Have you ever wondered how to grow your investment portfolio to comfortably fund your retirement?
The answer is to park your money in well-run, high-quality companies that can demonstrate consistent growth.
Such promising growth stocks should see their share prices rise steadily over time, providing you with valuable capital appreciation and increasing the value of your nest egg.
Here are five growth stocks with solid market positions that are demonstrating healthy growth that you can add to your buy watchlist.
Veeva Systems (NYSE: VEEV)
Veeva runs a software-as-a-service cloud platform for the life sciences industry.
The company serves over 1,000 customers, ranging from large pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechnology firms.
For the first quarter of fiscal 2026 (1Q FY2026) ending 30 April 2025, Veeva saw revenue rise 16.7% year on year to US$759 million.
Operating profit surged 50.6% year on year to US$233.7 million while net profit climbed 41.2% year on year to US$228.2 million.
The business also churned out a positive free cash flow of US$871.2 million, 15% higher than a year ago.
For the quarter, Veeva achieved its revenue run rate goal of US$3 billion, showcasing growth across its Commercial and R&D Solutions.
Management believes the company is progressing well towards its 2030 goals to double revenue.
Last week, Veeva collaborated with Sarah Cannon Research Institute to drive speed and efficiency in oncology clinical trials, with the latter adopting Veeva’s platform to ensure seamless data flow across its clinical teams and research sites.
MarketAxess (NASDAQ: MKTX)
MarketAxess provides a leading electronic platform that allows more than 2,000 firms to efficiently trade fixed income securities.
The company’s platform provides a diversified pool of liquidity and generates cost savings for institutional investors and broker-dealers.
MarketAxess reported steady growth over the years, with revenue rising from US$718.3 million in 2022 to US$817.1 million by 2024.
Net profit went from US$250.2 million to US$274.2 million over the same period.
The business also generated healthy free cash flow over these three years.
For the first quarter of 2025 (1Q 2025), total revenue dipped by 1% year on year to US$208.6 million while operating profit slipped 4% year on year to US$88.4 million.
Net profit plunged 79% year on year to US$15.1 million because of a significantly higher tax expense.
Notwithstanding this, MarketAxess continued to generate free cash flow of US$12.7 million for the quarter, reversing the prior year’s negative free cash flow of US$20.1 million.
Operationally, the company reported record average daily volume (ADV), up 31% year on year.
It also achieved record emerging market and Eurobonds ADV with an 11% year-on-year increase.
The company paid out a quarterly dividend of US$0.76, up from the previous year’s US$0.74.
Domino’s Pizza (NASDAQ: DPZ)
Domino’s Pizza is one of the largest pizza chains in the world, with more than 21,300 stores located in over 90 countries.
The company reported an encouraging set of results for the first quarter of 2025 ending 23 March 2025.
Revenue inched up 2.5% year on year to US$1.11 billion, but operating profit dipped 0.2% year on year to US$210.1 million.
Net profit climbed almost 19% year on year to US$149.7 million.
Free cash flow for the quarter shot up 59.1% year on year to US$164.3 million.
A quarterly dividend of US$1.74 was declared and paid, higher than the US$1.51 per share paid out in the prior year.
Domino’s Pizza recorded negative same-store sales growth of 0.5% for its US stores but logged a +3.7% same-store sales increase for its international stores.
Back in April, Domino’s Pizza partnered with DoorDash (NASDAQ: DASH) to help fulfil orders on the latter’s platform while tapping into DoorDash’s customer base.
The US launch commenced in May 2025 and will be expanded to Canada later this year.
Asana (NYSE: ASAN)
Asana provides a work management platform that helps more than 170,000 customers align their corporate teams to achieve organisational goals.
The company uses artificial intelligence (AI) to improve its customers’ workflows and processes, which helps to improve efficiency and deliver results.
For 1Q FY2026, Asana reported an 8.6% year-on-year increase in revenue to US$187.3 million.
Gross profit improved by 8.7% year on year to US$168 million.
The business also churned out a positive free cash flow of US$4 million for the quarter, a turnaround from the negative free cash flow of US$4.3 million in the previous corresponding quarter.
Customers are also spending more on Asana’s platform, with those forking out US$100,000 or more (on an annualised basis) increasing by 20% year on year to 728.
Last month, Asana signed its largest subscription agreement in history with a US$100 million-plus renewal over three years.
The company also launched Smart Workflow Gallery, a suite of AI-powered workflows designed to help organisations utilise AI to generate greater employee productivity.
PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL)
PayPal is a payment processing company that helps to move money securely and efficiently and to make shopping simple, secure, and personalised.
For 1Q 2025, PayPal saw revenue inch up 1.2% year on year to US$7.8 billion.
Operating profit grew 31% year on year to US$1.5 billion while net profit leapt 45% year on year to US$1.3 billion.
The business generated a positive free cash flow of US$964 million for the quarter.
Operating metrics continued to improve, with total payment volume edging up 3% year on year to US$417.2 billion.
PayPal’s number of active accounts also increased 2% year on year to 436 million.
Venmo, one of the products under PayPal’s umbrella, recently introduced enhanced rewards in-store and more benefits to encourage more customers to use its service.
These rewards will apply to the Venmo Debit Card and Venmo Checkout.
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Disclosure: Royston Yang does not own shares in any of the companies mentioned.
