Buy Hold Sell: You tipped them, we tested them (plus 2 big buys from the experts)

Welcome back to a new year of Buy Hold Sell. At the end of last year, we asked you, our Livewire readers, to tell us what your most-tipped growth stock will be for 2026. It was our 10th year running the survey, with nearly 5,000 responses, and we crunched the numbers to see which names emerged as clear favourites. So for our first episode of the year, we asked our guests, Anna Milne from Wilson Asset Management and Blake Henricks of Firetrail Investments, to run the ruler over five of your most popular stocks from the results. What we gathered from your votes is just how polarising growth stocks can be, and this was reflected in this episode, where we had almost no agreement from our guests. Markets are already upside down only a month into the new year, and whilst this episode might not give a clear-cut consensus on any name, it captures the mood of the market, where conditions are shifting quickly, certainty is scarce and convictions are increasingly divergent. We also asked our guests to bring the stocks they think should have made the list and you should most certainly add to your watchlist. Please note this episode was filmed Wednesday 28th January 2026.