By the StockSemáforo model · Updated September 12, 2026

Best artificial intelligence stocks

Artificial intelligence isn't a sector: it's a value chain cutting across several —the chips that train it, the data centers that serve it, the software that applies it—. This ranking gathers the listed links of that chain and orders them by the quality of their accounts, not the noise. The big risk here was never the business, but the price paid for it.

This ranking sorts by fundamental quality, not by whether a stock is cheap or expensive: an excellent company can be expensive. To find the fair price, enter its quote in the analyzer. The scores recompute on their own with each new SEC filing.

95

quality /100

Margin 64.6%ROE 139.4%Growth 32.6%Debt/EBITDA 0.09x

AppLovin is a mobile-app advertising platform: its AI engine decides which ad to show each user to maximize installs and purchases, mostly in games.

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NVIDIA

NVDA

94

quality /100

Margin 63.7%ROE 84.2%Growth 69.7%FCF 41.9%Debt/EBITDA 0.05x

NVIDIA designs graphics processing units (GPUs) and computing platforms.

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94

quality /100

Margin 42.9%ROE 38.4%Growth 25.7%FCF 44.2%Debt/EBITDA 0.85x

Broadcom designs semiconductors (chips for networking, broadband and, increasingly, AI) and, after several acquisitions, is also an enterprise-software giant (VMware).

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94

quality /100

Margin 49%ROE 30.9%Growth 37%FCF 54.6%Debt/EBITDA -0.76x

Palantir sells software platforms that help governments and large companies analyze huge amounts of data to make decisions.

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94

quality /100

Margin 55.9%ROE 50.1%Growth 28.5%FCF 29%Debt/EBITDA -0.28x

Micron is one of the few large global makers of memory chips (DRAM and NAND flash): the ones that store data in phones, computers, cars and data centers.

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94

quality /100

Margin 38.4%ROE 27.3%Growth 31.7%FCF 48.9%Debt/EBITDA -0.49x

Arista Networks sells the high-performance network switches that connect servers inside large data centers, with a software operating system (EOS) that is its real edge.

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93

quality /100

Margin 54.8%ROE 38.1%Growth 17.6%FCF 11.9%Debt/EBITDA 0.26x

Alphabet is Google's parent company.

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92

quality /100

Margin 40.3%ROE 30.2%Growth 14.6%FCF 20.2%Debt/EBITDA 0.1x

Microsoft is one of the world's largest tech companies.

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92

quality /100

Margin 15.1%ROE 36.4%Growth 19.2%FCF 25.5%Debt/EBITDA 0.05x

Vertiv builds the critical infrastructure of data centers: power systems, cooling (including liquid cooling, key for AI chips) and services.

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90

quality /100

Margin 29.8%ROE 26.1%Growth 19.4%FCF 18%Debt/EBITDA 0.62x

Meta owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

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