The NASDAQ-100 is widely followed as a measure mainly of the big tech and social media stocks that make up the index.

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S&P 500 companies, at large, saw a sequential dip in stock buybacks in the third quarter to $226.6B from $235.9B in the previous quarter. This figure was still a 22.1% jump over last year ...

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The gap between the S&P 500's earnings yield and the 10-year Treasury yield has slipped into negative territory and is at its widest point since 2002. Put differently, the relative attractiveness ...

That means trouble ahead for the largest stocks in the market — and by default, the cap-weighted S&P 500 ... year periods. Meanwhile, the average stock between the 30th and 70th percentiles ...

The top 20 S&P 500 companies accounted for 53.2% of Q3 2024 buybacks, a marginal rise from Q2 2024’s 52.3% and above the historical average of 47.6% and the pre-COVID historical average of 44.5%.

Artificial intelligence (AI) was a key reason behind the historic two-year run for the S&P 500 in 2023 and 2024 ... but the Roundhill ETF only holds 50. That means it's relatively concentrated ...

The S&P 500 ( ^GSPC) gained 0.5%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) rose nearly 0.4%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq ...

Thus, this chart could provide a stark warning that stock prices are being driven more by investor optimism than the underlying value of these stocks, exactly the kind of market condition that Buffett ...

The problem for markets is that Big Tech's earnings beats have been driving stocks higher over the past two years ... lines (the rest of S&P 500 estimates) in Krishna's chart below begin reversing ...

Most Wall Street analysts anticipate strong returns in 2025 Shown below are year-end targets for the S&P 500 in 2025 set by various Wall Street banks and research firms. The chart also shows the ...