The Top Ten: The Most-Hyped Stocks Worth $10 Billion to $100 Billion, October 20 to 26 | The Hype Board
US-listed companies worth $10B to $100BPublished
CoreWeave was the most-hyped US-listed company worth $10 billion to $100 billion from October 20 to 26, 2026, by Gus's Hype Score. It had 2.4% of the finance-site hype he counts, more than any company on the list. Its stock fell 9.7%, and on October 23 it closed at its lowest price of the year.
Seven of the ten fell that week. The S&P 500 (SPY) slipped 0.14%.
Every hour, Gus's machine collects the headlines the finance press runs about US-listed stocks. The 45 biggest finance and news sites carry the weight, by how many people read them: about 740 million visits a month between them, by Similarweb's September 2026 count. CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg and The Motley Fool are among them. Then Reddit and Yahoo Finance's trending list.
How the Hype Score works. Site pressure counts 60%, Reddit 20% and Yahoo's trending list 20%. A headline weighs by the site's readers, so one on CNBC counts for more than one on a blog. Each part is scored against the day's biggest. Every week the board looks at one group: a sector, an industry or companies that naturally belong together.
The most-hyped US-listed companies worth $10B to $100B
| # | Company | Sector | Market cap | Hype Score | Rank | Share of all hype | Week before | Trend | Site pressure | Hype points | Strong | Headlines | Sites | Anchors | Reddit/day | Trending | Hype in price | Price 7d |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CoreWeave CRWVIn focus | TechnologyServices-Prepackaged Software | $30.4B | 87.7 | 4 | 2.4% | 3.5% | ×3.2 | 287 | 9.5 | 5 | 517 | 62 | 2 | 65 | 19 | 83% | −9.7% |
| 2 | Nebius NBIS | TechnologyServices-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. | $41.7B | 78.2 | 11 | 0.8% | 1.0% | ×2.3 | 92 | 7.0 | 3 | 269 | 30 | 0 | 70 | 25 | 75% | −10.0% |
| 3 | Bloom Energy BE | IndustrialsElectrical Industrial Apparatus | $60.3B | 71.1 | 17 | 0.4% | 0.2% | ×1.8 | 47 | 5.5 | 2 | 126 | 13 | 0 | 38 | 36 | 97% | −9.9% |
| 4 | Moderna MRNA | HealthcareBiological Products, (No Diagnostic Substances) | $79.4B | 68.6 | 20 | 0.4% | 0.3% | ×0.4 | 45 | 0.5 | 0 | 149 | 24 | 0 | 32 | 27 | 91% | −12.4% |
| 5 | Rocket Lab RKLB | IndustrialsGuided Missiles & Space Vehicles & Parts | $32.2B | 60.2 | 29 | 0.3% | 0.6% | ×1.4 | 39 | 3.5 | 2 | 174 | 20 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 89% | +4.8% |
| 6 | Skydance SKYD | Communication & MediaTelevision Broadcasting Stations | $37.8B | 59.9 | 30 | 0.7% | 0.0% | ×6.0 | 89 | 3.0 | 2 | 54 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 69% | +10.1% |
| 7 | IonQ IONQ | TechnologyServices-Computer Integrated Systems Design | $11.7B | 59.6 | 31 | 0.9% | 0.4% | ×3.0 | 113 | 3.0 | 0 | 128 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 72% | −0.1% |
| 8 | AppLovin APP | TechnologyServices-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. | $87.4B | 54.2 | 37 | 0.2% | 0.2% | ×3.5 | 28 | 3.5 | 2 | 104 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 96% | −3.1% |
| 9 | Credo CRDO | TechnologySemiconductors & Related Devices | $28.4B | 53.8 | 40 | 0.2% | 0.2% | ×0.0 | 20 | 0.0 | 0 | 23 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 24 | 90% | −12.5% |
| 10 | Supermicro SMCI | TechnologyElectronic Computers | $21.5B | 52.9 | 46 | 0.1% | 0.1% | ×1.0 | 11 | 1.5 | 1 | 355 | 81 | 0 | 20 | 22 | 33% | +1.8% |
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What the columns mean
- Company
- The company, with its ticker.
- Sector
- The sector from the company's SEC industry code (SIC). The line under it is the industry.
- Market cap
- Market value in billions of dollars on October 26: shares from SEC filings times the closing price, or Nasdaq's or Yahoo Finance's figure where the SEC count is missing or out of date.
- Hype Score
- 0 to 100. Site pressure counts 60%, Reddit 20% and Yahoo Finance's trending list 20%, each on a log scale against the day's biggest.
- Rank
- Place by Hype Score among all US-listed companies that day, of every size, funds left out.
- Share of all hype
- The company's site pressure as a share of the site pressure for all companies that day, funds left out.
- Week before
- The same share seven days earlier.
- Trend
- Hype points in the last 7 days against the company's normal 7-day level over the 90 days before. ×1.0 is normal.
- Site pressure
- For each site: monthly visits in millions times the log of the hype points the site gave the company in 7 days, summed over the sites.
- Hype points
- Headlines with hype words in 7 days on the eight sites with full archives: 1 point for a strong word, 0.5 for a mild one.
- Strong
- Headlines with a strong hype word in 7 days.
- Headlines
- Headlines about the company in 7 days, counted once on each site that ran them. Price and option pages are left out.
- Sites
- The most sites that wrote about the company on a single day of the week.
- Anchors
- Headlines that use the company as bait for another stock, like "Forget X, buy Y".
- Reddit/day
- Mentions on Reddit per day, averaged over 7 days (24-hour counts).
- Trending
- Times in 7 days the stock was on Yahoo Finance's trending list when Gus looked.
- Hype in price
- The part of the market value above the company's book equity: (market cap − equity) / market cap. Close kin to price-to-book.
- Price 7d
- Closing price on October 26 against the close on October 19.
In focus: CoreWeave (CRWV)
CoreWeave rents out Nvidia's GPUs from data centers it runs, on contracts that last for years. It topped this week's board while the stock fell 9.7%. Under the debt headlines sit two questions: Nvidia is on every side of CoreWeave's deals, and the business rests on how long a GPU earns money.
Read the articleLast week's ten against the S&P 500
This is the first Hype Board. Next week's issue checks these ten against the S&P 500 (SPY) from the close on October 26.
Sources
- CoreWeave, annual report on Form 10-K for 2025
- CoreWeave, quarterly report on Form 10-Q, second quarter 2026
- Headlines, Hype Score and sectors: Gus's count of the big finance sites, Reddit and Yahoo Finance's trending list; sectors from SEC filings. Prices: Stooq and Yahoo Finance.