1 Quantum Computing Stock That Has Crushed the S&P 500 Index This Year -- Should Investors Jump Aboard or Run for the Hills?
The benchmark S&P 500 index hasn't had the best 2025 so far. It's essentially flat year to date as of May 29, but along the way, it has experienced extreme turbulence, falling by close to 20% from highs made in late February, only to recoup most of those losses. Still, even in times of underperformance and uncertainty, there are always pockets of the market that do well.Savvy investors will look in the nooks and crannies of the market to find hidden opportunities and generate alpha. One sector that has been captivating some of them is quantum computing -- an umbrella term for an innovative type of tech that capitalizes on the unusual ways that matter behaves at a subatomic scale to create machines capable of solving enormously complex problems that even powerful traditional computers can't. One quantum computing stock, in particular, has crushed the S&P 500 this year. Should investors buy it or run for the hills?Classical computers store and process data in bits -- the most basic binary units of information. They can have a value of either zero or one. Quantum computers process and store data in an entirely different way, using qubits, which can also have values that are probability amplitudes -- complex weighted combinations of those zero and one states. Setting aside the fiendishly complicated hows and whys, using qubits to run calculations allows quantum computers to rapidly get answers to certain unusual types of problems that would take years or even centuries for a classical supercomputer.Continue reading
The benchmark S&P 500 index hasn't had the best 2025 so far. It's essentially flat year to date as of May 29, but along the way, it has experienced extreme turbulence, falling by close to 20% from highs made in late February, only to recoup most of those losses. Still, even in times of underperformance and uncertainty, there are always pockets of the market that do well.
Savvy investors will look in the nooks and crannies of the market to find hidden opportunities and generate alpha. One sector that has been captivating some of them is quantum computing -- an umbrella term for an innovative type of tech that capitalizes on the unusual ways that matter behaves at a subatomic scale to create machines capable of solving enormously complex problems that even powerful traditional computers can't. One quantum computing stock, in particular, has crushed the S&P 500 this year. Should investors buy it or run for the hills?
Classical computers store and process data in bits -- the most basic binary units of information. They can have a value of either zero or one. Quantum computers process and store data in an entirely different way, using qubits, which can also have values that are probability amplitudes -- complex weighted combinations of those zero and one states. Setting aside the fiendishly complicated hows and whys, using qubits to run calculations allows quantum computers to rapidly get answers to certain unusual types of problems that would take years or even centuries for a classical supercomputer.
