What are the 11 best stocks to buy right now?

The best stocks to buy right now can change based on market conditions and other factors. However, the 11 best up-and-coming stocks to buy in late2026 were:ServiceTitanRocket LabUpstartZscalerBillionToOneToastSnowflakeChewyLemonadeBloom EnergyCoinbase Global

What stocks will skyrocket in 2026?

It's anyone's guess what stocks will skyrocket each year. However, in 2026, artificial intelligence is the hot investment trend, so companies focused on AI have been skyrocketing in recent quarters. Notable AI stocks include Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL). These and other AI stocks, including up-and-coming names like Upstart, Bloom Energy, Zscaler, and Snowflake, will likely continue riding the current wave higher in 2026 and potentially beyond.

How much of a portfolio should be allocated to emerging stocks?

How much of a portfolio investors should allocate to up-and-coming stocks is a personal preference. A young, single investor seeking to aggressively grow their wealth might allocate up to 100% of their portfolio to emerging stocks. However, a more conservative investor might want to keep their allocation between 5% and 10%.

How do I research promising emerging stocks?

You can research promising emerging stocks by learning about their core operations, understanding how they generate revenue, analyzing industry-specific trends, examining competitors, and evaluating a company's financial health and valuation.

Best Up-and-Coming Stocks to Buy in 2026

A closer look at some of the most exciting up-and-coming companies.

By Matthew DiLallo – Updated Sep 4, 2026 at 11:43 AM EST | Fact-checked by Frank Bass

Key Points

Investing in up-and-coming growth stocks offers high returns but with increased risk.
ServiceTitan shows robust growth potential with a $1.8 billion revenue opportunity from its current users alone.
Snowflake's cloud data platform sees a $460 billion market opportunity by 2031.

Some of the best growth stocks aren't household names, at least not yet. These up-and-coming companies are still relatively early in their growth cycle. Investors could earn enormous returns as they reach their full potential.

Here's a closer look at some of the most intriguing up-and-coming growth stocks. Although riskier than more mature companies, they offer investors some of the highest return potential.

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Top up-and-coming businesses to consider

One of the best long-term investment strategies for growing your wealth is to invest in the stocks of companies that are rapidly expanding by tapping into new market opportunities, such as solving major problems.

Not every up-and-coming company will succeed, which makes this a higher-risk investment strategy. Still, the reward for investing in one of these companies can be well worth it since one big win can produce game-changing returns.

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Ticker Information Table
Name and ticker	Market capMarket cap calculated using publicly traded shares outstanding only. Does not include unlisted, private, or dual-class non-traded shares. Implied market cap may vary.	Sector
Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB)	$41.7 billion	Industrials
Upstart (NASDAQ:UPST)	$2.2 billion	Financials
Zscaler (NASDAQ:ZS)	$32.5 billion	Information Technology
Toast (NYSE:TOST)	$16.8 billion	Financials
BillionToOne (NASDAQ:BLLN)	$5.0 billion	Health Care
Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW)	$119.8 billion	Information Technology
Chewy (NYSE:CHWY)	$7.3 billion	Consumer Discretionary
Lemonade (NYSE:LMND)	$3.5 billion	Financials
Coinbase Global (NASDAQ:COIN)	$49.2 billion	Financials
ServiceTitan (NASDAQ:TTAN)	$6.3 billion	Information Technology
Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE)	$81.6 billion	Industrials

Data as of Oct 2, 2026. Showing 11 of 11 total entries.

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Here's a closer look at these up-and-coming companies.

1. ServiceTitan

ServiceTitan is a software platform for those in the trades industry (e.g., HVAC service providers, pest control, and contractors). It's growing briskly, with revenue surging 25% in the first quarter of its 2027 fiscal year to $268.8 million.

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NASDAQ: TTAN

ServiceTitan

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Moneyball Superscore

77/100

Today's Change

(2.36%) $1.55

Current Price

$67.34

Key Data Points

Market Cap

$6.3B

Day's Range

$65.56 - $67.82

52wk Range

$53.00 - $111.36

Volume

1.6M

Avg Vol

2.3M

Gross Margin

68.78%

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The company is just scratching the surface of its market potential. ServiceTitan estimates that the full deployment of its platform by its existing customers represents a $1.8 billion annual revenue opportunity (up from the current $1 billion annual run rate).

