Palantir Was the Top-Performing Stock in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 During the First Half of 2025. Here Is What History Says Will Happen Next.

The stock market weathered quite a few storms during the first half of 2025. From the emergence of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek, President Donald Trump's new tariff policies, ambiguity over the Federal Reserve's policy decisions, and some economists calling for a recession, the common theme in the stock market during the first six months of the year boiled down to one thing: uncertainty.Nevertheless, the capital markets managed to exhibit some resiliency. During the first half of the year, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 indexes gained 5.5% and 7.9%, respectively. Considering these indexes had dropped around 20% at their low points earlier this year, investors should be quite happy with the rebound.One stock that managed to outmaneuver the various headwinds torturing the markets throughout the year, however, is data mining specialist Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR). With shares soaring by 80% during the first six months of 2025, Palantir was the top-performing stock across both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100. Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool