AI stocks in S&P 500 are outperforming in 2024, and not just ‘Magnificent Seven’

Nvidia Corp.
NVDA,
-5.93%,
the closely watched chip maker that has benefited massively from investor enthusiasm around AI, will report its fourth-quarter earnings results after the U.S. stock market’s close on Wednesday.  The company’s gigantic market value of around $1.8 trillion places it among the top weights in the S&P 500, whose gains last year were propelled by a group of seven megacap tech stocks.

“AI stocks continue to garner most of the investment world’s attention,” said Bespoke. The firm found that “year to date, the average S&P 500 AI stock is up 3.7% compared to a gain of 1.1% for the non-AI stocks.”

Shares of Nvidia were falling around 6% on Tuesday afternoon — but even with that drop, the stock has surged more than 37% this year, according to FactSet data, at last check. 

The S&P 500 ‘s technology sector
XX:SP500.45,
which includes Nvidia, is up more than 5% so far in 2024 as of Tuesday afternoon’s trading.

Meanwhile, shares of the Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF
MAGS
—whose megacap holdings include Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
-0.91%,
Apple Inc.
AAPL,
-0.87%,
Nvidia, Amazon.com Inc.
AMZN,
-1.91%,
Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc.
META,
-0.99%,
Google parent Alphabet Inc.
GOOGL,
+0.44%

GOOG,
+0.44%
and Tesla Inc.
TSLA,
-4.41%
— have climbed almost 8% this year to date, according to FactSet data, at last check.

The S&P 500 has lagged over the same period and is up around 4% in 2024.

Five of the “Magnificent Seven” stocks have risen this year, with gains led by Nvidia. Only Apple and Tesla are in the red so far in 2024.

“Some of the most widely followed large-cap AI stocks” beyond the Magnificent Seven include companies such as Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
AMD,
-5.53%,
ServiceNow Inc.
NOW,
-2.35%,
Broadcom Inc.
AVGO,
-1.82%,
Intuitive Surgical Inc.
ISRG,
-0.75%,
Salesforce Inc.
CRM,
-1.32%
and Intel Corp.
INTC,
+1.05%,
according to the Bespoke note. While Intel is down this year, the rest of those six have posted gains exceeding the S&P 500’s so far in 2024.

But on Friday, the 67 AI-related stocks in the S&P 500 tracked by Bespoke “took a breather” and fell by an average of 1.3%, while the “non-AI stocks” slipped just 0.3%, the firm’s note shows. 

U.S. stocks were declining Tuesday, after the three-day weekend honoring Presidents Day on Monday. The S&P 500
SPX
was down 0.8% in afternoon trading Tuesday, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA
shed 0.2% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite
COMP
dropped 1.3%, according to FactSet data, at last check. 

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