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FAANG Stocks In First-half: Last Year's Laggards Google, Facebook Come On Top As Apple, Amazon And Netflix Fall Off

The broader market witnessed some scare in the early part of the first half of 2021 but came back up

FAANG Stocks In First-half: Last Year's Laggards Google, Facebook Come On Top As Apple, Amazon And Netflix Fall Off

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Subsequently, the index experienced some volatility and was largely rangebound.</p>\n<p>In late January, the market suffered a sell-off, which was blamed on the speculative behavior of retail investors.</p>\n<p>Although the market bounced back up fairly soon, another sell-off, orchestrated by tech meltdown, ensued in early March.</p>\n<p>After a broadly higher move until early May, the market retreated yet again but this time around the pullback was short-lived.</p>\n<p>The resilient market shot back up and is hovering near record territory despite macroeconomic worries overrising inflation.</p>\n<p><b>Apple In The Red:Apple Inc.</b>(NASDAQ:AAPL), which is the most valued tech company, has had an&nbsp;unenterprising first half.</p>\n<p>Despite reporting stellar first-quarter results, as the iPhone 12 momentum spilled over past the holiday quarter, the shares are still down for the year-to-period.</p>\n<p>In comparison, Apple shares were solidly higher in the same period last year and ended 2020 as the top-performing FAANG stock.</p>\n<p>Apple's best comes out in the second half, be it&nbsp;its products or financial performance.</p>\n<p>Given that Apple is Apple, one cannot write it off yet. 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Subsequently, the index experienced some volatility and was largely rangebound.\nIn late January, the market suffered a sell-off, which was blamed on the speculative behavior of retail investors.\nAlthough the market bounced back up fairly soon, another sell-off, orchestrated by tech meltdown, ensued in early March.\nAfter a broadly higher move until early May, the market retreated yet again but this time around the pullback was short-lived.\nThe resilient market shot back up and is hovering near record territory despite macroeconomic worries overrising inflation.\nApple In The Red:Apple Inc.(NASDAQ:AAPL), which is the most valued tech company, has had an unenterprising first half.\nDespite reporting stellar first-quarter results, as the iPhone 12 momentum spilled over past the holiday quarter, the shares are still down for the year-to-period.\nIn comparison, Apple shares were solidly higher in the same period last year and ended 2020 as the top-performing FAANG stock.\nApple's best comes out in the second half, be it its products or financial performance.\nGiven that Apple is Apple, one cannot write it off yet. The likely launch of the next iteration of its iPhone in September could kickstart a rally in the second half.\n\nNetflix Puts Up a Flop Show:Streaming giantNetflix, Inc.(NASDAQ:NFLX) is facing turbulence amid increasing competition, which has put pressure on its net subscriber addition.\nAdditionally, tougher comparisons versus the lock-down induced strength in 2020 is serving as a dampener.\nThe stock is still down for the year-to-date period vis-à-vis very strong performances for the first half of 2020 and the full year 2020.\nWith \"Money Heist\" and \"The Witcher\" — two of Netflix' most successful shows — likely to return in the second half, subscriber numbers should look up in the fourth quarter, according to KeyBanc analyst Justin Patterson.\nLaggards Turn Leaders:Shares ofFacebook, Inc.(NASDAQ:FB) andAlphabet, Inc.(NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG), both of which had a single-digit gain percentage in the first half of 2020, are the best performers of the year-to-date period in 2021.\nFacebook has emerged stronger from the data scandal and the COVID-19 pandemic came at the right time, giving a lift to its user engagement.\nDaily active users rose 11% year-over-year to 1.84 billion at the end of 2020 and the monthly active user count was at 2.80 billion, up 12%.\nThese increased further to 1.878 billion and 2.853 billion, respectively at the end of the first quarter of 2021.\nGoogle is thus far the best performing FAANG stocks, thanks to solid support from rising ad revenues from its core search business and its YouTube video platform.\nIn addition to ad revenues, YouTube now collects subscription fees. 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