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WHAT MOVED THE MARKET TODAY

Magnificent Seven

7 stocks · cap-weighted, ETF-derived weights · Oct 9, 2026 close
73.73
+2.04 (+2.85%)
MAGS 73.73 · +2.0 pts (+2.85%) QTD
74.0773.3772.6771.9771.27EW +2.91%H 73.90 · Oct 6L 71.44 · Oct 1
Sep 30Oct 2Oct 6Oct 7Oct 9
Breadth
6 / 7
stocks rose with the index
Concentration
99%
of the gain from AMZN, TSLA, MSFT
Biggest driver
AMZN +0.86
Amazon.com, Inc., +5.33%
Biggest drag
META −0.57
Meta Platforms, Inc., −0.90%

What drove it

7 members · drivers first · QTD · residual 5.7bp within 60bp gate

The MAGS rose 2.85% (+2.04 pts) so far this quarter, and 99% of that gain came from just three stocks: AMZN, TSLA, MSFT.

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

+2.6 pts from 5 gainers−0.6 pts from 2 losers
net +2.0 pts · gainers outweigh losers 4.4 to 1
Stock
Points
Return
MAGSsum of all 7 stocks
+2.0
100%
+2.85%
AMZNAmazon.com, Inc.
+0.9
42%
+5.33%
TSLATesla, Inc.
+0.7
33%
+7.86%
MSFTMicrosoft Corporation
+0.5
24%
+4.32%
GOOGLAlphabet Inc.
+0.4
18%
+2.20%
AAPLApple Inc.
+0.3
13%
+1.09%
NVDANVIDIA Corporation
−0.0
−2%
+0.39%
METAMeta Platforms, Inc.
−0.6
−28%
−0.90%

Attribution map

slicing the +2.04 pt move · cell size = points contributed · color = direction, intensity = return
AMZN+0.9 pts(+5.3%)
TSLA+0.7 pts(+7.9%)
META−0.6 pts(−0.9%)
MSFT+0.5 pts(+4.3%)
GOOGL+0.4 pts(+2.2%)
AAPL+0.3 pts(+1.1%)
NVDA

Concentration curve

cumulative share of the +2.04 pt move · sorted by contribution
0%50%100%2457stocks:3 stocks = 99%100% covered at 4

When they drove it

cumulative points through the period
0AMZN +0.86TSLA +0.66MSFT +0.48META −0.57NVDA −0.04Sep 30Oct 9

Breadth

member returns, this period
−1%+1%+3%+5%+7%
From −0.90% (META) to +7.86% (TSLA). Equal-weight, the MAGS would be +2.91% vs the actual +2.85%; the gap is what cap weighting did.

By sector

point contribution · sums to +2.04 pts
Unknown7
+2.0

The year, session by session

every trading day of 2026 · hover for the move
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