Vertiv<\/strong> (NYSE: VRT)<\/span> stock is surging Wednesday despite the company reporting weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter results. The digital infrastructure company’s share price was up 22.4% as of 2:30 p.m. ET and had been up as much as 25.2% earlier in trading.<\/p>\n Vertiv published its Q4 results before the market opened this morning and reported sales and earnings for the period that came in below Wall Street’s targets. Despite softer-than-anticipated results for the last quarter, the company issued strong forward guidance.<\/p>\n Where to invest $1,000 right now?<\/strong> Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks<\/strong> to buy right now, when you join Stock Advisor.\u00a0See the stocks \u00bb<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n The average Wall Street analyst estimate had called for Vertiv to post earnings of $1.16 per share on sales of $2.89 billion in the fourth quarter. Meanwhile, the business delivered a per-share profit of $1.14 on revenue of $2.88 billion. Revenue was still up roughly 23% year over year, and adjusted earnings per share tripled compared to the prior-year period. Results were still quite strong despite missing the average Wall Street forecasts, and the company’s forward guidance has investors feeling very bullish.<\/p>\n For the current quarter, Vertiv is targeting sales between $2.5 billion and $2.7 billion — with the midpoint of that guidance range coming in ahead of the average analyst estimate’s call for sales of $2.56 billion. Meanwhile, adjusted earnings per share are projected to be between $0.95 and $1.01 — a range that looks substantially more bullish than the average analyst estimate’s call for a per-share profit of $0.96. Vertiv is seeing strong sales and margin tailwinds connected to infrastructure demand for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, and these tailwinds look poised to continue powering performance this year.<\/p>\n Before you buy stock in Vertiv, consider this:<\/p>\n The Motley Fool Stock Advisor<\/em> analyst team just identified what they believe are the\u00a010 best stocks<\/strong> for investors to buy now\u2026 and Vertiv wasn\u2019t one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.<\/p>\n Consider when Netflix<\/strong> made this list on December 17, 2004… if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation,\u00a0you\u2019d have $443,353<\/strong>!* Or when Nvidia<\/strong> made this list on April 15, 2005… if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you\u2019d have $1,155,789<\/strong>!*<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Now, it\u2019s worth noting\u00a0Stock Advisor\u2019s<\/em> total average return is 920% \u2014 a market-crushing outperformance compared to 196% for the S&P 500.\u00a0Don’t miss the latest top 10 list, available with\u00a0Stock Advisor<\/em>, and join an investing community built by individual investors for individual investors.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n See the 10 stocks \u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n *Stock Advisor returns as of February 11, 2026. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>