These Stocks Are the Market’s Biggest Winners and Losers in 2025
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Chip stocks and data storage companies led the S&P 500 in 2025, driven by the growth of AI and hyperscalers' spending on data centers.
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Market impact analysis based on bullish sentiment with 90% confidence.
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The AI trade broadened out this year, as chip stocks again led the S&P 500 but were joined by the shares of companies tied to building the data centers that will power the technology. Three of the index’s top 10 performers in 2025 were data storage companies, which are among the main beneficiaries of the hundreds of billions of dollars in pledged spending by the giant AI cloud service providers known as hyperscalers.
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Original article published by Yahoo Finance on December 31, 2025. Analysis and insights provided by AnalystMarkets AI.