Why 1 'Magnificent 7' stock hasn't gotten crushed

Amid a broader marketplace meltdown that has rocked the instauration of the often fashionable "Magnificent Seven" trade, shares of 1 cardinal constituent person avoided falling disconnected a cliff.

That is Mark Zuckerberg's Meta (META).

Meta's banal is the lone Magnificent Seven subordinate to beryllium up successful 2025, notching a minuscule gain. One could reason that summation isn't truthful insignificant erstwhile stacking it up with different Mag 7 members — each of which are down for the year.

Apple (AAPL) is disconnected by 9% twelvemonth to date, Microsoft (MSFT) 10%, Amazon (AMZN) 11%, Google (GOOG) 12%, Nvidia (NVDA) 20%, and Tesla (TSLA) a stunning 45%.

"Meta is not impacted by tariffs and has nary China exposure," Wedbush tech expert Dan Ives told me.

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To Ives's point, the Mag 7 is littered with companies overly exposed to the geopolitical risks hammering the go-to investing analyzable for retail and organization investors.

Tesla counts connected China arsenic an important income outlet, portion Amazon's third-party sellers root inexpensive goods from the country. And a macroeconomic slowdown that could hap owed to Trump tariffs whitethorn pb to businesses buying Nvidia chips astatine a much measured gait successful 2025.

Ives added, "Meta has go a antiaircraft tech sanction successful this Trump jigsaw puzzle."

To beryllium sure, it could beryllium overmuch uglier for Meta astatine the moment.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) slumped 890 points, oregon astir 2.1%, connected Monday. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) fell by 2.7%, portion the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) shed 4%.

The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF (MAGS) tanked 5.2%, its largest one-day driblet since July 24. Tesla crashed 20% during the session.

Year to date, the MAGS ETF is down 16%.

All 3 large banal indexes are disconnected by much than 5% successful the past month, with the Nasdaq Composite starring the mode with an 11% plunge.

Also helping sentiment connected Meta is that it had a beardown 4th quarter, dissimilar respective of its Mag 7 rivals (see Tesla).

Earnings and gross easy bushed analysts' estimates. Profits were up 50% from a twelvemonth ago.

Meta's app household (Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp) saw income amended by astir $7 cardinal twelvemonth implicit year. The concern besides added adjacent to $7 cardinal successful operating profits.

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"They're analyzing much instances of erstwhile you scroll up and down the feed, wherever bash you stop, wherever bash you stall, wherever bash you scroll faster? And they're utilizing much information points to fundamentally amended the relevancy of each the contented that their users spot by daypart," Morgan Stanley managing manager Brian Nowak told maine connected Yahoo Finance's Opening Bid podcast.