After years of soaring on hopes for a high-tech artificial-intelligence future, the stock market\u2019s latest hot corner is an old fashioned part of the technology industry.<\/p>\n
Seagate Technology Holdings Plc<\/a>, which makes hard disk drives for computers, is the best performing stock in the S&P 500 Index<\/a> this year after soaring 156%. Rival Western Digital Corp.<\/a> ranks third with a 137% gain. And Micron Technology Inc.<\/a>, the biggest maker of memory chips in the US, is fifth following a record 12-session winning streak pushed its 2025 rise to 93%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After years of soaring on hopes for a high-tech artificial-intelligence future, the stock market\u2019s latest hot corner is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[181,28,102983,112,27251,5239,117,7047,102982,7271,923,72232],"class_list":{"0":"post-172228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-mark-elliot-zuckerberg","11":"tag-markets","12":"tag-michael-k-o","13":"tag-micron-technology-inc","14":"tag-sp-500-index","15":"tag-sam-altman","16":"tag-seagate-technology-holdings","17":"tag-software","18":"tag-stocks","19":"tag-western-digital-corp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}