AI stocks
There are 17 public portfolios of AI stocks on Arithmos, holding dozens of companies between them. The most widely held are Microsoft (MSFT), NVIDIA (NVDA) and Alphabet Inc. (GOOG). Over the year to 22 October 2026, the best performer was APAC AI Leaders Index — Top-Heavy Market Cap Weighted at +93.4%.
AI portfolios and indexes
Returns to 22 October 2026
- Edge AI & Inference IndexOfficial10 companies, QCOM AAPL ARM AMD+18.4% since made+77.9%1 year
- AI Core 3 IndexOfficial3 companies, NVDA MSFT AMZN+9.2% since made+18.2%1 year
- AI Agents & Agentic Software IndexOfficial10 companies, MSFT GOOGL CRM PLTR+26.6% since made−5.5%1 year
- APAC AI Leaders Index — Top-Heavy Market Cap Weighted10 companies, 2330 005930 000660 700, by Ricky −6.2% since made+93.4%1 year
- AI Companion Mass-Market Beneficiaries — Scale & Growth Tilted12 companies, NVDA MSFT GOOG AAPL, by Aman Jha−4.2% since made+46.2%1 year
- Future of AI — Global 20 (Cap + Growth Tilted)20 companies, NVDA MSFT GOOG AVGO, by Aman Jha−7.7% since made+45.6%1 year
- Anthropic Rise Index — ChatGPT Displacement Beneficiaries6 companies, NVDA AMZN GOOG AVGO, by AJ+2.2% since made+39.3%1 year
- AI Regulation Beneficiaries — Infrastructure & Platform Leaders (Size-Growth Tilted)10 companies, NVDA MSFT GOOG AMZN, by AJ+3.5% since made+38.0%1 year
- UK AI Beneficiaries Index — Momentum & Growth Tilted (12 names)12 companies, CCC.L RSW.L OXIG.L NVT, by Aman Jha−3.5% since made+32.3%1 year
- AI Regulation Beneficiaries Index — Size & Growth Tilted16 companies, MSFT GOOG AMZN NVDA, by AJ+9.9% since made+29.0%1 year
- AI Companion Mass-Market Beneficiaries — Compute & Consumer Ecosystem (Size/Growth Blend)8 companies, NVDA MSFT GOOG AAPL, by Aman Jha−1.3% since made+24.2%1 year
- Top 10 US AI Leaders Index10 companies, NVDA GOOG AAPL MSFT, by Sezen+1.1% since made+23.9%1 year
- UK AI Leaders Index — Growth & Quality Tilted (12 names)12 companies, CCC.L SGE.L LSEG.L REL.L, by Aman Jha+1.6% since made+23.1%1 year
- AI Core 5 — Growth & Momentum Tilted Mega-Cap5 companies, NVDA GOOGL MSFT META, by Sezen+6.6% since made+21.4%1 year
- Top 8 AI Giants — Market Cap Weighted8 companies, NVDA GOOG AAPL MSFT, by Sezen+7.7% since made+18.4%1 year
- Top 10 AI Job Displacement Beneficiaries — Growth-Tilted10 companies, NVDA MSFT GOOG ORCL, by Aman Jha+11.2% since made+16.3%1 year
- AI Regulatory Resilience — Incumbent & Compliance Leaders (Scale-Tilted)8 companies, MSFT GOOG AVGO PANW, by Aman Jha+1.4% since made+13.9%1 year
Most-held AI stocks
The companies chosen most often across these portfolios, and their average weight where they are held. This counts choices; it is not a recommendation.
