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Breadth

357 / 503

stocks rose with the index

Concentration

28%

of the gain from NVDA, MU, AAPL

Biggest driver

NVDA +97

NVIDIA CORP, +14.37%

Biggest drag

TSLA −25

TESLA INC, −22.12%

What drove it

503 members · drivers first · YTD · residual 101.5bp exceeds 60bp gate

The S&P 500 rose 12.15% (+832 pts) so far this year on a mixed tape; NVDA, MU, AAPL did most of the lifting, with 28% of the gain between them.

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

+1,065.2 pts from 330 gainers−235.6 pts from 173 losers

net +831.8 pts · gainers outweigh losers 4.5 to 1

Stock

Points

Return

S&P 500sum of all 503 stocks

+831.8

+12.15%

NVDANVIDIA CORP

+97.2

+14.37%

MUMICRON TECHNOLOGY INC

+74.7

+227.04%

AAPLAPPLE INC

+59.1

+14.21%

AMZNAMAZON.COM INC

+54.6

+13.10%

AMDADVANCED MICRO DEVICES

+49.8

+123.75%

MSFTMICROSOFT CORP

+47.4

+2.13%

INTCINTEL CORP

+22.0

+137.07%

GOOGLALPHABET INC CL A

+20.5

+10.99%

SNDKSANDISK CORP

+19.1

+523.80%

JNJJOHNSON + JOHNSON

+18.7

+33.45%

LRCXLAM RESEARCH CORP

+16.9

+84.16%

LLYELI LILLY + CO

+16.1

+15.18%

PANWPALO ALTO NETWORKS INC

+15.8

+84.53%

GOOGALPHABET INC CL C

+14.8

+9.56%

AMATAPPLIED MATERIALS INC

+14.7

+87.26%

473 othersclick to expand the full index

+411.8

NFLXNETFLIX INC

−3.5

−12.30%

ADBEADOBE INC

−3.6

−21.73%

QCOMQUALCOMM INC

−4.1

−5.16%

WFCWELLS FARGO + CO

−4.7

−8.05%

CRMSALESFORCE INC

−5.5

−21.94%

MNSTMONSTER BEVERAGE CORP

−6.1

−36.44%

ACNACCENTURE PLC CL A

−6.2

−29.30%

IBMINTL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP

−7.6

−19.90%

BSXBOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP

−8.2

−47.71%

INTUINTUIT INC

−8.2

−45.76%

ORCLORACLE CORP

−8.7

−24.87%

ISRGINTUITIVE SURGICAL INC

−9.1

−34.35%

APPAPPLOVIN CORP CLASS A

−9.2

−53.91%

METAMETA PLATFORMS INC CLASS A

−13.7

−13.49%

TSLATESLA INC

−25.0

−22.12%

Cap weighting, illustrated

AMAZON.COM INC and ALEXANDRIA REAL ESTATE EQUIT moved almost identically (+13.10% vs +11.33%), yet AMZN moved the S&P 500 4,155.8× 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 +832 pt move · cell size = points contributed · color = direction, intensity = return

NVDA+97.2 pts(+14.4%)

MU+74.7 pts(+227.0%)

383 more+65.6 pts

AAPL+59.1 pts(+14.2%)

AMZN+54.6 pts(+13.1%)

AMD+49.8 pts(+123.7%)

MSFT+47.4 pts(+2.1%)

TSLA−25.0 pts(−22.1%)

INTC+22.0 pts

GOOGL+20.5 pts

SNDK

JNJ+18.7 pts

LRCX+16.9 pts

LLY+16.1 pts

PANW+15.8 pts

GOOG

AMAT

STX+14.1 pts

CSCO+14.0 pts

MRK+13.3 pts

CVX

DELL

WDC+10.3 pts

KO+10.3 pts

ISRG

INTU

BSX

GEV

UNH

IBM

ABBV

MPC

TXN

VLO

MNST

FTNT

UNP

PSX

GILD

WFC

MRNA

NEM

ETN

FDX

Concentration curve

cumulative share of the +832 pt move · sorted by contribution

When they drove it

cumulative points through the period

Breadth

member returns, this period

−100%+100%+300%+500%

From −65.09% (TTD) to +523.80% (SNDK). Equal-weight, the S&P 500 would be +17.38% vs the actual +12.15%; the gap is what cap weighting did.

By sector

point contribution · sums to +832 pts

-503

+829.6

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