The most-mentioned stocks on finance X and Reddit: July 2026
By Maya Koeva · August 3, 2026
Across July 2026, Quantral tracked 12,204 stock mentions from 3,857 distinct authors across the finance X and Reddit accounts we follow: roughly 6,100 mentions from about 90 curated finance X accounts and another 6,100 from more than 3,700 Reddit authors, close to an even split by volume even though the X side comes from a far smaller set of accounts. Most of any month's chatter is noise. But the volume of discussion (who is talking, how much, and how positively) is itself a signal worth watching.
Here are the ten companies that drew the most discussion from those accounts in July 2026, with the sentiment split, the share of mentions coming from voices with a proven track record, and Quantral's 0-100 signal score for each.
| # | Company | Mentions | Trusted mentions | Score | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  NebiusNBIS | 843Bull 74% · Bear 13% | 37% | 85 | 16.9% |
| 2 |  MicronMU | 682Bull 55% · Bear 28% | 26% | 74 | 20.3% |
| 3 |  MetaMETA | 636Bull 37% · Bear 41% | 21% | 60 | 9.2% |
| 4 |  AlphabetGOOG | 460Bull 52% · Bear 25% | 21% | 87 | 0.3% |
| 5 |  NVIDIANVDA | 429Bull 57% · Bear 28% | 33% | 65 | 1.6% |
| 6 |  TeslaTSLA | 373Bull 25% · Bear 51% | 24% | 55 | 26.8% |
| 7 |  SanDiskSNDK | 370Bull 51% · Bear 35% | 30% | 68 | 40.2% |
| 8 |  MicrosoftMSFT | 326Bull 50% · Bear 29% | 15% | 70 | 20.9% |
| 9 |  Wendy'sWEN | 298Bull 52% · Bear 22% | 20% | 61 | 17.7% |
| 10 |  SpaceXSPCX | 293Bull 23% · Bear 55% | 28% | 34 | 31.2% |
Window: July 1 to 31, 2026. Bull and Bear under each mention count are the positive and negative share of the mentions that took a clear directional view; the rest are neutral. "Trusted mentions" is the share of a company's mentions posted by authors with a real track record. Score is the 7-day Quantral signal score as of July 31. Price is the close-to-close move from the July 1 close to the July 31 close.
What stood out in July
It was an AI-infrastructure and megacap-earnings month. Eight of the ten most-discussed names came from AI infrastructure or the big-tech names reporting in the back half of July. Nebius, the AI cloud provider, topped the entire list with 843 mentions and the most one-sided bull case in the table (74% positive). The memory and storage makers sat right behind it, Micron and SanDisk, alongside NVIDIA, while Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft and Tesla all drew heavy volume into their late-month earnings. Only Wendy's and SpaceX came from outside that world.
Attention did not mean gains. Only two of the ten names finished the month meaningfully higher, Microsoft (up 20.9%) and NVIDIA (up 1.6%). The other eight ended flat to sharply lower, including the single most-discussed stock on the list: Nebius drew 843 mentions and a 74% bullish split and still dropped 16.9%. SanDisk, heavily talked about and leaning positive, fell the hardest at 40.2%, while Tesla and SpaceX both dropped more than 26%. Being talked about, even bullishly, is not the same as going up.
A strong score is not a price forecast. The two highest scores in the table belonged to Alphabet (87) and Nebius (85), and they ended the month very differently: Alphabet finished essentially flat while Nebius fell 16.9%, even as its signal stayed strong. Microsoft scored 70 and rose 20.9%; SanDisk scored a respectable 68 and fell 40.2%. The score measures how strong and how credible the current conversation is, including the track record of the people driving it, not which way the price goes next.
How we count mentions
Quantral does not read the entire firehose. We track a curated set of accounts on finance X and Reddit, the voices worth listening to, in real time. For this ranking we counted every post from those tracked accounts that referenced a given company between July 1 and July 31, deduplicated reposts, and classified each mention as positive, negative, or neutral. The Quantral score is the same 0-100 signal score shown in the app: it weighs how strong and how credible the activity is (including the track record of the people doing the talking), not just the raw mention count.
How to read this
A high mention count tells you where attention is concentrated; it does not tell you which way a stock will move. A name can top the list on overwhelmingly negative sentiment. That is what the signal score is for. It does not count mentions equally: it weights each one by how credible the author has been, damps down the same person posting a name ten times, and reads which way the credible voices lean. That score is the single number the app shows for each stock. The mention count, the bull and bear split, and the trusted-mention share in the table above are the raw ingredients we broke out so you can see what is feeding it.
You can see the difference in two names that drew almost identical volume in July. SpaceX and Wendy's each pulled just under 300 mentions, 293 and 298, but underneath they looked nothing alike: SpaceX's conversation ran net-negative (55% bearish) while Wendy's leaned positive (52% bullish). Weight those mentions by how credible each voice has been and the scores come out far apart, 34 for SpaceX against 61 for Wendy's. Same raw attention, different signal. A low mention count on a name, by contrast, is just a coverage reading in the accounts we track, not silence with a verdict attached.
The takeaway
Discussion volume is a starting point for research, not a verdict. Use it to see where the conversation is happening this month, then dig into the why: the reasoning, the trends, and the voices behind each name, before you act.
Quantral surfaces signals and context from public sources to support your own research. Nothing here is financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell.