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.
11 popular big data stocks to watch
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 stocks.
- International Business Machines (IBM)
- Alteryx (AYX)
- MongoDB (MDB)
- Splunk (SPLK)
- Snowflake (SNOW)
- Datadog (DDOG)
- Cloudera (CLDR)
- Palantir Technologies IncClass A Common Stock (PLTR)
- Amazon-com (AMZN)
- Elastic (ESTC)
- Workiva (WK)
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- Sign up for an account. Provide your personal information and sign up.
- Set up a funding method to pay for the transaction. Deposit funds into your account by linking your banking information.
- Choose the stocks you want to buy. Search for the stock by name or ticker symbol like IBM or AYX.
- Place your order. Buy the stock. It's that simple.
Learn more about popular 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.1. International Business Machines (IBM)
International Business Machines Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides integrated solutions and services in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, and internationally. It operates through Software, Consulting, Infrastructure, and Financing segments. The Software segment offers hybrid cloud and AI platforms that allows clients to realize their digital and AI transformations across the applications, data, and environments in which they operate.
- Previous close price: $266.76
- Market capitalization: $247,851,581,440
- 1 year performance: 58.54%
- P/E ratio: 45.5863
2. Alteryx (AYX)
Alteryx, Inc. , together with its subsidiaries, operates in the analytics automation business in the United States and internationally. The company's analytics platform automates tasks for workers across the analytics value chain.
- Previous close price: $0.00
- Market capitalization: $3,527,897,856
- 1 year performance: N/A
3. MongoDB (MDB)
MongoDB, Inc. , together with its subsidiaries, provides general purpose database platform worldwide. The company provides 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-premises, 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: $191.29
- Market capitalization: $15,530,393,600
- 1 year performance: -45.88%
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: $0.00
- Market capitalization: $26,443,769,856
- 1 year performance: N/A
- P/E ratio: 103.2237
5. Snowflake (SNOW)
Snowflake Inc. provides a cloud-based data platform for various organizations in the United States and internationally. The company's platform includes artificial intelligence (AI) Data Cloud, which enables customers to consolidate data into a single source of truth to drive meaningful business insights, build data applications, and share data and data products, as well as applies AI for solving business problems.
- Previous close price: $183.08
- Market capitalization: $61,167,030,272
- 1 year performance: 11.85%
6. Datadog (DDOG)
Datadog, Inc. operates an observability and security platform for cloud applications in the United States and internationally. The company's products comprise infrastructure and application performance monitoring, log management, digital experience monitoring, continuous profiler, database monitoring, data observability, universal service monitoring, network monitoring, error tracking, incident management, workflow automation, observability pipelines, cloud cost and cloud security management, application security management, cloud SIEM, sensitive data scanner, event management and CI and LLM visibility.
- Previous close price: $117.67
- Market capitalization: $40,454,647,808
- 1 year performance: -7.32%
- P/E ratio: 254.6522
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
8. Palantir Technologies IncClass A Common Stock (PLTR)
Palantir Technologies Inc. builds and deploys software platforms for the intelligence community to assist in counterterrorism investigations and operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It 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 hand-off 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: $129.52
- Market capitalization: $305,655,545,856
- 1 year performance: 474.37%
- P/E ratio: 563.1304
9. Amazon-com (AMZN)
Amazon. com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products, advertising, and subscriptions service through online and physical stores in North America and internationally.
- Previous close price: $205.59
- Market capitalization: $2,232,085,381,120
- 1 year performance: 11.30%
- P/E ratio: 34.2521
10. Elastic (ESTC)
Elastic N. V. , a search artificial intelligence (AI) company, delivers hosted and managed solutions designed to run in hybrid, public or private clouds, and multi-cloud environments in the United States and internationally.
- Previous close price: $92.32
- Market capitalization: $9,639,408,640
- 1 year performance: -12.99%
11. Workiva (WK)
Workiva Inc. , together with its subsidiaries, provides cloud-based reporting solutions in the Americas and internationally. It provides Workiva platform, a multi-tenant cloud software that provides data-linking capabilities; audit trail services; administrators access management; and connects and transforms data from various enterprise resource planning, human capital management, and customer relationship management systems, as well as other third-party cloud and on-premise applications.
- Previous close price: $71.46
- Market capitalization: $3,982,737,408
- 1 year performance: -10.72%
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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. If you're new to investing or if it's been a while since you've taken a critical look at your investment accounts, compare brokers to make sure you're getting the best trading features for your needs.More on investing

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