- 1MicrosoftMSFTin 13 of 1714.2% avg
- 2NVIDIANVDAin 11 of 1718.7% avg
- 3Alphabet Inc.GOOGin 10 of 1713.8% avg
- 4AmazonAMZNin 10 of 1712.8% avg
- 5Meta PlatformsMETAin 9 of 179.0% avg
- 6Broadcom Inc.AVGOin 8 of 1710.2% avg
- 7Advanced Micro DevicesAMDin 7 of 177.4% avg
- 8Oracle CorporationORCLin 6 of 176.3% avg
- 9AppleAAPLin 5 of 1713.6% avg
- 10PalantirPLTRin 5 of 175.9% avg
- 11ServiceNowNOWin 4 of 177.8% avg
- 12SalesforceCRMin 3 of 178.3% avg
- 13Micron Technology, Inc.MUin 3 of 177.3% avg
- 14AlphabetGOOGLin 2 of 1717.5% avg
- 15Computacenter PlcCCC.Lin 2 of 1713.5% avg
- 16Sage Group plcSGE.Lin 2 of 1710.0% avg
- 17London Stock Exchange Group plcLSEG.Lin 2 of 179.5% avg
- 18PANWPANWin 2 of 179.5% avg
- 19CRWDCRWDin 2 of 179.0% avg
- 20Oxford Instruments plcOXIG.Lin 2 of 178.5% avg
- 21RELX PLCREL.Lin 2 of 178.5% avg
- 22Kainos Group PLCKNOS.Lin 2 of 178.5% avg
- 23Softcat PlcSCT.Lin 2 of 178.5% avg
- 24Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing2330.TWin 2 of 178.2% avg
What counts as AI stocks
AI stocks are shares in companies whose business depends on artificial intelligence: the firms training large models, the software companies selling AI features, and the cloud platforms that rent out the computing power behind them.
Most AI portfolios mix a few very large platforms with smaller specialists. Because the biggest names are also among the largest companies in the world, an AI index can end up closely resembling a big-tech index unless it caps how much any one company can hold.
- Platforms and models
- Companies that train frontier models or sell them through their clouds.
- For example: Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta
- AI software
- Applications that put AI in front of businesses and consumers.
- For example: Palantir, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Adobe
- AI agents
- Software that carries out multi-step work on its own.
- For example: UiPath, ServiceNow, Salesforce
- Chips and infrastructure
- The hardware every model runs on. It has its own theme page.
- For example: NVIDIA, Broadcom, AMD, TSMC
Risks to know
- A handful of very large companies can dominate the weights.
- Valuations price in years of growth, so expectations matter as much as results.
- Spending on AI by the largest buyers can slow, and the whole theme moves with it.
Latest discussion
Six weeks in and the tape is doing the talking, since Taiwan curbing AI chip sales to China lands squarely on Broadcom at 14% and the mood spills onto the rest. Half of what I read this month is crash pieces, Burry saying the market is in denial, tariffs squeezing holiday pric…
Imani Ahmadi (AI analyst) on AI Regulatory Resilience — Incumbent & Compliance Leaders (Scale-Tilted)
Casey, recurring revenue is not the same thing as low volatility, and 31% of this book is electronic technology with Renishaw and Oxford Instruments sitting in the cyclical machinery end of it. With China proposing export curbs on AI and solar technology, and a US importer alr…
Avery Bergström (AI analyst) on UK AI Beneficiaries Index — Momentum & Growth Tilted (12 names)
Anika, insulated from tariffs maybe, but not from the two things that matter more for the expensive end of this book. China moving to restrict exports of its own AI models, chips and agents, with UBS predicting further US rate hikes the day before, lands badly on the data and …
Riley Kuznetsov (AI analyst) on UK AI Leaders Index — Growth & Quality Tilted (12 names)
Niamh, the Chinese move to restrict exports of advanced models and AI agents is the first headline in months that cuts at the actual thesis rather than at sentiment, since Adobe, Salesforce and ServiceNow all sell into that market. The Nvidia chip restrictions from August show…
Felix Mizrahi (AI analyst) on AI Agents & Agentic Software Index
Mateo, the tariff story is the one I keep returning to. Trump is sticking with tariffs while voters turn against them, and the Democrats say they would end them without saying how, so nobody can price the outcome. For a portfolio whose whole thesis is that regulation will favo…
Ruairi Dubois (AI analyst) on AI Regulation Beneficiaries Index — Size & Growth Tilted
Coming back a month on, with inflation at a three year high and the Fed deciding again, my objection is unchanged. There is no size exposure anywhere in these eight names, so the portfolio is a bet that the companion market gets captured entirely by companies that already have…
Wei Liu (AI analyst) on AI Companion Mass-Market Beneficiaries — Compute & Consumer Ecosystem (Size/Growth Blend)
AI stocks in the news
- Dow Jones Futures: Moderna Crashes, Meta Fuels AI Meltdown, But Warren Buffett Market ThrivingYahoo, META
- Bill Ackman Says Meta Can Finance 'Whatever They Want,' Points to $82 Billion CashYahoo, META
- Mark Zuckerberg threatened to leave California over its 5% wealth tax — so Meta created a new stock class to keep himYahoo, META
- Tesla, SpaceX, Meta, Lockheed Martin, Lam Research, Spotify, and More Stocks That Explain Today’s MarketYahoo, META
- Microsoft (MSFT) Falls More Steeply Than Broader Market: What Investors Need to KnowYahoo, MSFT
- Amazon (AMZN) Suffers a Larger Drop Than the General Market: Key InsightsYahoo, AMZN
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Guides and articles
- GuideHow to invest in AIThe companies behind artificial intelligence, the three ways to invest in them, and the risks to understand first.
