2 Growth Stocks I Plan to Buy if the Stock Market Crashes Anthony Di Pizio, The Motley Fool Fri, September 18, 2026 at 7:20 AM PDT 5 min read ^GSPC NVDA CL=F At the close of trading on Tuesday, Sept. 15, the benchmark S&P 500 stock market index had a Shiller Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-Earnings (CAPE) ratio of 40.3, its second-highest valuation since the peak of the dot-com internet bubble in 2000. Meanwhile, risks are quickly mounting. Oil prices are currently soaring due to the ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, placing upward pressure on inflation and global interest rates. Moreover, start-ups like Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI are calling for a slowdown in the pace of artificial intelligence (AI) development, which could derail high-growth sectors like semiconductors. To top things off, the midterm congressional elections are coming up in November, which could be another source of market volatility. Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue With all that said, the S&P 500 has trended higher over the long term, so I'll be looking for buying opportunities if the aforementioned headwinds cause a crash. Here are two stocks I'd like to scoop up at a discount. Image source: Getty Images. The first stock I plan to buy: DigitalOcean DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) provides cloud services , but unlike its much larger competitors, such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, it primarily targets small and mid-sized (SMB) enterprise customers. It offers them clear, transparent pricing, highly personalized support, and a simple platform that makes deployment easy, even for enterprises without in-house technical teams. The company is now applying that blueprint to its growing portfolio of AI products and services. It offers these through a new platform called AI-Native Cloud, which features five distinct layers to help enterprises deploy AI software. The infrastructure layer sits at the foundation: DigitalOcean now operates 20 data centers equipped with specialized chips from suppliers like Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices , and it leases the computing capacity to its customers. Another key layer is the inference engine, where customers can tap into foundation models from developers, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, in addition to over 70 open-source models. Using these models and the computing capacity from the infrastructure layer, enterprises can rapidly build and deploy AI agents, chatbots, and other applications. DigitalOcean had $1.1 billion in annual recurring revenue (ARR) as of June 30. AI customers accounted for $234 million of that total, a staggering 212% increase from the same time last year. The company's order backlog from customers who are waiting for more data centers to come online was also $894 million as of June 30, a 12-fold increase from the year-ago period. That suggests even faster AI revenue growth might be on the horizon. Story Continues Its...
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