My 5 Top Stocks to Buy Right Now in This Highly Volatile Market

Keith Speights, The Motley Fool

Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 1:48 AM 5 min read

Getting dizzy from the stock market's gyrations? Join the club. The major market indexes are behaving like a frantic yo-yo, swinging up or down depending on the latest tariff- or Fed-related news from the White House.

Some investors might be tempted to throw in the towel on stocks altogether until things settle down. However, I don't think such an approach is necessary. You can still find attractive stocks despite all of the turbulence. Here are my five top stocks to buy right now in this highly volatile market.

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Many stocks have been losers in 2025 amid the market chaos, but not Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B). Shares of Warren Buffett's conglomerate have soared year to date.

I like the diversification that Berkshire offers with its 60-plus subsidiaries and 40-plus equity holdings. I like the investment discipline of Buffett and his team. And I love that Buffett has built a massive cash stockpile for Berkshire, the biggest in the company's history, that he can put to good use if stock valuations become even more appealing.

Utility stocks tend to be good picks when uncertainty reigns. They typically enjoy stable cash flows and are protected from competition. While there are plenty of great utility stocks you could buy, I view Dominion Energy (NYSE: D) as the cream of the crop.

Two things especially stand out to me with Dominion. First, it's based in Virginia, home to the world's largest hub of data centers, with more being built. These data centers use lots of electricity, which bodes well for the demand for Dominion's services. Second, the company pays a juicy dividend that yields 5%.

Dominion projects annual earnings-per-share growth of between 5% and 7%. That kind of growth, combined with a solid dividend, could enable the stock to deliver double-digit percentage total returns with lower risk than many stocks.

Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD) isn't completely immune to the market's gyrations. However, this midstream energy leader is more resilient than most stocks. Even during the worst crises for the oil and gas industry over the past two decades, Enterprise was able to deliver solid cash flow per unit.

I predict that Enterprise Products Partners will benefit from increased demand for the natural gas and natural gas liquids that flow through its pipelines, thanks to a significant artificial intelligence (AI) tailwind. Natural gas fuels many of the facilities that provide electricity used in the data centers that host AI applications. I also think that Enterprise's ultrahigh forward distribution yield of 6.84% will help boost its total returns.