Summary
So far this year, the mega-cap index gains have been muted, as the trillion-dollar club just isn't participating. Looking at the most-popular indices, the NYSE leads with a 6% jump; followed by the Dow Industrials (+5%); the Nasdaq 100 and the S&P 500 (both up a bit more than 3%); the S&P 100 (+2.5%); the S&P MidCap 400 (+2.3%); the Nasdaq (+1.7%); and the S&P SmallCap 600 (+1.6%). According to www.stockcharts.com, there are nine companies with trillion-dollar market-caps. By size, they are AAPL, NVDA, MSFT, AMZN, GOOGL, META, AVGO, TSLA, BRK.B. So we now have the Magnificent 9, with four names from Information Technology, two from Consumer Discretionary and Communication Services, and one from Financial. Year to date, AAPL is off 7%, NVDA is down 1%, MSFT is down 2.4%, AMZN is up 6%, GOOGL is down 2%, META has soared 23%, AVGO is up 1%, TSLA is down 19%, and BRK.B has gained 4.3%. Five of the largest S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 market caps are down in 2025. So where has the real action been this year in the S&P 500 and the QQQ? PLTR has exploded 49%; CEG has soared 40%; UBER has jumped 28%; SMCI is up 27%; CRWD 26%; GE and TPR 25%; CVS 24%; TPL, PM, META, and FFIV 23%; NEM,
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