#stock-performance

#stock-performance

In 2018, tech giant Apple became the first U.S. company to reach a market capitalization of $1 trillion. Since then, it's been joined by other companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta Platforms, and Tesla. Of course, the list also includes the current market-cap leader, Nvidia. It's becoming increasingly normal for a new company to join the $1 trillion club. But it remains an impressive feat nevertheless. At this pace, these tech titans could be joined by brick-and-mortar giant Walmart in 2026.

Alphabet stock has made a roaring comeback in 2025. Stock for the artificial intelligence ( AI) giant and owner of Google, YouTube, Google Cloud, and Gemini is trading up 31% year to date, which is actually beating the performance of Microsoft and just slightly underperforming Nvidia. Investors are cheering on Alphabet as it keeps putting out new AI innovations that are going viral, helping it catch up to the likes of OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Fortinet (FTNT) stock achieved its fifth consecutive day of gains, resulting in a total increase of 6.9% during this timeframe. Over the past 5 days, the company has seen an increase in value of approximately $4.5 Bil, with its current market cap reaching about $65 Bil. The stock is still 9.7% lower than its value at the close of 2024. By comparison, year-to-date returns for the S&P 500 stand at 13.2%.

So far this year, the stock is up more than 143%, and since its October 2022 IPO, PLTR has surged an eye-catching 1,890%. In September, it was reported that the company agreed to a £1.5 billion defense deal with the U.K. That comes not he back of an announcement in early August that the U.S. Army is consolidating 75 contracts into a single 10-year arrangement with Palantir valued at $10 billion.

Shares of PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) lost 3.41% over the past month after plummeting 11.12% the month prior. That brings the payment processor's year-to-date loss to 21.65%. However, the stock is up 17.59% since its 52-week low on April 8. When PayPal reported Q2 earnings on July 29, it beat on both top and bottom lines. EPS was $1.40 versus an expected $1.30, and revenue was $8.29 billion versus an expected $8.08 billion.

Among the biggest mistakes Iger made late in his first time as a CEO was the launch of Disney's streaming product Disney+. The service kicked off in November 2019. It had about 500 movies from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic. It was too small and had too little content to compete with industry leaders Amazon and Netflix. In February, Forbes put the operating loss of Disney+, the proxy for which is Disney's Direct To Consumer (DTC) segment, at $10.7 billion since the service started.