Meanwhile, it has a much larger $13 billion serviceable market opportunity within the trades and markets it currently serves and a total addressable market estimated at more than $30 billion across all trades and markets. That provides it with a very long growth runway.

2. Coinbase Global

Coinbase Global is the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S. It allows users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin (BTC +1.95%) and Ethereum (ETH +0.76%).

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NASDAQ: COIN

Coinbase Global

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Moneyball Superscore

66/100

Today's Change

(1.54%) $2.88

Current Price

$189.29

Key Data Points

Market Cap

$49B

Day's Range

$185.70 - $192.31

52wk Range

$139.11 - $402.16

Volume

5.8M

Avg Vol

8.9M

Gross Margin

60.31%

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Coinbase aims to build the crypto economy -- a fair, accessible, efficient, and transparent financial system powered by crypto. As more people start trading cryptocurrency and other digital assets, Coinbase will likely continue thriving. The company's market share of crypto trading volume increased to an all-time high of 10.3% in the second quarter of 2026, marking its third straight quarter of gains. Meanwhile, it sees a new market arising on the horizon, agentic finance (AiFi). AI agents could process $3 trillion to $5 trillion of transactions by 2030.

3. Bloom Energy

Bloom Energy is a leading developer of advanced fuel cells. Its systems are becoming the standard for companies seeking on-site power solutions, including AI data centers.

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NYSE: BE

Bloom Energy

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Moneyball Superscore

80/100

Today's Change

(0.22%) $0.60

Current Price

$277.58

Key Data Points

Market Cap

$82B

Day's Range

$272.38 - $287.15

52wk Range

$75.70 - $351.28

Volume

11.5M

Avg Vol

15.8M

Gross Margin

31.22%

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The company's strategic partners include cloud giant Oracle (ORCL +0.56%) and financial giant Brookfield Asset Management (BAM -0.04%). It's helping these and other strategic partners rapidly deploy power solutions for AI data centers.

Bloom Energy is growing blisteringly fast. The company expects its revenue to more than double in 2026 to around $4 billion, with even faster profit growth.

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4. Upstart

Upstart is the leading AI lending platform. It aims to improve access to affordable credit for more people while reducing banks' costs. It does so by leveraging AI to more accurately identify risks and approve more applicants than traditional credit-score-based lending models.

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NASDAQ: UPST

Upstart

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62/100

Today's Change

(-0.17%) $-0.04

Current Price

$22.95

Key Data Points

Market Cap

$2.2B

Day's Range

$22.55 - $23.38

52wk Range

$22.55 - $55.22

Volume

4.8M

Avg Vol

4.2M

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The company originated $4.2 billion in loans during the second quarter of 2026. While that was up 50% year over year, it's just a fraction of the more than $25 trillion in annual global credit originations. The company's revenue jumped 42% to $365 million. Upstart expects to grow its revenue at a 35% compound annual rate through 2028 as it continues to leverage its AI-powered platform to originate more loans.

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5. Rocket Lab

Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company. It delivers launch services, manufactures satellites, spacecraft components, and on-orbit management solutions. Since its first launch in 2019, Rocket Lab has delivered more than 200 satellites to orbit for private and public sector organizations.

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NASDAQ: RKLB

Rocket Lab

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Moneyball Superscore

81/100

Today's Change

(1.12%) $0.78

Current Price

$70.46

Key Data Points

Market Cap

$42B

Day's Range

$69.42 - $72.64

52wk Range

$37.57 - $151.00

Volume

23.3M

Avg Vol

19.1M

Gross Margin

34.11%

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The company's revenue rocketed 62% in the second quarter of 2026 to a record $234 million. It should continue growing briskly. Rocket Lab ended the period with a record backlog of $2.4 billion, a 137% year-over-year increase. It also agreed to buy satellite services provider Iridium Communications (IRDM -0.06%) in an $8 billion deal in mid-2026 to create a fully integrated space company. Additionally, it bought Motive Space Systems, a leader in space robotics, and Mynaric, a leading provider of optical communications equipment, in 2026. These deals will help accelerate Rocket Lab's already robust growth drivers.

