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Between Oracle’s (ORCL) 30%+ surge this morning and a weaker-than-expected PPI report, you would expect futures to be higher, but maybe the biggest surprise is that they aren’t up more. Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are indicated to open up 0.5%, and given it’s still September, bulls will take all they can get. Treasury yields are little changed, commodities are fractionally higher, and crypto is seeing the largest gains as Bitcoin and Ethereum are both up over 1.5%.
The market’s focus has now shifted to the upcoming inflation data, but yesterday, Apple (AAPL) was a focus with the launch of the latest iPhone models. As noted in our Chart of the Day from Monday, AAPL’s performance on the day of iPhone announcements has been weak, and yesterday was no exception as the stock fell 1.48%. As shown in the chart, for all the gains AAPL has had in the iPhone era, one of the worst days to own the stock has been on these announcement days.
Normally, AAPL’s stock performs well in the lead-up to iPhone announcements, but that hasn’t been the case this year. Over the last six months, the stock has declined 2%, which is weaker than any of the other nine trillion-dollar S&P 500 stocks. The only other one that is down during this stretch is Berkshire Hathaway (BRK/b), which also happens to be one of the company’s largest shareholders.
More recently, though, AAPL has started to turn the corner. Since the start of August, the stock has rallied 12.9% which ranks as the fourth-best among the trillion-dollar stocks, trailing Alphabet (GOOGL), Broadcom (AVGO), and Tesla (TSLA).
Speaking of the largest stocks, the trillion-dollar club may be on the verge of getting a new member. As of yesterday’s close, shares of Oracle (ORCL) had a market cap of $680 billion. After reporting a blowout earnings report, though, the stock is trading nearly 32% higher in the pre-market, which would take its market cap up just shy of $900 billion, catapulting it from the 13th largest stock in the S&P 500 and into the top ten list. It’s hard to comprehend just how large a move ORCL is having in reaction to its earnings. Only 42 companies in the S&P 500 have a larger market cap than ORCL’s market cap increase since the close yesterday, and it’s also larger than the entire market cap of Disney (DIS). Less than 0.35% of all earnings reports since 2001 have seen a stock rally more than 31% in reaction to earnings, and in those rare instances, the gains have been typically in small and micro-cap stocks.
