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Large-cap stocks have the power to shape entire industries thanks to their size and widespread influence. With such vast footprints, however, finding new areas for growth is much harder than for smaller, more agile players.

Companies with solid operating margins have a competitive edge, allowing them to reinvest for sustainable expansion. The best of these businesses balance profitability with reinvestment, setting themselves up for long-term success.

In an interview, Chief Executive Arvind Krishna said he saw an opening to provide software that integrates customers' AI agents from other providers -- among them Salesforce, Workday and Adobe -- and lets them build their own agents for untapped use cases, with IBM's help. IBM's tools to help customers create their own agents, a process it said would take under five minutes, draw on the IBM Granite family of AI models, as well as alternatives from Meta Platforms and Mistral, Krishna said.

In a sliding market, Walmart has defied the odds, trading up to $99.32 per share. Its 19% gain since November 2024 has outpaced the S&P 500’s 4.7% drop. This run-up might have investors contemplating their next move.

Since November 2024, Allegion has been in a holding pattern, floating around $140.89.

Plug Power has gotten torched over the last six months - since November 2024, its stock price has dropped 59.4% to $0.80 per share. This was partly due to its softer quarterly results and may have investors wondering how to approach the situation.

Although the S&P 500 is down 4.7% over the past six months, EnerSys’s stock price has fallen further to $90.71, losing shareholders 11% of their capital. This may have investors wondering how to approach the situation.