6. Lemonade

Lemonade is a tech-based insurance company that uses an AI-powered platform to make it easier for customers to buy insurance and process claims. Customers can buy a new insurance policy in a matter of minutes, and Lemonade can process claims in a few seconds. That's lightning-fast compared to the days it often takes traditional insurance companies to process and pay claims.

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NYSE: LMND

Lemonade

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Moneyball Superscore

77/100

Today's Change

(3.59%) $1.62

Current Price

$46.76

Key Data Points

Market Cap

$3.5B

Day's Range

$45.05 - $46.90

52wk Range

$43.28 - $99.90

Volume

998.3K

Avg Vol

1.3M

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The company is growing quickly. Its customer count was over 3.3 million at the end of the second quarter of 2026, up 23% from the previous year. It's also collecting a higher premium per customer (up 8% year over year to $433) as it expands its offerings to include renter, home, life, auto, and pet insurance.

Lemonade is steadily growing its car insurance business by expanding to additional states. The company expects Lemonade Car to play a key role in driving accelerated growth. With the insurance industry ripe for disruption, Lemonade can squeeze out a lot of growth by grabbing more market share from traditional insurers.

7. Chewy

Chewy is a pet-focused e-commerce company. It operates an online store and provides pet insurance and veterinary services. The company opened its first physical pet care clinic in 2024 and has expanded its reach into Canada. Chewy earns high praise for its customer service.

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NYSE: CHWY

Chewy

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Moneyball Superscore

71/100

Today's Change

(-2.64%) $-0.48

Current Price

$17.72

Key Data Points

Market Cap

$7.3B

Day's Range

$17.58 - $18.49

52wk Range

$17.40 - $39.70

Volume

7.7M

Avg Vol

8.5M

Gross Margin

28.86%

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The company's sales increased by 7.7% to almost $3.4 billion in the first quarter of 2026. This growth was driven by a rising average net sales per customer as more customers subscribed to its autoship service.

Chewy's expansion into adjacent markets is expanding its total addressable market, giving it plenty of room to run. The company agreed to acquire Modern Animal, a tech-forward vet platform, in mid-2026 to accelerate its evolution into a fully integrated pet healthcare ecosystem.

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8. Snowflake

Snowflake operates a cloud-based data warehouse platform. It offers companies solutions (including the AI Data Cloud) to store all the data they collect while making it easily accessible. This technology is helping customers manage their AI data in the cloud.

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NYSE: SNOW

Snowflake

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Moneyball Superscore

79/100

Today's Change

(0.72%) $2.43

Current Price

$341.99

Key Data Points

Market Cap

$120B

Day's Range

$336.31 - $344.42

52wk Range

$118.30 - $384.56

Volume

3.6M

Avg Vol

4.9M

Gross Margin

66.00%

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The company is expanding rapidly. Snowflake's product revenue soared 37% to almost $1.4 billion in the second quarter of its 2027 fiscal year, driven by new customers and stronger relationships with existing ones.

Snowflake sees a massive $460 billion market opportunity for its cloud data platform by 2031, more than two times its size in 2026 ($225 billion). Its ability to capitalize on this growing opportunity will help it continue delivering strong financial results.

9. Toast

Toast is a cloud-based restaurant management software company. Its point-of-sale and management system helps restaurants enhance their operations, boost sales, and deliver a better guest experience.

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NYSE: TOST

Toast

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Moneyball Superscore

82/100

Today's Change

(0.83%) $0.24

Current Price

$29.23

Key Data Points

Market Cap

$17B

Day's Range

$28.70 - $29.41

52wk Range

$22.26 - $39.73

Volume

7.8M

Avg Vol

9.4M

Gross Margin

26.68%

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The software company grew its ARR run rate by 25% over the past year to $2.4 billion in the second quarter of 2026. A big growth driver was its addition of new locations. It has increased its location count by 22% to around 180,000 over the past year. Toast still has a long growth runway ahead, given that there are between 720,000 and 730,000 restaurants in the U.S. and more than 1 million foodservice establishments in total.

10. BillionToOne

BillionToOne is a precision diagnostics company. It aims to create powerful and accurate tests accessible to all.

