now everyone wants to know which stocks make the most money right but the real secret is why they do so well the biggest winners of the last decade like Nvidia Celsius and Tesla didn't just get lucky they grew because they were part of big trends shaping the world in this video we're breaking down the 15 best performing stocks of the past 10 years and what we can learn from their meteoric rise now you'll notice that 2024 was a record-breaking year for the Market because of AI and on the alux app today we're doing a deeper
dive into all of this to explore what could change the game next what could be the next big thing after AI you can download the app right now and listen to it and we've got an extra exclusive offer for you download the app scan this QR code on screen and you'll get 25% off the annual membership and I'll be right there with you too every step of the way all right so let's dive into this video today shall we starting off with number one Quant Services now you might not have heard of Quant services but
they're a huge part of why you're even able to watch this video right now we could say they're the backbone of modern infrastructure they build power grids 5G networks and renewable energy systems the world has been building and rebuilding and we're doing it in record time back in 2015 power grids were aging and failing and Telecom networks were slowing down under massive demand if we had carried on at the same Pace we'd probably be in darkness right now and a lot of the hype around it especially with 5G networks was kind of negative right but
you don't follow the hype you follow the money 5G was gearing up for rollout which meant new cell towers fiber optics and massive infrastructure upgrades billions of dollars are being funneled into Renewables back in 2015 governments were already waking up to aging power grids the rise of clean energy and the need for faster Telecom networks so the three questions you ask yourself what are governments worried about right now what's rising and what will need to be better in the future to handle capacity if you read the news you'll see the worry about the slowing birth
rate in developing countries and how governments and industries are panicking about their future Workforce you'll see that roads Bridges and Water Systems in developed countries were built decades ago and will soon need massive upgrades that more companies are shifting to AI driven models which use huge amounts of data processing and storage where and how are they going to store all of this and you'll see the worry around Supply chains they'll need to get faster and more resilient we've already seen just how much the world is at the mercy of the companies and countries that control
its chain number two axon now axon was originally taste International and back in 1993 when it was first founded they only made one thing you guessed it tasers founder Rick Smith lost his two friends in a road rage incident and so he made it his mission to develop a non-lethal self-defense and that motivation is what was important it was all about safety something that can form a spiderweb across multiple products and services axon expanded into body cameras cloud-based evidence storage and AI powerered policing tools we've experienced years and protests and pressure for police transparency back
in 2015 the world was shifting protests and calls for police transparency were front page news and departments were being pressured to adopt body cameras axon was one of the only companies building this technology at scale back then now you would have paid about $26 for it back in 2016 and today it's worth more than $700 so another question to ask yourself would be what are the people demanding right now number three super micro Computing they design and manufacture high performance Computer Services storage systems and networking Solutions now 10 years ago their stock was hovering at
around $3 but these days it's sitting comfortable at over $55 per share but smci has been in the game for a long time since 1993 to be exact founder Charles leang was an electrical engineer and wanted to create high performance energy efficient servers he could see even back then there would be a demand for data center Services he wanted to innovate while trying to keep things environmentally friendly now how could an ordinary investor in 2015 have known that this stock could make them millions well you never truly know the outcome but you do need to
know where to look for predictions back in 2015 Publications like wired and Forbes were shouting about the rapid growth of cloud Compu Computing from the rooftops Bloomberg The Wall Street Journal and the guardian wrote about how businesses and especially the tech industry were waking up to climate change and being pushed by the coming Paris climate agreement to be more environmentally friendly so you put two and two together you look for a long-standing knowledgeable company that covers both aspects and boom you've got a potential million dooll investment in 10 years that patience is key and the
stock price jump from 2023 to 2024 shows it number four Comfort Systems USA INC now Comfort Systems USA doesn't sound like the next big thing right now and it didn't 10 years ago either now you would have to dig a little bit deeper to find out what made their stock price go from $17 to $390 in 10 years so let's start off with what they do their bread and butter is heating ventilation and air conditioning they install upgrade and maintain these system systems for large buildings 70% of offices in the US are over 20 years
old they run on outdated Heating and ventilation that cost companies millions in wasted energy add in the new regulations for energy standards and the covid pandemic and you've got a company at the Forefront of demand Office Buildings hospitals schools needed better filtration ventilation and better climate control to prevent the spread of viruses but even in the years before that if you were paying attention you would have seen that commercial real estate reports were flagging aging office infrastructure as a major problem there was a shift happening companies were willing to spend a lot of money on
