Over 300 Stocks Doubled in 2025! | The Motley Fool

This episode of Motley Fool Money features discussions on energy, technology, real estate, and more. Motley Fool contributors Tyler Crowe, Matt Frankel, and Jon Quast discuss: Solar energy and nuclear energy. Quantum computing and AI trends. A real estate meme stock. Stocks on their radar. To catch full episodes of all The Motley Fool's free podcasts, check out our podcast center . When you're ready to invest, check out this top 10 list of stocks to buy . A full transcript is below. This podcast was recorded on Dec. 11, 2025. Tyler Crowe: Looking back at some of the stock market darlings of 2025, this is Motley Fool Money. Welcome to Motley Fool Money. My name's Tyler Crowe. Today, I'm joined by longtime contributors, Matt Frankel and Jon Quast. The end of the year is sneaking up on us pretty quick, and I don't know, there's some instinctual feel as investors to look back at the year as December rolls around and take stock, if you will, don't mind my pun of the stock market darlings of 2025. What did well? What worked, and what could work again in 2026? Normally, we like to do some analysis of companies, a little bit of reaction to things in the news, but we're going to change it up a little bit on this theme of looking back, and we're going to look at some of the companies that did incredibly well in 2025. Specifically, companies that actually saw their stocks double in this year to date, as of our recording here on December 11th. Now, we can't do all of it because there was more than 300 companies that more than doubled this year. What we did is we each picked one stock that we think will continue to do incredibly well in 2026, despite the large run-up this year. At the same time, we're also going to pick one of that list that had a great year, but 2026, we're not so certain about. Of course, we'll finish out the show with stocks on our radar because maybe they didn't double, but we like them anyways. Let's start off on an optimistic note here in 2026, and the companies that we saw do incredibly well in 2025 and what we'll do well next year. Matt, kick us off. Matt Frankel: Well, first, the fact that we've had 326 public companies double or much more in some cases, is pretty remarkable. One thing that I asked when looking at this list is, is the business or are its opportunities twice as strong as they were when we started this year? That really narrowed it down. I'll do somewhat of a contrarian take here because two years ago, I wouldn't have believed I'm saying this. But I'm going to go with Lemonade , ticker symbol LMND. The insurance technology company. They had a rough few years in 2022-2024, but we're really starting to see things come together right now. Although it is, to...

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