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James Brumley, The Motley Fool
Mon, May 4, 2026 astatine 6:16 AM CDT 6 min read
After a heroic run-up successful April, the wide marketplace is backmost into affirmative territory for the year. But that's surely not the lawsuit for a fistful of maturation stocks.
As seasoned investors tin attest, the marketplace doesn't ever get it right. Sometimes it dumps the incorrect names, lone to extremity up watching them retrieve en way to adjacent higher highs.
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Here's a person look astatine 3 large maturation stocks that investors person dragged lower, but are worthy scooping astatine their existent prices.
ServiceNow
The wide sell-off of artificial quality (AI) stocks is understandable, but has besides been indiscriminate. Take ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) arsenic an example. Despite past year's gross maturation of 20% and its first-quarter top-line maturation of 19%, shares of the workflow automation outfit are down much than 50% from their July peak, reaching a three-year debased conscionable past month.
It's lining up much aboriginal income maturation than it's booking close now, too. As of the 4th ending successful March, its full remaining show obligations for the adjacent 12 months has grown by 21% twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth to $12.6 billion, portion full remaining show obligations person soared much than 23% to $27.7 billion. (For perspective, ServiceNow turned $13.2 cardinal successful gross into $4.1 cardinal worthy of nett income for the entirety of 2025. Yes, this institution is besides profitable.)
What gives?
As was noted, this banal was mostly successful the incorrect concern astatine the incorrect time. Investors began panicking astir valuations and the deficiency of profitability for astir artificial quality bundle stocks similar SoundHound and Palantir successful the second fractional of past year, erstwhile superior questions astir AI's usefulness and inferior besides started surfacing. ServiceNow was conscionable lumped successful with the remainder of the punished names.
Now instrumentality a measurement backmost and look astatine what the institution really brings to the table. Its archetypal imaginativeness arsenic a workflow automation level erstwhile it launched each the mode backmost successful 2004 was realized good earlier the existent AI gyration got underway. You could argue, successful fact, that ServiceNow's beingness is wherefore truthful galore akin offerings person materialized successful the meantime -- they're attempting to transcript the original's success. ServiceNow remains a apical enactment successful the arena it mostly helped define, however. IT consulting steadfast Gartner says arsenic much, standing the institution arsenic 1 of lone a fistful of leaders wrong the workplace acquisition exertion abstraction for 2026. ServiceNow's ongoing fiscal maturation confirms the same.
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