these upgrades and they only do it if they need to it has to be essential anything essential that's getting billions poured into it is only going to increase in demand it's a lot like drought concerns and Rising water costs forcing companies to install water reuse systems or the food industry pouring money into lab grown Pro number five Fair Isaac Corp Fair Isaac Corp built the foo score the number that decides who gets a loan and who doesn't it's not just Banks who use it lenders insurance companies even landlords rely on it to judge risk in
2015 this stock sat around $80 not much excitement but the industry was shifting Banks were tightening credit after the 2008 crash and moving toward data driven Lending fintech startups were trying to change how credit worked offering loans without FICO scores using transaction data instead some thought this would disrupt traditional credit models but it didn't Banks didn't ditch FICO they doubled down on it laws got stricter borrowers got riskier lenders needed better risk assessment tools FICO expanded Beyond just credit scores they developed Aid driven fraud detection custom risk models and Predictive Analytics that let Banks decide
who was worth lending to and at what rate by 2023 the stock had climbed to more than $800 today it sits at $1,790 a huge increase in a decade number six nexgen energy nexgen energy is a uranium exploration and development company they don't mind uranium yet but they've got one of the largest high-grade uranium deposits in the world and that's why they're stock is skyrocketed back in 2015 nuclear energy wasn't getting a whole lot of attention oil was cheap Renewables were expanding and most people thought nuclear was too expensive and too risky but while headlines
were focused on solar and wind countries were quietly pouring money into nuclear research governments were starting to wake up to the limits of Renewables solar and wind couldn't give the constant reliable power that a modern grid needs and fossil fuels weren't a long-term solution so they started investing in nuclear energy again and NextGen was sitting on a gold mine of uranium in 2015 their stock was around 30 cents and it stayed under the radar for years but as countries committed to nuclear expansion uranium prices started to rise by 2023 the stock hit $4 today it's
around $6 which we know it sounds small compared to other numbers on this list but it's still an increase of almost 2,000% in 10 years and it's still cheap enough to buy now and cash in later countries like China India and even Japan were planning new nuclear plants the US started funding Advanced reactor technology and uranium Supply was tightening major mines were shutting down and production wasn't keeping up with demand a nuclear energy comeback is still building and next gen is holding on to the rains number seven Builder's First Source now Builder first source is
the largest supplier of building materials in the US Lumber insulation Roofing Windows if it goes into a house they sell it back in 2015 their stock was around $11 and these days it's around 140 increasing over 1,000% in a decade housing demand was steady but construction wasn't moving fast enough to keep up then things shifted low interest rates a housing shortage supply chain disruptions that made materials harder to get yet and more expensive Builders needed a faster more cost-efficient way to meet demand instead of cutting and assembling everything on site they started buying pre-fabricated components
Walls Flooring and roof trusses that could be installed much faster that's where Builder's First Source came in when the US needed millions of new homes and labor shortages were slowing construction people needed another option which was the perfect time for Builder's First Source to step up number eight broadcom now broadcom makes semiconductors and chips that power phones Wi-Fi networks and data centers if your device connects to the internet there's a good chance broadcom Tech is inside of it more devices means more data which means a bigger need for speed streaming gaming cloud computing everything needed
a faster connection and broadcom was supplying the chips that made it all happen which is why their stock is in inreased by a staggering 2100% in 10 years from $10 to around 220 then came AI training massive AI models meant huge demand for data center chips and instead of just selling semiconductors broadcom started focusing on custom AI accelerators and high- performance networking chips companies need stronger more efficient ships to keep up and that's how they landed to where they are right now number nine Arista networks Arista networks builds the high-speed connectors that cloud services Ai
and data centers rely on companies like Amazon Google and Microsoft run massive data centers those data centers need Ultra fast networking to move information instantly that's what Arista provides now their stock was around $4 but these days it's around 111 a more than 2600% increase and it wasn't luck okay it was Demand by the mid-2010s data trafficking was surging streaming cloud computing and AI models needed faster more efficient networks Legacy networking equipment wasn't built for that scale but arista's technology was they focused on low latency high-speed networking giving companies the ability to handle massive workloads
without bottlenecks Tech Giants weren't just adding more servers they were competing to dominate the cloud every company shifting to cloud-based storage and AI needed stronger more reliable networking Legacy systems just couldn't keep up and companies couldn't afford slowdowns so arista's technology became the standard for the modern internet number 10 Tesla you know Tesla we all know Tesla but if your first thought was that it's a car company you would be well kind of wrong it's a tech and Energy company disguised as a car company as a tech company it updates cars with new features through
