The Best and Worst of the Year
Hi there!
Merry Christmas! I hope you're having a wonderful holiday season.
This is a short and crisp weekender, where we highlight some of the best and worst performing stocks from the:
S&P/ASX 200
S&P/ASX 300
All ASX-listed companies
Let's dive in.
Investor sentiment survey
ASX 200: Unstoppable gold stocks and a broad-basket of losers
DroneShield still managed to top the leaderboards despite closing the year at ~$3.93 vs. its record high of $6.71 on 7 October. Besides that, eight of the ten stocks above were unsurprisingly ... gold miners.
On the flip side, lots of different themes led to the downside:
High PEs: GYG
Earnings flops: REH, CSL, EBO
M&A: WTC, XRO
Housing sector: REH, JHX
All Ords: Still gold
Resources dominated the All Ords, with various explorers delivering >1,000% returns. In terms of losers, Nuix flopped (again), retail stocks struggled and IDP Education is still on the backfoot.
ASX: The 10-baggers
There were exactly ten 10-baggers for 2025, most of which reflect game-changing discoveries.
For Dateline Resources, the rally was backed by newsflow around its Colosseum rare earths project, which is located 10km along strike from MP Materials' Mountain Pass. Its year-to-date gains actually peaked at ~22,000% in early October.
Meanwhile Sunrise Energy Minerals is set to close out the year near record highs off the back of progress at its Syerston scandium project. It's one of the largest, highest-grade deposits globally, with a recent five-year offtake signed with Lockheed Martin for up to 25% of its scandium output.
As for losers ... well ... many of them are in pretty bad shape heading into 2026 (if you know what I mean).
