
Occupying the runner-up spot behind retail darling Palantir (PLTR) in the race for the best-performing stocks in the Nasdaq-100 ($IUXX) is no easy feat. This means one has to outperform giants such as Nvidia (NVDA), Microsoft (MSFT), and Meta (META). With a YTD rally of 59.4%, shares of IDEXX Laboratories (IDXX) have done this quite comfortably.