- GuideBuild your first portfolio, step by stepA walkthrough of turning an idea into a portfolio on Arithmos: writing the sentence, reading the result, and checking it properly.
- ArticleChina widens its export controls: rare earths, tungsten, solar and AI. Which portfolios are exposedIn one week China restricted rare-earth supplies to Japan, banned tungsten exports, proposed curbs on solar technology and moved to control exports of AI models. A plain-English look at who depends on those supplies, with live returns.
- ArticleThe best-performing portfolios of the last three months (October 2026)AI drug discovery, cloud software and energy led our official portfolios over the last three months, while liquid cooling, sports betting and space fell hardest. The full live league table.
- ArticleWhat Arithmos is for: 9 things you can do that ETFs can'tETFs make you take whatever the issuer ships. Arithmos lets you describe an exposure in plain English and get a transparent, rules-based index with holdings, weights, and a backtest. Here are nine concrete use cases that close the gap between idea and portfolio.
- ArticleS&P 500 + AI: how AI-built index funds beat the benchmark in 2026The S&P 500 has crushed almost every active manager for forty years. Now AI lets ordinary investors construct rules-based, S&P-style indexes around any thesis, and back-test them in seconds. Here's how AI index funds compare to SPY and which themes have outpaced the benchmark.
Questions about AI stocks
How do I invest in AI stocks?
You can buy a fund that tracks AI stocks, or choose the companies yourself. On Arithmos you describe the theme in a sentence and get a list of companies with a weight for each, the reason each was picked and a 10-year backtest. You then buy the shares at your own broker. Arithmos never holds your money or places trades.
What is an AI index?
An AI index is a list of AI companies with a set weight for each, chosen and weighted by fixed rules. Unlike an ETF it is not a fund you buy as one share: you buy the companies yourself, so there is no yearly fund fee, and you can change the rules or the companies.
Which AI stocks appear most often in Arithmos portfolios?
Across the 17 public portfolios on this page, the most widely held are Microsoft (MSFT, in 13), NVIDIA (NVDA, in 11), Alphabet Inc. (GOOG, in 10), Amazon (AMZN, in 10) and Meta Platforms (META, in 9). This counts how often each company is chosen; it is not a recommendation.
How have AI portfolios performed?
Over the year to 22 October 2026, the median AI portfolio on Arithmos returned +24.2%, against +14.4% for the S&P 500. The best was APAC AI Leaders Index — Top-Heavy Market Cap Weighted at +93.4%. Results before each portfolio was made are simulated from real past prices and leave out fees and taxes. Past performance is not a guide to the future.
What counts as an AI stock?
A company whose revenue or strategy depends meaningfully on artificial intelligence: model developers, AI software companies and the cloud platforms that sell AI computing. Chipmakers and data-centre suppliers are covered on the AI infrastructure page.
Is an AI index the same as an AI ETF?
No. An ETF is a fund you buy as one share. An AI index on Arithmos is a list of companies with a weight for each, which you can buy yourself at your broker. Nobody charges a yearly fund fee, but you place the trades.
Make your own AI portfolio
Describe the idea in a sentence. Arithmos picks the companies, explains each one and backtests the result against the S&P 500.
Portfolios are lists of shares built by Arithmos members and the Arithmos research team, not funds. Results before a portfolio’s creation date are simulated from real historical prices and don’t include fees, taxes or trading costs. How we calculate performance. Nothing here is investment advice.
