Anxieties about Big Tech earnings this week combined with worries about slowing global growth and a more hawkish Federal Reserve to send the tech-heavy Nasdaq down more than 2% on Tuesday.
For the current year, market-moving development stocks have taken a beating as financial backers worry about the impact of higher loan fees on their future income.
Meanwhile, a surprisingly good profit season has been overshadowed by China’s lockdown and the hawkish turn by significant national banks.
The S&P 500’s eleven most important sectors all had losses, but SPLRCD plummeted over 2%, leading the sector losses.
On Tuesday, following the closing bell, shares of Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL.O and Microsoft Corp.’s MSFT.O dropped 2.7% and 2.2%, respectively. This week, 133 companies out of the S&P 500 are expected to release financial results.
Wall Street Expect The Internet To Generate Faster Revenue
Internet giant’s stock is trading at a discount, but analysts predict it will outperform the market this year in terms of sales growth.
Investors afraid that major IT firms are losing their growth trend may find some solace in the predicted 18% increase in sales.
The projected growth rates for Apple and Amazon are 8.3% and 14.6%, respectively, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Stock brokers expect overall growth of 10.4% for the companies that make up the S&P 500 Index.
After Tuesday’s market close, Alphabet will publish its first-quarter earnings and release its first index.
In the first quarter of this year, analysts forecast 24% growth in revenue and a 20% rise in earnings per share.
Conclusion
Both Alphabet and Meta had significant drops in market capitalization as a result of the recent stock price declines.
Alphabet’s was dropped by over $40 billion, while Meta’s was cut by over $25 billion. Snap’s share price decline wiped almost $7 billion in market value.
After-hours trading in other growth firms like Spotify Technology, Shopify, and Roblox all saw declines of approximately 3% due to Snap’s disappointing report.
Many investors see Twitter’s stock as a bet on the outcome of the future legal battle between the company and Elon Musk on Musk’s April commitment to buy Twitter for $44 billion rather than as a reflection of the firm’s existing fundamentals.
