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Storage stocks rebound, outperforming the Magnificent Seven by nearly 6 percentage points; Nvidia sees a large increase in positions
BlockBeats news,November 11, from the closing price after the sharp drop on November 5 U.S. Eastern Time through the close on November 10, the storage stocks Micron, Western Digital, Seagate and SanDisk rebounded by an average of 8.17%; over the same period, the Magnificent Seven rose by an average of 2.29%(for comparison, the Magnificent Seven portfolio ETF MAGS rose 2.54%over the same period). Storage stocks collectively outperformed the Magnificent Seven by approximately 5.88 percentage points.
Among individual stocks, Micron led the storage sector with a gain of 10.47%(Western Digital rose 8.06%, Seagate rose 7.52%, and SanDisk rose 6.64%). Among the Magnificent Seven, only Tesla, up 10.50%, performed similarly to Micron; the other all underperformed the storage stocks, with Meta rising 6.00%and Nvidia falling sharply against the trend by 7.00%.
The storage stocks' lead was primarily attributable to their surge on November 9(the storage stocks rose by an average of 8.02%, while the Magnificent Seven rose by an average of just 2.24%). Both groups subsequently declined on November 10(storage stocks fell 1.30%, while the Magnificent Seven fell 0.95%).
Using the closing price on November 4, before the sharp drop, as the baseline, the storage stocks are still down an average of 11.64%, while the Magnificent Seven are down 2.61%. Despite the sharp short-term rebound, the storage sector has yet to recover its earlier losses.
However, according to TradingBeats monitoring, from the U.S. market open on November 9 through publication, contracts on Micron, SanDisk and Hynix's South Korean shares rose approximately 6.4%、3.6%and 8.6%, respectively, while the contracts' combined notional OI fell against the trend from approximately 653000000 USD to 618000000 USD, a decrease of approximately 34600000 USD.
Among the Magnificent Seven, total contract notional OI increased by approximately 129000000 USD, with Nvidia accounting for almost all of the increase (NVDA contract OI increased by approximately 150000000 USD), while the other collectively decreased by approximately 21000000 USD.