Best big data stocks to invest in

Here's a list of some of the leading big data companies you can invest in now.

Big data is big, in more ways than one! These companies are working in the background for some of the biggest companies out there, helping them get access to information that can help them grow. Find out how you can invest in some big data and data analytics companies and what you need to consider when investing in Big Data.

Big data stocks to watch

Big data and data analytics come hand in hand. These companies all analyse big data (or support analysis) to improve customers’ technology and user interaction.

Big data stock 5-year performance (to Feb. '25) Link
Cloudflare (NET) Cloudflare icon 850.36% Invest Capital at risk
Arista Networks (ANET) Arista Networks icon -52.51% Invest Capital at risk
MongoDB (MDB) MongoDB icon 60.83% Invest Capital at risk
Elastic NV (ESTC) Elastic NV icon 53.79% Invest Capital at risk
Teradata Corp (TDC) Teradata Corp icon 10.03% Invest Capital at risk

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What is big data?

Put simply, big data is a large data set (who’d have guessed?). It’s usually too complicated for your typical data processing applications to handle and it comes with loads of challenges with managing it.

The key to big data isn’t the quantity of data available, but more how companies use it. If it’s used correctly, it can give companies some valuable insight into their potential customers and help them develop their products.

What is data analytics?

Data analytics is how companies manage the data they have. It includes extracting and analysing it to gain insight, draw conclusions and create actionable tasks. It doesn’t have to be the analysis of big data, though. It can apply to the processing of any kind of data, big or small.

Take a deeper dive into big data stocks

If you're interested in investing in the big data industry, take a closer look at what companies in this industry do and how the stocks have historically performed. Keep in mind that positive past performance doesn't guarantee that a stock will continue to rise in the future.

Cloudflare (NET)

Cloudflare offers insight and intelligence to protect its customers' Internet property. It can create a custom analytics dashboard and gain actionable insights into their websites.

Cloudflare is listed on the NYSE, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD1.6 billion and employs 4,160 staff.

  • Market capitalization: $60,866,908,160
  • PEG ratio: 2.3548

Arista Networks (ANET)

Arista Networks Inc engages in the development, marketing, and sale of data-driven, client to cloud networking solutions for data center, campus, and routing environments in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific. Its cloud networking solutions consist of Extensible Operating System (EOS), a publish-subscribe state-sharing networking operating system offered in combination with a set of network applications. The company offers data center and cloud networking systems, including newer artificial intelligence (AI) ethernet switching platforms; campus wired and wireless products, and routing systems addressing Core Routing, Edge Routing, Data Center Interconnect (DCI), Multi-cloud and Wide Area Networking (WAN) use cases; and a suite of value-add software solutions that leverage EOS to provide end-to-end orchestration, automation, analytics, network monitoring, and security.

Arista Networks is listed on the NYSE, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$6.6 billion and employs 4,023 staff.

  • Market capitalization: $138,120,085,504
  • P/E ratio: 52.7115
  • PEG ratio: 2.5468

MongoDB (MDB)

MongoDB calls itself "the database for modern applications". It's used by companies you'd recognise, like Google, eBay and Adobe. It's a document database, which refers to the way that it stores data (in JSON-like documents, if you were wondering). It has a comprehensive set of tools that help customers effectively analyse the data.

MongoDB is listed on the NASDAQ, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$1.8 billion and employs 5,360 staff.

  • Market capitalization: $23,476,740,096
  • PEG ratio: 1.6716

Elastic (ESTC)

Elastic is the company behind the search tool for some major companies including Facebook, ticketmaster and Just Eat. So whether you're looking for tickets to the next Beyonce concert, casually looking at your ex's new girlfriend or simply ordering a Chinese takeaway, Elastic is what's powering it.

Elastic is listed on the NYSE, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$1.4 billion and employs 3,372 staff.

  • Market capitalization: $11,723,887,616
  • P/E ratio: 195.0517
  • PEG ratio: 3.2467

Teradata (TDC)

Teradata Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides a connected multi-cloud data platform for enterprise analytics. The company offers Teradata Vantage, an open and connected platform designed to leverage data across an enterprise. Its business consulting services include support services for organizations to establish a data and analytic vision, enable a multi-cloud ecosystem architecture, and identify and operationalize analytical opportunities, as well as to ensure the analytical infrastructure delivers value.

Teradata is listed on the NYSE, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$1.8 billion and employs 6,500 staff.

  • Market capitalization: $2,376,230,912
  • P/E ratio: 21.4052
  • PEG ratio: 3.3535
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