If you’re looking for potentially million-dollar stocks to invest in, you can settle for an average return. You’ll need to look for companies that are willing to take big risks to generate life-changing returns.
Let’s look at three stocks that could be worth betting on.
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Quantum computing has the potential to be the next revolutionary technology and IonQ(NYSE: IONQ) It looks like it could be the best pure game in the space. The reason for this is twofold. First, their systems have achieved some of the highest fidelity (accuracy) calculations of any company, which is one of the biggest obstacles facing the industry. Secondly, it seeks to control the entire quantum ecosystem, just as NVIDIA what it does for artificial intelligence (AI) with its graphics processing units (GPU), CUDA software platform and networking portfolio.
IonQ has taken a different approach than most of its competitors and has chosen to use real atoms as the basis for its trapped ion technology. Because atoms are naturally identical, they are more stable than lab-made qubits. This helped the company recently achieve a two-qubit gate fidelity of 99.99%, which is one of the highest levels of precision achieved in quantum computing.
Meanwhile, the company has made aggressive acquisitions to further its goal of building a complete quantum ecosystem. This includes technology to help reduce the size of your systems, as well as networking technology that will help your systems scale and transmit data more quickly.
While commercialization of quantum computing may be many years away, if IonQ can become a leader in the field, the stock has the potential to be a big winner.
Agent AI is touted by some as the next evolution of AI, where AI agents will go out and perform tasks with little to no human intervention. It’s both terrifying and full of potential. It’s scary because the AI ​​is still flawed and prone to what the developers call hallucinations. For example, Wall Street Journal Journalists were able to intimidate an AI technology vending machine into giving them free items, including ordering more expensive items such as video game consoles. At the same time, AI agents have the potential to become a virtual workforce, helping organizations save a significant amount of money.
Not surprisingly, many companies are pursuing the potential of agent AI. This is starting to lead to agent dispersion, as organizations now have to deal with AI agents coming from multiple vendors. This is where Path to UI‘s (NYSE: ROUTE) A great opportunity is found as you have developed an AI agent orchestration platform to manage agents from multiple vendors.
As a leader in robotic processing automation (RPA), the company already had a compliance and governance framework that also helps keep humans informed. The platform can also help assign which tasks are best for AI agents, software robots and humans, directing them to the most suitable work. This is a huge opportunity, and there is a lot of upside to the stock if it can establish itself as a leader in the space, especially given the low valuation of its stock, which trades at a forward price-to-sales (P/S) multiple of less than 5.
Sometimes stocks are dumped for the wrong reasons, when what investors fear is actually more of an opportunity. That was seen with Alphabet in 2023 and 2024, where investors considered it an AI loser, only for the company to emerge last year as likely one of AI’s biggest winners.
I would throw GitLab(NASDAQ:GTLB) in that same segment, and the stock is very cheap now, trading at less than 5.5 times 2026 sales.
There is a big narrative throughout the software as a service (SaaS) space that AI will help replace many SaaS functions, and organizations will simply create their own software systems with the help of AI. However, if that were to really happen, GitLab would probably be one of the biggest winners from so-called vibe coding, as this would still need to be managed and done on a secure platform like GitLab’s.
Regardless, right now AI in general is leading to more software development, which is helping to boost GitLab’s revenue. Add in a pricing model change to a new hybrid pricing model based on seat plus usage, and GitLab should continue its strong revenue growth. This is a downed stock with huge potential.
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Geoffrey Seiler holds positions at Alphabet, GitLab, and UiPath. The Motley Fool has positions and recommends Alphabet, GitLab, IonQ, Nvidia, and UiPath. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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