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Magnificent Seven

7 stocks · cap-weighted, ETF-derived weights · Oct 9, 2026 close
73.73
+49.26 (+201.36%)
MAGS 73.73 · +49.3 pts (+201.36%) 5Y
88.3471.1453.9436.74EW +243.39%H 73.90 · Oct 6L 24.29 · Apr 25
Apr 11, 2023Feb 26, 2024Jan 13, 2025Nov 21, 2025Oct 9, 2026
Breadth
7 / 7
stocks rose with the index
Concentration
61%
of the gain from TSLA, NVDA, GOOGL
Biggest driver
TSLA +10.62
Tesla, Inc., +104.88%
Biggest drag
none
all 7 members advanced

What drove it

7 members · drivers first · 5Y · residual 1924.8bp exceeds 60bp gate

The MAGS rose 201.36% (+49.26 pts) over five years, and 61% of that gain came from just three stocks: TSLA, NVDA, GOOGL.

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

+50.5 pts from 7 gainers−0.0 pts from 0 losers
net +49.3 pts · gainers outweigh losers 505.4 to 1
Stock
Points
Return
MAGSsum of all 7 stocks
+49.3
100%
+201.36%
TSLATesla, Inc.
+10.6
22%
+104.88%
NVDANVIDIA Corporation
+10.5
21%
+745.61%
GOOGLAlphabet Inc.
+8.9
18%
+236.78%
AAPLApple Inc.
+8.1
16%
+112.56%
AMZNAmazon.com, Inc.
+6.6
13%
+162.64%
MSFTMicrosoft Corporation
+4.4
9%
+94.07%
METAMeta Platforms, Inc.
+1.5
3%
+238.97%
Cap weighting, illustrated

Alphabet Inc. and Meta Platforms, Inc. moved almost identically (+236.78% vs +238.97%), yet GOOGL moved the MAGS 6.1× as much. In a cap-weighted index, the bigger company's weight turns the same percentage move into far more points.

Attribution map

slicing the +49.26 pt move · cell size = points contributed · color = direction, intensity = return
TSLA+10.6 pts(+104.9%)
NVDA+10.5 pts(+745.6%)
GOOGL+8.9 pts(+236.8%)
AAPL+8.1 pts(+112.6%)
AMZN+6.6 pts(+162.6%)
MSFT+4.4 pts(+94.1%)
META

Concentration curve

cumulative share of the +49.26 pt move · sorted by contribution
0%50%100%2457stocks:3 stocks = 61%100% covered at 7

When they drove it

cumulative points through the period
0TSLA +10.62NVDA +10.53GOOGL +8.85Apr 11Oct 9

Breadth

member returns, this period
0%+200%+400%+600%
From +94.07% (MSFT) to +745.61% (NVDA). Equal-weight, the MAGS would be +243.39% vs the actual +201.36%; the gap is what cap weighting did.

By sector

point contribution · sums to +49.26 pts
Unknown7
+50.5

The year, session by session

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