By Rick Orford
Publication Date: 2026-06-10 20:58:00
Quantum computing just got its “Uncle Sam” moment.
The U.S. government is investing more than $2 billion into quantum initiatives, and that changes the conversation. This is no longer just a futuristic science project buried inside research labs. It’s becoming a national technology race, a manufacturing race, and eventually, a commercialization race.
And that’s why it feels like we’ve reached a tipping point as investors ask: Is now the right time to buy quantum stocks? And if it is, then which one should you buy?
Today, I’ll attempt to answer those questions.
What is quantum computing?
We’re all aware of how artificial intelligence (AI) is running the market right now.
But this isn’t new. We’ve all seen this for other emerging tech that had the potential to change the landscape. There was personal computing in the 80s, the internet in the late 90s, and the smartphone and mobile internet boom back in the 2000s.
This scenario even played out when the first printing press was introduced. We’ll see it when the next exciting innovation comes around.
But a big part of being an investor is looking forward – and not to the next month or week or so, but to the next few decades. And that leads to the obvious question: what comes next after AI?
The easy answer is quantum computing.
Quantum computing, a branch of quantum technology, leverages the principles of quantum mechanics to perform certain computational tasks that are considered impossible or…