Luke Kawa7/17/24

US stocks plunge as tech sector loses $595 billion in value

Not a good day to check your 401K.

The S&P 500 suffered its first loss of over 1% since the end of April, while the small cap rally ran out of steam and tech stocks remain stuck in the penalty box.

The Nasdaq 100 was crushed, down 2.9% in its worst day since December 2022. The US tech sector lost $595 billion in market capitalization today. This was second-worst day of value destruction for tech stocks in history, surpassed only by the heights of the coronavirus-induced bear market in March 2020.

Political hijinks – on both sides of the aisle – fueled a massive selloff in semiconductor stocks, with the VanEck Semiconductor ETF ending down 7.1%.

Nvidia alone erased nearly $206 billion in market cap today – roughly equivalent to the value of Wells Fargo.

The Russell 2000 Index broke its streak of five straight sessions up more than 1% with a 1.1% decline.

Consumer staples, energy, real estate, and financial S&P sector ETFs posted solid gains.

Johnson & Johnson was a particularly bright spot, up 3.7% after reporting better than expected quarterly profits.

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Chipotle beats Q4 estimates, but sinks on underwhelming full-year guidance

Chipotle reported earnings results that beat Wall Street estimates, but gave underwhelming full-year guidance.

For the last three months of 2025, Chipotle reported:

Adjusted earnings per share of $0.25, compared to the $0.24 analysts polled by FactSet were expecting.
Revenue of $3 billion, a bit higher than the $2.9 billion the Street was penciling in.
A comparable-store sales decline of 2.5%, less than the 2.9% decline the Street was expecting.

For the full year in 2026, Chipotle expects:

Comparable-store sales to be flat, compared to the 1.7% growth analysts were expecting.

Chipotle has struggled to spark sales over the past year and has previously cited strained consumers as a major headwind. The company fell more than 9% in after-hours trading shortly after the report was released.

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Take-Two raises its net bookings outlook, reaffirms November release for “Grand Theft Auto 6”

“Grand Theft Auto” and “NBA 2K” maker Take-Two reported results for its fiscal third quarter on Tuesday. Its shares climbed about 4% in after-hours trading.

The company posted net bookings, or the amount customers spent on its products, of $1.76 billion, up 28% from the same quarter last year. Wall Street analysts polled by FactSet expected $1.58 billion. In November, Take-Two guided for Q3 net bookings of between $1.55 billion and $1.6 billion.

Take-Two hiked its full-year bookings outlook to between $6.65 billion and $6.7 billion, up from a range of $6.4 billion to $6.5 billion. The new outlook compares to Wall Street’s $6.47 billion estimate. The gaming giant trimmed its full-year net loss guidance to between $369 million and $338 million (prior guidance: between $414 million and $349 million).

In its last quarter, Take-Two pushed back the planned release date of “Grand Theft Auto 6” from May 2026 to November 19, 2026. The company reaffirmed that date in Tuesday’s report. The game’s last trailer came in May 2025.

Shares of Take-Two and other major gaming companies have been sinking since late last week as investors react to early showcases of Google’s Project Genie, which allows users to generate interactive, “playable” worlds with a text or image prompt. As of Tuesday’s close, Take-Two has shed nearly $6 billion in market cap since Project Genie was released.

Analysts have called the market reaction unjustified, saying that the tool doesn’t allow for meaningful interactivity or replay-ability. According to mBank analyst Piotr Poniatowski, Project Genie is — at the moment — essentially a “one-minute-long walking simulator generator.”

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