Dubbed the Magnificent Seven stocks, Apple, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Amazon.com, Nvidia, Meta Platforms and Tesla lived up to their name in 2023 with big gains. And all of them boasted solid year-to-date gains in the final weeks of 2024.
Due to their outsized market capitalizations, Magnificent Seven stocks hold a disproportionate influence on the market-cap weighted Nasdaq composite and S&P 500 indexes.
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| Company Name | Symbol | 2024 YTD Performance |
|---|---|---|
| Alphabet | (GOOGL) | +37.4% |
| Amazon | (AMZN) | +50.7% |
| Apple | (AAPL) | +28.8% |
| Meta Platforms | (META) | +78.2% |
| Microsoft | (MSFT) | +19.6% |
| Nvidia | (NVDA) | +177.3% |
| Tesla | (TSLA) | +68.3% |
Nvidia stock declined 0.2% Thursday, snapping a four-day win streak. The stock is trying to move above its 50-day line, a key resistance level to watch. And Nvidia stock headed further south Friday, down 3%.
In recent weeks, Nvidia beat Wall Street’s targets for its fiscal third quarter, but its sales outlook for the current period was only slightly above views.
The artificial intelligence chipmaker earned an adjusted 81 cents a share on sales of $35.08 billion in the quarter ended Oct. 27. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected Nvidia earnings of 75 cents a share on sales of $33.17 billion. In the year-earlier period, Nvidia earned 40 cents a share on sales of $18.12 billion.
The tech titan is an IBD Leaderboard stock.
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Amazon.com (AMZN) reclaimed its 201.20 buy point during recent gains. And Amazon stock fell 2.2% Friday.
On Oct. 31, Amazon said that it earned an adjusted $1.43 per share on sales of $158.9 billion for the September-ended quarter. Analysts polled by FactSet projected the Seattle, Wash.-based company would post adjusted earnings of $1.14 per share on sales of $157.3 billion.
Through its Amazon Bedrock platform, the e-commerce and cloud giant provides a fully managed service offering a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta and Stability AI.
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Tesla (TSLA) skidded 4% Friday, extending Thursday’s losses. The EV giant set an all-time high last week, topping out at 488.53.
On Oct. 23, Tesla announced a surprise third-quarter earnings gain, with quarterly profit growing 9%, capping off a big month of announcements for the EV giant. Revenue came in light.
Besides recently added Nvidia stock, there are two other Dow Jones names among the Magnificent Seven: Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT).
Apple stock fell 1.2% Friday, still out of buy range above a flat base’s 237.49 buy point. The stock set fresh record highs Thursday.
On Oct. 31, the consumer electronics giant offered weak sales guidance for the December quarter. Analysts say the iPhone 16 upgrade cycle is taking longer to materialize due to the slow rollout of the company’s much-touted artificial intelligence features.
And the Cupertino, Calif.-based company beat Wall Street’s targets for its fiscal fourth quarter ended Sept. 28. It earned an adjusted $1.64 a share, up 12% year over year, on sales of $94.93 billion, up 6%.
Meanwhile, Microsoft topped Wall Street’s targets for the software giant’s fiscal first quarter on strong cloud computing business on Oct. 30. However, the company guided below views for sales in the current quarter.
The Redmond, Wash.-based company earned $3.30 a share on sales of $65.6 billion in the quarter ended Sept. 30. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected fiscal Q1 earnings of $3.10 a share on sales of $64.6 billion. On a year-over-year basis, Microsoft earnings increased 10% while sales rose 16%.
Shares moved down 2% in Friday’s trading. Microsoft stock is building a cup with handle that has a 456.16 buy point.
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