Top Performing Stocks 2026 - Year-to-Date Gainers Ranked

Among the 4,300 NYSE, Nasdaq and NYSE American stocks currently eligible for this ranking, MGRT (Mega Fortune Company Limited) has the highest gain in 2026 so far with +1,567%. It is followed by ANL (+1,041%) and XHLD (+866%). These are the largest gains in this ranking rather than recommendations, and a large percentage on a small company is the ordinary shape of the top of this board.

Every figure runs from January 1, 2026 to the most recent trading day, measured on split-adjusted closing prices, so a split inside the year contributes nothing to the number. The window has a fixed start rather than a rolling one, which is what separates this board from the 52-week ranking: on 1 January every figure here resets to zero while the 52-week figures carry on.

4,300 companies with a market capitalization above $100 million traded on NYSE, Nasdaq and NYSE American, each with at least one trading day inside 2026. A company needs only one close inside the year to qualify here, whereas the 52-week board needs a close a full year back, which is why this board admits more companies than that one: every company listed during 2026 appears here and cannot appear there.

Because that company's return did not accrue over the whole period. A symbol whose current trading history began inside 2026, through a recent listing or a relisting, has no January price to measure from, so its figure runs from the day that history begins and the dagger says so. Reading such a row as a year-to-date return would compare a partial window against full ones.

The five highest-gaining companies sit in Technology, Healthcare, Communication Services, with the leader MGRT in Technology. That describes the top of this list, not a sector ranking: the board orders individual companies by their own price change, and the market-context strip above the table reports the median move of each sector's ranked companies, across NYSE, Nasdaq and NYSE American.