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Magnificent Seven

7 stocks · cap-weighted, ETF-derived weights · Aug 25, 2026 close
67.63
+43.16 (+176.43%)
MAGS 67.63 · +43.2 pts (+176.43%) 5Y
83.1567.3351.5235.70EW +214.58%H 70.33 · May 27L 24.29 · Apr 25
Apr 11, 2023Feb 13, 2024Dec 17, 2024Oct 20, 2025Aug 25, 2026
Breadth
7 / 7
stocks rose with the index
Concentration
56%
of the gain from NVDA, AMZN, GOOGL
Biggest driver
NVDA +9.43
NVIDIA Corporation, +685.75%
Biggest drag
none
all 7 members advanced

What drove it

7 members · drivers first · 5Y · residual 2031.5bp exceeds 60bp gate

The MAGS rose 176.43% (+43.16 pts) over five years in a broad advance: 7 of 7 stocks rose, with NVDA out front at +9.43 points.

Read the latest market-close note: Nvidia and Goldman Sachs Lead a Narrow Advance as Energy and Staples Slide

+43.8 pts from 7 gainers0.0 pts from 0 losers
net +43.2 pts · gainers outweigh losers 437.8 to 1
Stock
Points
Return
MAGSsum of all 7 stocks
+43.2
100%
+176.43%
NVDANVIDIA Corporation
+9.4
22%
+685.75%
AMZNAmazon.com, Inc.
+7.6
18%
+161.27%
GOOGLAlphabet Inc.
+7.1
17%
+232.28%
MSFTMicrosoft Corporation
+6.8
16%
+78.35%
AAPLApple Inc.
+6.6
15%
+95.68%
TSLATesla, Inc.
+4.6
11%
+87.51%
METAMeta Platforms, Inc.
+1.7
4%
+168.87%
Cap weighting, illustrated

Amazon.com, Inc. and Meta Platforms, Inc. moved almost identically (+161.27% vs +168.87%), yet AMZN moved the MAGS 4.6× 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 +43.16 pt move · cell size = points contributed · color = direction, intensity = return
NVDA+9.4 pts(+685.8%)
AMZN+7.6 pts(+161.3%)
GOOGL+7.1 pts(+232.3%)
MSFT+6.8 pts(+78.3%)
AAPL+6.6 pts(+95.7%)
TSLA+4.6 pts(+87.5%)
META+1.7 pts

Concentration curve

cumulative share of the +43.16 pt move · sorted by contribution
0%50%100%2457stocks:3 stocks = 56%100% covered at 7

When they drove it

cumulative points through the period
0NVDA +9.43AMZN +7.65GOOGL +7.14Apr 11Aug 25

Breadth

member returns, this period
0%+200%+400%+600%
From +78.35% (MSFT) to +685.75% (NVDA). Equal-weight, the MAGS would be +214.58% vs the actual +176.43%; the gap is what cap weighting did.

By sector

point contribution · sums to +43.16 pts
Unknown7
+43.8

The year, session by session

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