It may sound surprising, but investing in growth stocks is one of the best ways you can build your wealth to better prepare for retirement.
By parking your money in promising companies and holding them over the long term, you can enjoy steady capital appreciation and see your nest egg grow larger.
It’s important to select the right companies to own, though.
Such businesses should have attractive attributes such as a robust business model, tailwinds that can help the business to grow, and a track record of strong financial performance.
Here are four US growth stocks that fulfil these criteria that you can add to your buy watchlist.
Cloudflare (NYSE: NET)
Cloudflare is a cloud services provider that provides enhanced security to its customers while improving the performance of their applications.
The company also excels in eliminating the cost and complexity of managing individual network hardware components.
The business reported a commendable set of financial results for the first quarter of 2025 (1Q 2025).
Revenue rose 26.5% year on year to US$479.1 million while gross profit climbed 23.8% year on year to US$363.5 million.
The business generated free cash flow of US$52.9 million, 48.5% higher than a year ago.
Cloudflare also reported that customers are spending more.
Large customers, those with annualised revenue of >US$100,000, increased by 22.6% year on year to 3,527.
Management believes that its competitive advantages include network scale, ease of use, and shared intelligence.
Cloudflare’s total addressable market (TAM) stood at US$181 billion in 2025 and is projected to rise to US$231 billion by 2028, offering the company sufficient growth opportunities to increase its top line and free cash flow.
Recently, Cloudflare expanded its partnership with TD SYNNEX (NYSE: SNX) to deliver managed security services in Latin America.
MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB)
MongoDB operates a unified data platform that helps organisations to manage, store, and retrieve data easily.
The company also provides operational search, real-time analytics, and AI-powered retrieval to help companies simplify complex architecture.
MongoDB reported healthy growth in revenue and gross profit for the first quarter of fiscal 2026 (1Q FY2026) ending 30 April 2025.
Revenue rose nearly 22% year on year to US$549 million while gross profit improved by 19.2% year on year to US$391 million.
Crucially, the business generated 72% more free cash flow for 1Q FY2026 than the previous corresponding period, at US$108.3 million.
The company also added 2,600 new customers during the quarter, taking its total customer count to 57,100 at the end of 30 April this year.
MongoDB has expanded its share repurchase programme by authorising an additional US$800 million share buyback.
Coupled with its original US$200 million share buyback mandate, this move takes the total authorised buyback to US$1 billion.
Back in February, the database company acquired Voyager AI, a company that has state-of-the-art embedding and reranking models to help power AI applications.
Hubspot (NYSE: HUBS)
Hubspot operates a cloud computing platform that helps businesses to connect and thrive.
Its services include AI-powered engagement hubs, a smart customer relationship manager (CRM), and a connected ecosystem with 1,700 marketplace integrations.
The company reported an encouraging set of results for 1Q 2025 as revenue increased 15.7% year on year to US$714.1 million.
Gross profit improved by 14.7% year on year to US$599 million.
Free cash flow generation stood at US$117.8 million, an improvement of 18.3% year on year.
Hubspot grew its customer base to 258,258 as of 31 March 2025, up 19% year on year.
Calculated billings were US$766.8 million for 1Q 2025, up 20% year on year.
Management has estimated its TAM at US$76 billion in 2024, and envisions that this TAM will grow to US$128 billion by 2029.
Earlier this month, Hubspot launched its first CRM deep research connector with ChatGPT.
With this functionality, customers can apply powerful research and analysis to their customer data and context to gain unique business insights.
These practical insights will help the organisation by providing AI-driven analytics and increasing the attractiveness of Hubspot.
Dutch Bros (NYSE: BROS)
Dutch Bros is a franchisor and operator of drive-thru outlets that serve quality, hand-crafted beverages.
The company operates 1,012 locations across 18 states as of 31 March 2025.
Dutch Bros reported a stellar set of results for 1Q 2025, with revenue jumping 29% year on year to US$355.2 million.
Operating profit improved by 21.5% year on year to US$31.1 million while net profit more than doubled year on year to US$15.4 million.
During the quarter, the company opened 30 new shops across 11 states.
Same-store sales and transactions increased by 4.7% and 1.3%, respectively, showcasing the continued growth of the business.
For 2025, management plans to open at least 160 new stores and anticipates the same shop sales growth of between 2% to 4%.
Dutch Bros also held its inaugural Investor Day and communicated its long-term targets.
The business targets annual revenue growth of around 20%, supported by new shop growth and positive same-store sales growth.
It also set a new development goal with TAM increased for system shop openings to more than 7,000.
Management’s goal is to have 2,029 system shops by 2029.
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Disclosure: Royston Yang does not own shares in any of the companies mentioned.