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NASDAQ: BLLN

BillionToOne

Today's Change

(-0.64%) $-0.68

Current Price

$105.76

Key Data Points

Market Cap

$5.0B

Day's Range

$103.51 - $108.58

52wk Range

$60.00 - $150.44

Volume

586.9K

Avg Vol

698K

Gross Margin

71.27%

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The company is growing rapidly. Its total revenue rocketed 64% in the second quarter of 2026 to $109.4 million. BillionToOne expects its sales to surge 48% to 52% for the year to a range of $450 million and $465 million. It continues to launch new prenatal and oncology tests, driving its robust growth.

11. Zscaler

Zscaler is a cloud-based cybersecurity platform. Increasingly, employees and customers need to access information stored in off-site data centers rather than on a central server, and they often do so from remote locations outside the office. Zscaler helps them access this information securely. The company is also combining its pioneering Zero Trust platform with AI to secure its customers' use of AI applications.

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NASDAQ: ZS

Zscaler

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Moneyball Superscore

75/100

Today's Change

(-0.32%) $-0.64

Current Price

$198.78

Key Data Points

Market Cap

$33B

Day's Range

$198.44 - $203.44

52wk Range

$114.63 - $336.99

Volume

1.5M

Avg Vol

2.9M

Gross Margin

76.38%

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The company's ARR climbed 25% to almost $3.8 billion in its 2026 fiscal fourth quarter. The cybersecurity company continues to grow rapidly as new clients join its integrated platform and existing ones expand their relationships. Companies increasingly find they can consolidate their security architecture with Zscaler's better, lower-cost platform.

It set an ambitious goal to boost its ARR to $5 billion in the coming years. Zscaler aims to achieve its bold target by bringing new customers into its network and upselling existing ones. It sees a serviceable market opportunity of more than $120 billion, including over $16 billion in securing AI.

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Key Sectors for Growth

The main sectors poised for growth are:

These sectors are disrupting traditional industries, positioning them for strong growth in the coming decades.

These up-and-coming stocks are worth a closer look

These tech-powered companies are all working to provide innovative solutions to some of the biggest problems facing other businesses and consumers. Their innovation positions them for robust growth in the coming years. Investors should at least consider putting these up-and-comers on their watch list.

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About the Author

Matt DiLallo has been a contributing Motley Fool stock analyst specializing in the energy, industrials, and real estate sectors since 2012. He also covers dividend-paying stocks, pre-IPO companies, ETFs, and other investing topics. He holds an MBA from Liberty University.

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Matt DiLallo has positions in Chewy, CrowdStrike, Klarna Group, Lemonade, ServiceTitan, Snowflake, Toast, Upstart, and Zscaler. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Bitcoin, Chewy, CrowdStrike, Ethereum, Klarna Group, Lemonade, On Holding, Snowflake, Toast, Upstart, and Zscaler. The Motley Fool recommends Coinbase Global and ServiceTitan. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

Best Up-and-Coming Companies to Invest in for 2026

A closer look at some of the most exciting up-and-coming companies.

Key Points

Top up-and-coming businesses to consider

1. ServiceTitan

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2. Coinbase Global

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3. Bloom Energy

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4. Upstart

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5. Rocket Lab

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6. Lemonade

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7. Chewy

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8. Snowflake

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9. Toast

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10. BillionToOne

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11. Zscaler

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Key Sectors for Growth

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Up-and-coming stocks FAQ

What are the 11 best stocks to buy right now?

What are the 11 best stocks to buy right now?

What stocks will skyrocket in 2026?

What stocks will skyrocket in 2026?

How much of a portfolio should be allocated to emerging stocks?

How much of a portfolio should be allocated to emerging stocks?

How do I research promising emerging stocks?

How do I research promising emerging stocks?

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How much of a portfolio should be allocated to emerging stocks?

How do I research promising emerging stocks?

How do I research promising emerging stocks?

Top up-and-coming businesses to consider

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3. Bloom Energy

4. Upstart

5. Rocket Lab

7. Chewy

8. Snowflake

9. Toast

10. BillionToOne

11. Zscaler

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2. Coinbase Global

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