The Nasdaq 100 Index has sunk almost 8% from its July 10 record, wiping $2.3 trillion off the market value of companies in the benchmark. The index is still up 13% this year, and an
investor survey by Bank of America Corp. this month showed that positioning in the so-called Magnificent Seven was the most crowded trade since exposure to growth stocks in October 2020.
“Valuations of mega-cap tech were increasingly impossible to justify with anything but the most heroic forecast for future growth, earnings and monetary policy,” said James Athey, portfolio manager at Marlborough Group. “It’s inevitable that these kinds of extremes cannot persist.”