The SMH is down 0.31% (−1.73 pts) so far today, and more than all of that decline came from just three stocks: NVDA, AVGO, INTC.
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class="svelte-mfd49r">8 and class="svelte-mfd49r">23 moved almost identically (+0.54% vs +0.50%), yet ADI moved the SMH 5.8× as much. In a cap-weighted index, the bigger company's weight turns the same percentage move into far more points.
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