10 most popular stocks in April 2026 on Robinhood UK
- Tesla (TSLA)
- IREN (IREN)
- AST SpaceMobile (ASTS)
- Grab (GRAB)
- Microsoft (MSFT)
- Robinhood (HOOD)
- Strategy (MSTR)
- Netflix (NFLX)
- Palantir (PLTR)
- Coinbase (COIN)
This list does not constitute advice or trading recommendations. Most popular stocks included in the S&P 1500 or Nasdaq Composite, which have also carried a minimum average market cap of $1bn throughout April. Measured by total value of buy trades.
The value of your investments and the income you receive from them can go up and down, and you may get back less than you invest.
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All change, please. April’s list kicks out some big names in AI, drops the drones and welcomes a Singaporean superapp to the party.
AI infrastructure, crypto proxies and comeback stories drive April’s stock buys
The last time Tesla topped the list was July 2025, when Elon Musk was warning of a “rough few quarters ahead” as electric vehicle (EV) incentives were set to dwindle in the US. Nine months on and the EV firm is back in vogue after its April earnings beat estimates, with Musk leaning further into robotaxis, Optimus humanoid robots and general AI autonomy.
Speaking of tech megacaps, Microsoft hopped back onto the list of most popular stock buys in April as shares bounced off recent March lows in anticipation of earnings. An amendment to its deal with OpenAI during the month means the tech old-timer will continue to receive 20% of OpenAI’s revenue until 2030 (there’s now a cap which hasn’t been revealed) but ends the cloud exclusivity between the two, leaving Sam Altman to possibly explore working closely with other firms.
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Palantir makes the list again, as investors back the stock even with a share price trending down broadly since November last year. Contract wins and renewals on both sides of the Atlantic have made the headlines but they haven’t been enough to offset valuation concerns. The stock has regularly sat on a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio above 200x and, while the firm has made a habit of pipping earnings predictions, shakiness in the AI trade in early 2026 has made such a hefty valuation look precarious for parts of the market.
Netflix is another stock to jump onto the list, after a mixed month for performance. Despite earnings coming in well above expectations, guidance for new subscriber numbers and ad-fuelled monetisation failed to excite the market, leading shares lower into month end.
Turning to crypto - after muddling through, following another leg down at the end of January, the price of Bitcoin got a bit of relief in April. The short-term rally hasn’t all been plain sailing but appetite creeping back into the crypto market was enough to entice buying of Coinbase and crypto treasury company Strategy in April.
IREN shares saw a fall in March but sprung back in April, with investors backing the Bitcoin-to-AI story. The data centre company is steadily moving from the former to the latter but the shift is muddying the revenue waters, with takings from mining falling faster than the AI cloud unit is building. The stock’s performance so far had reflected that will to compete in the AI infrastructure space - it may be it now becomes a ‘show me’ story for investors.
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Grab shares entered April with a pretty consistently downward-sloping trajectory over the previous six months. The company’s IPO chimed with Covid-era enthusiasm for consumer tech but it’s a been a rough road for pre-profit tech since then (the firm only recording its first profit in 2025) and with rising interest rates and the market finding it hard to put a value on such a wide range of business segments (GrabCar, GrabFood and GrabPay are a few examples) the stock has struggled. Cut to April 2026 and a string of AI product launches, a credit upgrade from Moody’s and continuing profitability have put the stock back on investors’ radars.
And a volatile month (to match a volatile year to date) for AST SpaceMobile came on the back of a satellite launch led by Jeff Bezos’s space company, Blue Origin. Initially intended to go into low Earth orbit to boost space-based smartphone broadband access, AST’s BlueBird 7 satellite seemingly missed its mark. Given AST is planning on deploying 45-60 of these satellites by the end of the year, that setback took the shine off its shares in April.
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