Big data stocks

The best big data stocks depend on your portfolio and investment goals — while volatility can be ideal for day traders, long-term investors will want to look to stocks with steadier gains over time.

Our picks for the best big data stocks

We round up a selection of stocks in or related to the information industry, weighting the list more heavily towards popular mid- and large-cap US stocks.

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1. International Business Machines (IBM)

International Business Machines Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides integrated solutions and services worldwide. The company operates through four business segments: Software, Consulting, Infrastructure, and Financing. The Software segment offers hybrid cloud platform and software solutions; software for business automation, AIOps and management, integration, and application servers; data and artificial intelligence solutions; and security software and services for threat, data, and identity.

• Previous close price: $160.28
• Market capitalization: $147,103,465,472
• 1 year performance: 7.77%
• P/E ratio: 20.7871

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2. Alteryx (AYX)

Alteryx, Inc. operates in analytic process automation business in the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North America, and internationally. The company's analytics platform enables organizations to enhance business outcomes and the productivity of their business analysts, data scientists, citizen data scientists, and data engineers.

• Previous close price: $41.71
• Market capitalization: $3,032,738,816
• 1 year performance: -5.55%

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3. MongoDB (MDB)

MongoDB, Inc. provides general purpose database platform worldwide. The company offers MongoDB Atlas, a hosted multi-cloud database-as-a-service solution; MongoDB Enterprise Advanced, a commercial database server for enterprise customers to run in the cloud, on-premise, or in a hybrid environment; and Community Server, a free-to-download version of its database, which includes the functionality that developers need to get started with MongoDB.

• Previous close price: $387.42
• Market capitalization: $30,180,192,256
• 1 year performance: 139.90%

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4. Splunk (SPLK)

Splunk Inc. , together with its subsidiaries, develops and markets cloud services and licensed software solutions in the United States and internationally. The company offers unified security and observability platform, including Splunk Security that helps security leaders fortify their organization's digital resilience by mitigating cyber risk and meeting compliance requirements; and Splunk Observability, which provides visibility across the full stack of infrastructure, applications, and the digital customer experience.

• Previous close price: $151.10
• Market capitalization: $25,461,315,584
• 1 year performance: 70.46%
• P/E ratio: 215.8

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5. Snowflake (SNOW)

Snowflake Inc. provides a cloud-based data platform for various organizations in the United States and internationally. Its platform offers Data Cloud, which enables customers to consolidate data into a single source of truth to drive meaningful business insights, build data-driven applications, and share data and data products.

• Previous close price: $184.47
• Market capitalization: $60,857,589,760
• 1 year performance: 25.09%

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6. Datadog (DDOG)

Datadog, Inc. operates an observability and security platform for cloud applications in North America and internationally. The company's products include infrastructure and application performance monitoring, log management, digital experience monitoring, continuous profiler, database monitoring, network monitoring, incident management, observability pipelines, cloud cost management, universal service monitoring, cloud security management, application security management.

• Previous close price: $114.31
• Market capitalization: $38,184,361,984
• 1 year performance: 53.93%

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7. Cloudera (CLDR)

Cloudera, Inc. offers a suite of data analytics and management products in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The company operates through two segments, Subscription and Services.

• Previous close price: $0.00
• Market capitalization: $4,736,509,440
• 1 year performance: N/A

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8. Palantir Technologies Inc (PLTR)

Palantir Technologies Inc. builds and deploys software platforms for the intelligence community in the United States to assist in counterterrorism investigations and operations. The company provides Palantir Gotham, a software platform which enables users to identify patterns hidden deep within datasets, ranging from signals intelligence sources to reports from confidential informants, as well as facilitates the handoff between analysts and operational users, helping operators plan and execute real-world responses to threats that have been identified within the platform.

• Previous close price: $17.13
• Market capitalization: $40,321,527,808
• 1 year performance: 140.50%
• P/E ratio: 264.7171

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9. Amazon-com (AMZN)

Amazon. com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products and subscriptions through online and physical stores in North America and internationally.

• Previous close price: $144.52
• Market capitalization: $1,496,776,572,928
• 1 year performance: 56.34%
• P/E ratio: 75.8325

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10. Elastic (ESTC)

Elastic N. V. , a data analytics company, delivers solutions designed to run in public or private clouds in multi-cloud environments.

• Previous close price: $112.80
• Market capitalization: $11,010,166,784
• 1 year performance: 95.93%

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11. Workiva (WK)

Workiva Inc. , together with its subsidiaries, provides cloud-based compliance and regulatory reporting solutions worldwide. The company offers Workiva platform that offers controlled collaboration, data linking, data integrations, granular permissions, process management, and full audit trail services; and provides tools that enables customers to connect data from enterprise resource planning, human capital management, and customer relationship management systems, as well as from other third-party cloud and on-premise applications.

• Previous close price: $98.30
• Market capitalization: $5,396,152,320
• 1 year performance: 27.94%

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Bottom line

While it's possible to turn a profit investing in big data stocks, keep in mind that — like any investment — big data stocks are not immune to risk. These stocks are subject to fluctuating conditions — both in the market and in the information industry, so carefully vet your picks before you invest. And if you're new to investing, or if it's been awhile since you've taken a critical look at your investing accounts, compare brokers to make sure you're getting the best features in your trading account.