3 Stocks With Monster Potential to Hold Through the Next Decade of Uncertainty

The S&P 500 has much than tripled implicit the past 10 years, adjacent arsenic the pandemic, inflation, rising involvement rates, geopolitical conflicts, and different macro headwinds rattled the economy. As we look into the adjacent decade, we'll apt look galore of the aforesaid challenges.

Therefore, it mightiness look prudent to simply bargain an S&P 500 exchange-traded money (ETF), reinvest its dividends, and tune retired the near-term noise. However, immoderate of today's much speculative stocks could make adjacent bigger market-beating gains implicit the adjacent decade. Let's instrumentality a look astatine 3 of those promising plays: AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ: ASTS), Rivian Automotive (NASDAQ: RIVN), and QuantumScape (NASDAQ: QS).

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AST SpaceMobile's debased Earth orbit (LEO) satellites transmit 2G, 4G, and 5G cellular signals to mobile devices. These satellites assistance AT&T, Verizon, and different telecom giants widen their networks to agrarian areas that their terrestrial towers can't reach. It's besides processing the satellites for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's SHIELD program.

In 2024, AST launched its archetypal 5 Block 1 (BlueBird) commercialized satellites. In 2025, it launched its archetypal 4 Block 2 BlueBird (BB2) satellites, which are 3.5 times larger than the BB1 and tin process astir 10 times much data. It aims to person 45 to 60 satellites successful orbit by the extremity of 2026 and yet grow that constellation to much than 240 satellites.

From 2025 to 2028, analysts expect AST's gross to emergence from $71 cardinal to $1.92 cardinal arsenic it gains much customers and launches much satellites. They besides expect it to crook profitable successful 2027 and 2028 arsenic economies of standard footwear in. With a marketplace headdress of $26 billion, its banal mightiness look pricey astatine 14 times its 2028 sales. But implicit the adjacent decade, it could person plentifulness of country to tally arsenic its commercialized and authorities clients motorboat adjacent much satellites.

Rivian is an electrical conveyance shaper that sells 4 types of vehicles: the R1T pickup, R1S SUV, the R2 SUV, and electrical transportation vans for Amazon and different companies. Its yearly accumulation declined successful 2024 and 2025 amid proviso concatenation constraints, competition, and broader macro headwinds successful the EV market.

However, Rivian expects its caller R2 SUV -- which costs $30,000-$40,000 little than its flagship R1 vehicles -- to importantly broaden its addressable market. Its rising income of the R2 should besides boost its semipermanent margins, since it costs little to manufacture than the R1T and R1S.