software develops self-driving technology and Designs its own computer chips to make cars smarter as an energy company it builds giant batteries to store solar and wind power sells home batteries that reduce electricity costs and creates charging stations to support electric cars it might be hard to believe now but just a decade ago electric cars were really expensive G was cheap though and most car makers weren't taking electric seriously but Tesla ignored what everyone else was doing which is why their stock has gone up by more than 2,000% in the last decade it started at $14
a share now we're here at 350 now other major car companies are catching up though and with Tesla's CEO uh occupied with other things investors have raised doubts about the company's future even on a broader scale the electric vehicle industry is experiencing mixed signals first movers often have the luxury of a natural market dominance because whoever gets there first establishes loyalty but they also have the pressure of competition especially when that competition can build more freely off the foundation of your initial model so well who knows where this one's going to go number 11 Quantum
Computing so Quantum Computing Inc is working on Next Generation computing technology machines that solve problems thousands of times faster than today's best supercomputers in 2015 Quantum Computing was mostly theoretical scientists knew it had potential but the technology wasn't ready investors weren't paying attention but Computing needs were growing fast AI cyber security and complex simulations demanded more power than traditional computers could handle so Quantum promised a solution instead of using one and zeros like normal computers quantum computers use quantum bits which allow them to process multiple possibilities at the same time as research progressed governments Tech
Giants and defensive organizations started pouring money into Quantum Computing now Quantum Computing stock was less than a dollar back in 2015 so while the current $7 price might seem low compared to others on this list it's still an increase of more than 2,000% it's in the red at the moment because they in competition from Google and IBM but who knows a comeback could be on the horizon governments are funding Quantum programs for cyber security military strategy and AI acceleration it looks like Quantum Computing has moved from a theory to possibly the next Computing Revolution number
12 Advanced Micro Devices the world is all about those little things that power computers even the processors and graphic cards that make switching on your PC gaming console and data centers possible 10 years ago it wouldn't have seemed like AMD would be where they are right now Intel dominated CPUs Nvidia owned the high-end Graphics Market AMD was the underdog known for Budget Hardware not much else to be competitive though they pivoted and built ryzen processors which are faster cheaper and more efficient and within a few years Gamers creators and businesses ditched Intel in droves when
the data boom came and we needed high performance chips AMD was able to grab the market share from Intel they struck deals with Microsoft and Sony for PlayStation and Xbox which accelerated their more than 5,000% stock price jump in 10 years number 13 Celsius Holdings now Celsius is the biggest deviation on our list today everything else is Tech related and this one well it's an energy drink Red Bull monster used to dominate the energy drink Market but everyone knows that they're far from the healthiest options right people wanted that energy boost without the health downsides
and Celsius perfectly positioned itself as the healthy alternative now the fitness boom helped to push it forward and influencers gave it free advertising by posting Celsius in their workout routines they've had a roller coaster of a time back in 2015 shares were around 30 cents 2024 was a massive year when it jumped to more than $90 these days it hovers around $20 which is still a huge jump from 10 years ago but they've taken a hit in the last year number 14 applied digital so every revolution in Tech needs infrastructure the internet needed data centers
cloud computing needed massive server Farms AI needs something even bigger so high performance Computing or HPC facilities designed for massive workloads are the answer and that's where applied ital comes in they build and operate specialized data centers that power AI machine learning and blockchain processing traditional Cloud servers can't handle the heat literally AI models demand extreme levels of processing generating massive amounts of heat that standard data centers were not designed to manage applied data develops custombuilt high efficiency facilities to keep up with this surge in computing power now they've always been on a bit of
a roller coaster but there have been huge jumps in the last 10 years and analysts are predicting a surge in the price as we get closer to the reality of quantum Computing so that $9 in the red might not seem great right now but they've come a long way and they've got a long way to go and number 15 Nvidia you were probably wondering when we would pop this one onto the list thousands of people's lives have been changed they're financially set for life all because they bet on Nvidia all they did was create graphic
processing units for gaming now gaming obviously needs pretty powerful CPUs it moves fast the visuals are incredibly realistic you play against other people in real time it's the real virtual reality really so deep learning and AI models need far more power than the average CPUs and because Nvidia had proven themselves in the gaming sphere they turned out to be perfect for AI training by 2023 the company was already dominating AI infrastructure and by 2024 demand hit unprecedented levels now this stock which was 50 cents back in 2015 now sits at $139 a staggering increase it's
the big daddy of investments in the last decade but the question now is where are we going next well come back tomorrow because we're going through the predictions for the next decade that's all from us today my friend it's been great having you with us don't forget to download the alux app and listen to today's daily session on why 2024 was a gamechanging year in the stock market here's that QR code again just in case you missed it we'll see you back here tomorrow alux or until then take care my friend [Music]
