13 Stocks to Buy with Exponential Growth Heading into 2026

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11. Matador Resources Company (NYSE:MTDR)

Average Upside Potential: ~52.3%

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 39

Matador Resources Company (NYSE:MTDR) is one of the Stocks to Buy with Exponential Growth Heading into 2026. On October 21, the company reported its financial and operating results for Q3 2025, with record production of 209,184 barrels of oil and natural gas equivalent (BOE) per day for the quarter, surpassing the midpoint of July 2025 guidance of 199,750 BOE per day by 5%.

Matador Resources Company (NYSE:MTDR) highlighted its ‘brick-by-brick’ land acquisition strategy and selective lease acquisition program, which has been improving the quality and potential of the company’s more than 200,000 net acre land position in the Delaware Basin and increased its various working interests or mineral positions in key areas.

During Q3 2025, Matador Resources Company (NYSE:MTDR) completed more than $125 million in transactions in key areas. The company raised its FY 2025 full-year production guidance range from 200,000 to 205,000 BOE per day to 205,500 to 206,500 BOE per day. It also increased the number of operated wells that are anticipated to be drilled and turned to sales in FY 2025 from 106.3 net operated wells to 118.3 net operated wells.

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