Monthly Stock Market Summary

Within this article you can find a monthly summary of what happened within the United States stock market. In particular, you can find 3 types of information:

  • Monthly performance and performance of the 5 winners and losers of the best stock indices in the world.
  • Monthly performance of the S&P 500 sectors.
  • FAANGs monthly performance, or 5 of the most important companies listed on the US stock market.

The purpose of this analysis is purely informative.


Performance of the best indices and components

The Monthly performance and performance of the 5 winners and losers of the following indices:

  • S&P 500
    • index of the 500 largest U.S. publicly traded companies.
  • NASDAQ 100:
    • index of the largest non-financial companies listed on the NASDAQ.
  • Dow Jones Industrial Average:
    • index of 30 United States bluechip companies.

The S&P 500 index (which includes the 500 largest U.S. publicly traded companies) ended the month with a negative performance ( -0,16% ).

L Brands Inc ( 27,81% ) and Paycom Software Inc ( 20,17% ) the best stocks of the month. Technipfmc Plc ( -22,99% ) and Capri Holdings Ltd ( -21,47% ) the worst.

Financials sector ( 3,89% ) is the best of the month. Real Estate sector ( -3,24% ) is the worst.

The NASDAQ 100 index (that includes the largest non-financial companies listed on the NASDAQ) closed the month with a positive performance ( 2,96% ).

The best of the Nasdaq 100 index are Tesla Inc ( 55,52% ) and Mercadolibre Inc ( 15,92% ). The worst of the month are Incyte Corp ( -16,32% ) and United Continental Holdings ( -15,09% ).

Finally, the Dow Jones Industrial Average index (which includes the 30 United States bluechip companies) ended the month with a negative performance ( -1,01% ).

This month winners of the Dow Jones Ind. are McDonald’s Corp ( 8,28% ) and Microsoft Corp ( 7,95% ). The losers of the month are Dow Inc ( -15,82% ) and Walgreens Boots Alliance ( -13,76% ).


S&P 500 sectors performance

The Monthly performance of the S&P 500 sectors:


FAANGs performance

The Monthly performance of the so-called FAANGs, or 5 of the most important companies listed on the US stock market:

  • Facebook (F)
  • Apple (A)
  • Amazon (A)
  • Netflix (N)
  • Google (G)

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This Monthly summary of the United States stock market provides you a useful informative tool.

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Sources & additional info

*Indices, components, FAANGs, sectors performance and all-time highs/lows by barchart.com
*FAANGs Logos by wikipedia.com


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