August’s biggest S&P 500 winners were anything but boring.
Moderna led the pack with a massive +156.0% return, while Palantir followed at +51.5%.
Other standout performers included:
Veeva Systems: +40.2%
Salesforce: +40.0%
Paramount Skydance: +37.1%
Newmont: +34.5%
ServiceNow: +33.1%
Super Micro Computer: +31.3%
Gartner: +31.2%
Sandisk: +29.0%
The mix is interesting: healthcare, software, AI infrastructure and gold all showed up among the month’s strongest performers.
