I think Monero is right now the best privacy coins out there, but many altcoins which are focused on privacy could be better that XMR in the next future. One very interesting altcoin I highly suggest you to look into it is DeepOnion (ONION), It is a PoW/PoS based cryptocurrency founded last July with a dev team really active, many improvements have been done.
Monero already has very good features to ensure privacy. In my opinion, Zcash's approach is still superior.
But both still have some problems with speed and scalability. Here is the chance for new coins with the same privacy features.