Axon Enterprise Inc Stock News

Don't let the S&P 500's skid in December fool you. There was still lots of money to be made in stocks in the month and year.

The S&P 500 index is up 25% year to date, and it's no surprise to see several of the biggest gainers in 2024 were companies benefiting from the growth in artificial intelligence (AI). Here are the top five performers through the market close on Dec. 23, 2024.

The Nasdaq Composite is one of the closely watched stock market indexes in the U.S. The wide-ranging tech-focused index tracks the performance of roughly 3,000 stocks listed on the exchange. The Nasdaq-100 is a subsection of that index, tracking the performance of approximately 100 of the largest non-financial companies on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

Josh Isner is the president of Axon Enterprise and has been with the company for over 15 years. In this podcast, he joins Motley Fool analyst Jason Moser to discuss:

Nvidia and Amazon.com lead the list of stocks scoring rare Strong Buy consensus ratings this month, but Micron Technologies fell off.

It hasn't been a great kickoff for the newest members of the Nasdaq 100 Index.

Axon (AXON 0.56%) has become the go-to in body cameras for law enforcement, and we now know retailer Walmart (WMT 0.33%) is bringing body cameras into its stores. Does this open a new market for Axon?

Nvidia is the greatest stock of the past decade, as measured by price appreciation. According to Macrotrends, the stock price rose at a compound annual growth rate of 76% over the last 10 years, as of this writing.