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WHAT MOVED THE MARKET TODAY

Magnificent Seven

7 stocks · cap-weighted, ETF-derived weights · Oct 9, 2026 close
73.73
+8.54 (+13.10%)
MAGS 73.73 · +8.5 pts (+13.10%) 1Y
78.4872.3366.1860.0353.88EW +17.94%H 73.90 · Oct 6L 55.39 · Mar 30
Oct 8, 2025Jan 8, 2026Apr 10, 2026Jul 13, 2026Oct 9, 2026
Breadth
6 / 7
stocks rose with the index
Concentration
100%+
of the gain from GOOGL, AAPL, TSLA
Biggest driver
GOOGL +3.98
Alphabet Inc., +44.04%
Biggest drag
META −4.19
Meta Platforms, Inc., +0.37%

What drove it

7 members · drivers first · 1Y · residual 124.1bp exceeds 60bp gate

The MAGS rose 13.10% (+8.54 pts) over the past year, and more than all of that gain came from just three stocks: GOOGL, AAPL, TSLA.

Read the latest market-close note: Goldman and Microsoft Push the Dow to a Large Gain While Telecoms Sink Communication Services

+14.3 pts from 5 gainers−4.7 pts from 2 losers
net +8.5 pts · gainers outweigh losers 3.0 to 1
Stock
Points
Return
MAGSsum of all 7 stocks
+8.5
100%
+13.10%
GOOGLAlphabet Inc.
+4.0
47%
+44.04%
AAPLApple Inc.
+3.8
45%
+30.82%
TSLATesla, Inc.
+3.3
39%
−12.76%
NVDANVIDIA Corporation
+2.1
25%
+21.39%
AMZNAmazon.com, Inc.
+1.0
12%
+16.52%
MSFTMicrosoft Corporation
−0.5
−6%
+2.60%
METAMeta Platforms, Inc.
−4.2
−49%
+0.37%

Attribution map

slicing the +8.54 pt move · cell size = points contributed · color = direction, intensity = return
META−4.2 pts(+0.4%)
GOOGL+4.0 pts(+44.0%)
AAPL+3.8 pts(+30.8%)
TSLA+3.3 pts(−12.8%)
NVDA+2.1 pts(+21.4%)
AMZN+1.0 pts(+16.5%)
MSFT−0.5 pts(+2.6%)

Concentration curve

cumulative share of the +8.54 pt move · sorted by contribution
0%50%100%2457stocks:3 stocks = 131%100% covered at 3

When they drove it

cumulative points through the period
0GOOGL +3.98AAPL +3.84TSLA +3.33META −4.19MSFT −0.50Oct 8Oct 9

Breadth

member returns, this period
−20%0%+20%+40%
From −12.76% (TSLA) to +44.04% (GOOGL). Equal-weight, the MAGS would be +17.94% vs the actual +13.10%; the gap is what cap weighting did.

By sector

point contribution · sums to +8.54 pts
Unknown7
+9.6

The year, session by session

every trading day of 2026 · hover for the move
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