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9 Best 5G Stocks to Buy Right Now

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In this article, we will take a look at the 9 Best 5G Stocks to Buy Right Now.

5G, the fifth generation of wireless cellular technology, provides significant advances in speed and capacity over previous generations. By the end of 2025, the total number of 5G connections across the globe had topped 2.7 billion. This massive expansion predicts a significantly higher rate of 5G deployment than previous wireless generations. By 2030, mobile technology is expected to contribute about $1 trillion to the world’s economy, making it the fastest-growing technology yet.

According to an SNS Telecom & IT analysis, global investment in private LTE and 5G network infrastructure for vertical markets would increase at a CAGR of nearly 22% from 2025 to 2028, eventually topping $7.2 billion by the close of 2028.

This consistent, significant growth contrasts with the slow pace of infrastructure spending in the significantly larger but comparatively stable public mobile network sector, although standalone 5G core investments are increasing. According to Counterpoint Research, around 80 global mobile network providers have already introduced commercial 5G standalone services, with Europe seeing significant traction in the past year.

Our Methodology

To make our list of the best 5G stocks to buy now, we chose and selected notable names that hold favorable views among market experts and analysts. While 5G technology is the primary focus of most of these stocks, several also include cloud service providers, holding companies with 5G-related subsidiaries, and semiconductor companies that enable 5G ecosystems. These stocks are also popular among analysts and elite hedge funds.

Why are we interested in the stocks that hedge funds pile into? The reason is simple: our research has shown that we can outperform the market by imitating the top stock picks of the best hedge funds. Insider Monkey’s quarterly newsletter strategy selects 14 small-cap and large-cap stocks every quarter and has returned 599.2% since May 2014, beating its benchmark by 372 percentage points (see more details here).

9. Cadence Design Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CDNS)

Cadence Design Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CDNS) ranks among the best 5G stocks to buy right now. On June 9, Stifel maintained its Buy rating on Cadence Design Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CDNS) and increased its price target from $395 to $432, citing Cadence’s announcement of a multi-year Design Technology Co-Optimization partnership with Intel Foundry aimed at Intel 14A.

Stifel sees the announcement as progressively positive to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CDNS) in a number of ways, such as confirming the strategic worth of the company’s Design IP solutions and agentic AI-based applications in developing cutting-edge operations.

Additionally, Cadence Design Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CDNS) revealed on June 1 that it was launching the very first fully autonomous virtual engineer for semiconductor development in the field at Computex 2026. The system runs in the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime environment and is based on Cadence’s digital design automation portfolio, leveraging NVIDIA Nemotron models.

Cadence Design Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CDNS) states that by employing the technology, NVIDIA engineers have accelerated RTL validation cycles by 40 times, reducing typical five-week verification loops to just under a day.

Cadence Design Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CDNS) is a leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software, hardware, and IP used by semiconductor companies to design and verify advanced integrated circuits & systems. The company is well-known for its EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools, which engineers use to create complex 5G System-on-Chip (SoCs).

8. Fortinet Inc. (NASDAQ:FTNT)

Fortinet Inc. (NASDAQ:FTNT) ranks among the best 5G stocks to buy right now. On June 8, TD Cowen boosted its price target for Fortinet Inc. (NASDAQ:FTNT) to $160 from $125, keeping a Buy rating on the company’s shares. The firm cited the company’s market position in the core network security, SASE, and security services sectors as a major reason for the price target increase.

According to TD Cowen, AI is the next phase of development for Fortinet Inc. (NASDAQ:FTNT), while data center expansion and sovereign SASE constitute long-term tailwinds. The firm stated that its model takes into account increased memory prices and sees Fortinet’s ASIC method as advantageous.

Meanwhile, on May 11, Cantor Fitzgerald boosted its price target for Fortinet Inc. (NASDAQ:FTNT) to $110 from an unspecified previous level, maintaining its Overweight rating for the company. The firm cited Fortinet’s first-quarter fiscal 2026 results, which outperformed expectations across several metrics.

Fortinet Inc. (NASDAQ:FTNT) also increased its fiscal 2026 forecast for all top-line measures. The company now anticipates revenue growth of 15%, up from 13%, and billings growth of 18%, up from 13%.

Fortinet Inc. (NASDAQ:FTNT) provides cybersecurity and convergence of networking and security solutions worldwide.

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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.

Dr. Inan Dogan

Dr. Ian Dogan

Co-Founder and Research Director at Insider Monkey

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?

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  • 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.

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Dr. Inan Dogan

Dr. Ian Dogan

Co-Founder and Research Director at Insider Monkey

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