10 hottest ISA shares, funds and trusts: week ended 6 November 2026

We look at the investments ii customers have been buying within their ISAs during the previous week. The data includes only real-time trades, not regular investing instructions, and combines the use of both existing funds and new money.

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Top 10 shares in ISAs

Lloyds Banking Group (LSE:LLOY) has kept its place at the top of this list of most-bought stocks in ISAs on the ii platform. There’s clearly investor interest at levels around 20% lower than the August peak, with analysts still broadly positive about the UK retail bank sector over the longer term.

It is perhaps hard to believe, but NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) hasn’t appeared here since August. It’s the highest new entry at number two this time, up from 12 a week ago, and hasn’t been this high since February 2025.

BP (LSE:BP.) last featured here in September, a month before it reached a record high at 638p. A 12% drop in the share price in November has got dip buyers interested in the oil major, which is up from 13th the week before to fifth spot now. Oil prices have pulled back from over $117 a few weeks ago to around $97 currently, on indications that the US will not launch further military attacks on Iran. 

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BAE Systems (LSE:BA.) was one of last week’s worst performers on the FTSE 100, down almost 11%. A Democrat sweep in the US midterm elections raised doubts about defence budgets. America is BAE’s biggest customer, generating almost half of all revenue.

Micron Technology Inc (NASDAQ:MU) last appeared here a month ago but hasn’t featured in the top 10 much in the past few years. The semiconductor memory and storage firm was caught up in the post-election tech crash, losing 26% of its value in the first four days last week. However, it did claw back 5% in Friday’s bounce.

Analysts at Morgan Stanley acknowledge that fear of financial contagion is significant, and that those threats may continue to weigh on stocks in their tech coverage. But the broker said it wants to be “more optimistic at the low end of the range”.

In a note issued Monday it said: “Calling an absolute bottom is difficult, and we aren't trying to do that today - but we do think that the risk/reward is significantly improving across our coverage as the sell-off seems overdone.”

“We like to see most of valuation to be based on the current cycle, rather than paying a multiple on frothy numbers - we think that as stocks come down we are at that view. We like both SanDisk Corp Ordinary Shares (NASDAQ:SNDK) and Micron roughly equally at current levels.”

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The four stocks making way for this week’s newbies are HSBC, GSK, Haleon and Barclays.

Top 10 funds and trusts in ISAs

The Polar Capital Technology Ord (LSE:PCT) investment trust has continued to win over investors, moving up into second place in an otherwise consistent week for our fund bestseller list.

The trust, which moved into third place last week, is in the eye of the storm for however long tech stocks in the US and Asia continue to sell off, and shareholders are down by around 25% over the last month. Investors may well be seeking to buy on weakness.

They are admittedly getting some similar exposures via other funds cropping up in the table, from the passive (and more US-focused) L&G Global Technology Index I Acc (B0CNH16) to Scottish Mortgage Ord (LSE:SMT) and the broad tracker funds Vanguard FTSE Global All Cp Idx £ Acc (BD3RZ58) and HSBC FTSE All-World Index C Acc (BMJJJF9).

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This week’s mix, which sees little major movement in terms of names, also includes high-yielding trusts in the form of Henderson Far East Income Ord (LSE:HFEL) and Greencoat UK Wind (LSE:UKW). There’s also the value-minded Artemis Global Income I Acc (B5ZX1M7) and one name from Vanguard’s LifeStrategy franchise.

Funds and trusts section written by Dave Baxter, senior fund content specialist at ii.