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We all want our stock portfolios to be full of monster stocks, but that’s not an easy goal to achieve. If we’re lucky, we’ll get a few, and their massive gains will help offset some inevitable losses.
Here are some stocks that have been monstrous stocks and are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future.
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Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) it’s huge, including the dominant Office 365 suite of applications, the Azure cloud computing platform, the Xbox gaming platform, the Windows operating system, and even LinkedIn, among many other things. It’s also been a monster stock, with an average annual return of 25% over the past decade, and it’s still growing. In the first quarter of fiscal 2026, revenue was up 18% from a year earlier, while net income was up 12%.
The company has invested a lot artificial intelligence (AI)and CEO Satya Nadella said: “Our cloud factory and artificial intelligence at a planetary scale, together with Copilots in high-value domains, are driving broad diffusion and real-world impact… That’s why we continue to increase our AI investments in both capital and talent to meet the huge opportunity ahead.”
Microsoft is generating more cash than it needs to spend on growth, so it’s paying shareholders a dividend, which recently yielded 0.77%. (It might not sound like much, but it’s also growing fast: from $2.09 per share in 2020 to $3.40 per share recently.)
Its shares are also reasonably priced, with a recent price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 29, slightly below its five-year average of 30. It is highly rated by many Wall Street analysts and it’s likely to continue to grow, in part because so much of its business is with other companies, which use its services to stay productive and secure. (Its Azure cloud platform, for example, posted a 40% year-over-year revenue gain in the first quarter.)
netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) is another monster and has more growth potential. Over the past decade, it has averaged 24% annual gains, and it’s still growing. Its fourth-quarter 2025 revenue was $12 billion, up nearly 18% from a year earlier, with net income up 29% and forecast to rise 35% next quarter. Their advertising revenue is the key to their recent success. As the company noted, “In 2025, which was only our third year selling advertising, advertising revenue increased more than 2.5 times over 2024 to exceed $1.5 billion.”
