Benchmark Beaters is a weekly report tracking stocks making new highs relative to their benchmark. Each week we surface new leaders, repeat outperformers, and sustained streaks - objectively and consistently.

Benchmark Beaters Weekly

Every week, our Benchmark Beaters screener identifies the Canadian and US stocks that are outperforming their benchmarks. Each blog post highlights 2 Canadian and 2 US “new” stocks - with a 1-year price chart, a quick business description, and a brief investment insight.

Canadian Stocks (New This Week 🟢)

Bird Construction – BDT

Theme: Infrastructure Backlog Fuelling Sustained Momentum

Bird Construction is a Canadian general contractor with deep exposure to industrial, institutional, and infrastructure projects across the country. The stock is appearing on the Benchmark Beaters list on the back of a record project backlog, a string of analyst price target upgrades from firms including Canaccord and BMO Capital, and sustained contract award momentum that continues to build forward revenue visibility. With Canadian infrastructure spending broadly expanding and BDT demonstrating improving self-perform capabilities, the stock is benefiting from a rotation into domestic contractors with credible long-cycle earnings growth.

Savaria Corporation – SIS

Theme: Aging Demographics Meets Execution-Driven Rerating

Savaria designs, manufactures, and installs accessibility equipment - stairlifts, platform lifts, and home and commercial elevators - for physically challenged and aging individuals across North America and Europe. The company's April 2026 Investor Day was a clear catalyst, with management unveiling ambitious multi-year revenue growth targets and releasing preliminary Q1 results that showed meaningful EBITDA margin expansion ahead of expectations. Investors are rewarding the improved execution narrative and the credibility of the company's Savaria One operational program, with the demographic tailwind from an aging global population providing a durable long-term backdrop.

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US Stocks (New This Week 🟢)

Eaton Corporation – ETN

Theme: AI Power Infrastructure Play Gaining Conviction

Eaton is an intelligent power management company supplying electrical components, switchgear, and data center infrastructure to customers across industrial, utility, aerospace, and hyperscaler markets globally. The company's emergence on this week's list reflects its deepening positioning in AI infrastructure - anchored by the completed acquisition of Boyd Thermal's liquid cooling business and a strategic partnership with Flexnode to accelerate modular data center deployments - alongside broadly positive analyst sentiment and a recently raised dividend. With power demand from AI factories continuing to accelerate and ETN investing aggressively in domestic manufacturing capacity, the stock is outperforming as investors identify it as a core beneficiary of the grid-to-chip buildout.

KLA Corporation – KLAC

Theme: Semiconductor Process Control at All-Time Highs

KLA Corporation is the dominant provider of process control and yield management equipment for the global semiconductor industry, with its inspection and metrology tools embedded in virtually every advanced chip manufacturing line worldwide. The stock hit all-time highs this month, supported by a well-received March Investor Day where management introduced a new multi-year growth model, authorized a substantial new share repurchase program, and announced a meaningful dividend increase - the 17th consecutive annual increase. With AI-driven wafer fab equipment spending remaining robust and KLA's earnings consistently ahead of expectations, the stock is outperforming the S&P 500 as investors concentrate capital in the semiconductor names with the most defensible process control moats.

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