We recently compiled a list of the Why These 15 Stocks Are Skyrocketing in 2025. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH) stands against the other stocks.
Stock gains always get people talking, and 2025 is no exception. Markets have moved higher for a while due to a shift toward tech innovation. The pace might slow after two years of significant returns, but investors have regained their confidence after the Stargate project was announced.
Small and mid-sized companies have started to pick up pace recently and are landing on investors’ radars as mega-cap stocks are now trading at nosebleed valuations. These companies have higher growth potential than their mega-cap rivals, and that explains the sudden surge of interest.
Smaller and mid-tier stocks did face challenges in prior years when corrections and interest rate hikes weighed on market sentiment. However, now that inflation seems more contained and Trump pushes for more rate cuts, things look even better for these mid-sized stocks.
Methodology
For this article, I screened the top-performing stocks year-to-date in the $5 billion to $20 billion market capitalization bracket. Stocks that I have covered recently will be excluded from this list.
I will also mention the number of hedge fund investors in these stocks. Why are we interested in the stocks that hedge funds invest in? The reason is simple: our research has shown that we can outperform the market by imitating the top stock picks of the best hedge funds. Our quarterly newsletter’s strategy selects 14 small-cap and large-cap stocks every quarter and has returned 275% since May 2014, beating its benchmark by 150 percentage points. (see more details here).
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Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders In Q3 2024: 28
Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH) is an oncology company that makes blood and tissue tests for cancer.
The stock is up significantly in 2025 due to its announcement that its revenue for all of 2024 was $737 million, up 31%. Q4 revenue also reached $200 million. Test volumes have increased in both its clinical and biopharma segments.
Moreover, Guardant Health has obtained Medicare coverage for its minimal residual disease (MRD) test. Plus, it launched a blood test for colorectal cancer.
The average analyst price target for the stock is $44, implying 6.8% downside.
GH stock is up 48.6% year-to-date.
Overall GH ranks 3rd on our list of the stocks that are skyrocketing in 2025. While we acknowledge the potential of GH as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than GH but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.
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