The Best Performing Tech Stocks over the Last 10 Years

Updated as of: September 12, 2025

Since the creation of the Communication Services sector in June 2018, it has been the second-best performer out of the eleven major stock sectors.

However, in first place is the Technology sector, whose total return has doubled in that same time frame.

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This article dives further into the dominance of these sectors by looking at the best-performing tech-focused stocks from the last year all the way back to the past decade, with data routinely updated by YCharts.

To create this list, we used the YCharts Stock Screener to find the best-performing Russell 3000 stocks across the Information Technology and Communication Services sectors over a 1-year, 3-year, 5-year, and 10-year basis.

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• Best-Performing Tech Stocks in the Last Year
• Best-Performing Tech Stocks in the Last 3 Years
• Best-Performing Tech Stocks in the Last 5 Years
• Best-Performing Tech Stocks in the Last 10 Years
• What Was the Growth of $10,000 Over the Last 10 Years?

Best Performing Tech Stocks in the Last Year

These are the top-performing Tech stocks over the past year, as of August 31, 2025.

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Best Performing Tech Stocks in the Last 3 Years

These are the top-performing Tech stocks on an annualized basis between September 1st, 2022 and August 31, 2025.

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Best Performing Tech Stocks in the Last 5 Years

These are the top-performing Tech stocks on an annualized basis between September 1, 2020 and August 31, 2025.

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Best Performing Tech Stocks in the Last 10 Years

These are the top-performing Tech stocks on an annualized basis between September 1, 2015 and August 31, 2025.

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What Was the Growth of $10,000 in the Top Tech Stocks Over the Last 10 Years?

If you invested $10,000 ten years ago into any of the ten best-performing technology or communication services stocks over the last 10 years, your total return would be no less than $175K.

The best performing tech-focused stock in the last ten years was NVIDIA (NVDA). A $10,000 investment into NVDA 10 years ago would be worth nearly $3.2 million today on a total return basis. The next best performing tech was Applied Digital Corp (APLD); investing $10,000 into APLD back in 2015 would’ve turned into $2 million.

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