscal year 2026.

According to the company, it is scheduled to release its financial and operating highlights after market close on Thursday, February 5.

For the fiscal period, IREN Ltd. (NASDAQ:IREN) is targeting to register $3.4 billion in annualized revenue and expand to 140,000 GPUs to support the expansion of artificial intelligence.

“Our announced expansion to 140k GPUs represents only 16 percent of our 3GW grid-connected power portfolio, providing ample capacity to continue scaling IREN’s AI Cloud platform and drive long-term value creation,” IREN Ltd. (NASDAQ:IREN) co-founder and co-CEO Daniel Roberts earlier said.

“We secured several new multi-year contracts, including a landmark partnership with Microsoft, which solidifies IREN’s position as a leading AI Cloud Service Provider and expands our reach into new hyperscale customer segments,” he added.

9. Hycroft Mining Holding Corp. (NASDAQ:HYMC)

Hycroft soared to a new four-year record on Friday, as investors continued to load up portfolios amid silver and gold’s climb to new all-time highs.

At intra-day trading, Hycroft Mining Holding Corp. (NASDAQ:HYMC) jumped to its highest price of $51.47 before paring gains to end the day just up by 8.48 percent at $50.65 apiece. This as spot prices of silver cracked past the $103 level, while gold ran to as high as $4,988, or just $12 shy of the $5,000 territory.

The rally in precious metals and mining stocks remains boosted by geopolitical tensions between the world’s largest economy and the European Union despite both parties already recalling previously announced tariff plans, as investors stayed cautious amid a volatile and unpredictable US president.

Meanwhile, Hycroft Mining Holding Corp. (NASDAQ:HYMC) announced earlier that it had found the highest grades of silver in the Vortex Silver System at its Nevada site, and that drilling results in all depths and directions show continuity of resources.

Hycroft Mining Holding Corp. (NASDAQ:HYMC) is a US-based gold and silver producer exploring and developing one of the world’s largest precious metals deposits in Nevada.

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The $250 Trillion AI Hype is Real. A few years from now, you’ll probably wish you’d bought this stock.

When Jeff Bezos said that one breakthrough technology would shape Amazon’s destiny, even Wall Street’s biggest analysts were caught off guard.

Fast forward a year and Amazon’s new CEO Andy Jassy described generative AI as a “once-in-a-lifetime” technology that is already being used across Amazon to reinvent customer experiences.

At the 8th Future Investment Initiative conference, Elon Musk predicted that by 2040 there would be at least 10 billion humanoid robots, with each priced between $20,000 and $25,000.

Do the math. According to Musk, this technology could be worth $250 trillion by 2040.

Put another way, that’s roughly equal to:

  • 175 Teslas
  • 107 Amazons
  • 140 Metas
  • 84 Googles
  • 65 Microsofts
  • And 55 Nvidias

And here’s the wild part — this $250 trillion wave isn’t tied to one company, but to an entire ecosystem of AI innovators set to reshape the global economy.

It’s a leap so massive, it could reshape how businesses, governments, and consumers operate worldwide.

Even if that $250 trillion figure sounds ambitious, major firms like PwC and McKinsey still see AI unlocking multi-trillion-dollar potential.

How could anything be worth that much?

The answer lies in a breakthrough so powerful it’s redefining how humanity works, learns, and creates.

And this breakthrough has already set off a frenzy among hedge funds and Wall Street’s top investors.

What most investors don’t realize is that one under-owned company holds the key to this $250 trillion revolution.

In fact, Verge argues this company’s supercheap AI technology should concern rivals.

Before I reveal the details, let’s talk about how some of the richest people on the planet are positioning themselves.

  • Bill Gates sees artificial intelligence as the “biggest technological advance in my lifetime,” more transformative than the internet or personal computer, capable of improving healthcare, education, and addressing climate change.
  • Larry Ellison — through Oracle, is spending billions on Nvidia chips and partnering with Cohere to embed generative AI across Oracle’s cloud and apps.
  • Warren Buffett — not known for tech hype — says this breakthrough could have a ‘hugely beneficial social impact.

When billionaires from Silicon Valley to Wall Street line up behind the same idea — you know it’s worth paying attention to.

Even as we admire what Tesla, Nvidia, Alphabet, and Microsoft have built, we believe an even greater opportunity lies elsewhere…

But the real story isn’t Nvidia — it’s a much smaller company quietly improving the critical technology that makes this entire revolution possible.

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