Top trades by global Sharesight users — October 2025

Welcome to the October 2025 edition of Sharesight’s monthly trading snapshot for global investors, where we look at the top 20 trades made by Sharesight users around the world, excluding Australia and New Zealand (which we cover separately). Below we will reveal the top trades by our global userbase, highlighting some of the most popular stocks and the market-moving news behind them.

Top trades in October 2025

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This month’s top trades were led by NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), which saw its share price reach all-time highs. The top trades were followed by Vanguard’s S&P 500 ETF (ARCA: VOO) and Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA).

It should be noted that the assets in our trading snapshots are ordered by the number of Sharesight users trading that asset, while the size of the bars indicate the actual trade volume. So while there were more customers trading in VOO, the volume of TSLA trades was higher, meaning that while there were fewer people trading in TSLA compared to VOO, they made more trades.

Let’s look at the market-moving news behind some of this month’s top stocks:

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA)

• With 1,500% share price growth in three years, is NVIDIA in a bubble?
• NVIDIA becomes world’s first company worth US$5 trillion

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA)

• Tesla share price falls as investors underwhelmed by new lower-cost cars
• Tesla profit drops despite record revenue

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN)

• Amazon share price rises 10% after AWS reports strongest quarterly growth in almost three years
• Raises spending forecast to US$125 billion

Meta (NASDAQ: FB)

• Meta share price plunges as company projects higher expenses in 2026
• Meta stock suffers biggest one-day loss in three years

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)

• Microsoft shares slide despite strong cloud growth
• Investors sell off Microsoft shares due to AI spending scepticism

Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB)

• Rocket Lab shares rise following series of new launch deals
• Rocket Lab share price up almost 600% in a year

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)

• Apple becomes third stock ever to exceed US$4 trillion market cap
• Reports record iPhone sales, forecasts 10-12% revenue growth in quarter ending Decembers

Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG)

• Alphabet share price hits record high after beating earnings expectations, exceeding US$100 billion quarterly revenue
• Is Alphabet a stronger AI play than Meta?

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