12 Best Stocks to Invest in for a Stock Market Game

9. BigBear.ai Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:BBAI)

Price momentum over the past year: 58.64%

BigBear.ai Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:BBAI) is a Columbia-based AI giant delivering artificial intelligence-powered decision intelligence solutions. The core offerings of the company include data ingestion, data enrichment, predictive analysis, machine learning, supply chain management, and digital identity and biometric solutions. From national defense and intelligence agencies to transportation security and tourism sectors, the tech powerhouse serves some of the key critical markets. These customers depend on the company’s products to make decisions based on the best possible solution by creating order from complex data, recognizing blind spots, and developing predictive outcomes.

While this is a stock with mixed reviews, we remain a BigBear.ai Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:BBAI) bull, and we have many reasons to back up our stance.

In just six months, BBAI has witnessed a growth of about 90.3%. Although this may not be truly impressive, the stock still has a long way to go. Just recently, BigBear.ai Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:BBAI) was awarded a prime Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract under the U.S. Department of Navy’s SeaPort Next Generation program, allowing the company to provide its innovative technologies to the U.S. Navy and other federal agencies. We view this as one of the many projects set to take off.

This America First tenure is entering the world of AI. Trump’s emphasis on “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of AI” ought to benefit technology-delivering companies, particularly as overregulation could choke innovation. If America has to gain a competitive edge on the world stage, it needs to hold strong technological ground.

In addition, Trump recently disclosed the AI-centered Stargate initiative involving big names in the industry like Oracle Corporation and SoftBank Group Corp. This project, with an initial investment of $100B to fund AI infrastructure and support the “re-industrialization of the United States,” will benefit not only the ones directly involved but also the ones exposed.