Top 25 Most Mentioned Stocks of 2022

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Today's Letter

• Top (non-meme) stocks of 2022

• Top (non-meme) stocks - Visualized

• Top Meme Stocks this week

Top (Non-Meme) Stocks of 2022

Some might say this list is boring, but isn't that what investing should really be like? The theme of this list (according to the data) happens to be around blue-chip stocks and ETFs, but there are a few interesting tickers in there as well. First, I'll go through the top 10 list and some of the details. Then I'll follow it up with the all-inclusive top 25 list, visualized, which is further in the letter.

#10 & #8 - Silver (~41,000 mentions), and Gold (~58,000 mentions), respectively:

Gold and Silver mentions spiking this year touted as THE "hedge" against "inflation". Doubled the quotes on both because after what was meant to protect your portfolio still had a negative return YTD. Looks like it wasn't a great hedge as we just witnessed one of the largest spikes (persistent) in inflation of the last 30 years and Gold and Silver still found no buyers. Weird.

#9 - Nvidia (NVDA) with ~43,000 mentions: Nvidia (along with AMD) rose in popularity last year after the two semi-conductor companies provided outstanding returns. In 2021, NVDA closed with nearly a 150% gain on the year. It was a different story in 2022 as shares are down 45% YTD. Social mentions tended to spike around earnings calls and as the stock price dropped to new lows each down (buying the dip?).

#7 - Microsoft (MSFT) with ~58,000 mentions: Microsoft, the true stable-coin in the equities market. MSFT shares are down 27% YTD, relative to the -17% SPY for the year and it's not so bad considering the rest of tech has been taken to behind the Wendy's dumpster.

#6 - Amazon (AMZN) with ~66,000 mentions: Amazon was another "big tech" that got hit nearly as hard as Meta platforms. AMZN shares are down 47% YTD and the mega-cap had lost nearly 1 trillion in market-cap at one point this year.

#5 - GameStop (GME) with ~79,000 mentions: Can't stop, won't stop, GameStop. The main focus for this company has of course been the "mother of all short-squeezes" (MOASS), which will happen "any day now" -true story, I heard it from a friend of a friend.

One thing is for certain is that this stock still remains volatile and high beta. Most hype around the name tends to occur around large price swings. Shares of GME are down 40% for the year even after a 10% spike after earnings last week.

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#4 - Oil and price of oil with ~83,000 mentions: What a year for the energy sector and the price of oil. Incredibly, after crude oil futures peaked at $120, the price has come back down to exactly where it was... wait for it... 1 year ago.

#3 - SPY with ~90,000 mentions: No briefing here, market go up market go down, we're just along for the ride.

#2 - Apple (AAPL) with ~93,000 mentions: Apple has recently become some of the retail fan-boys (and girls) most loved stock over the last couple years. Why? Because of their consistent and reliable gains, or so we thought.

However, AAPL is down 22% YTD, which underperforms the SPY currently at -17% for the year.

#1 - Tesla (TSLA) with ~115,000 mentions: It's no wonder the Tesla stock has the capability to get Gamma-squeezed (or least used to). It's generally the most talked about stock with everything that Elon does that includes SpaceX, The Boring Company, Tesla, and now Twitter.

Tesla shares are down 55% YTD.

Honorable Mentions

Interesting ETFs that made the top 25 list (outside of what was already mentioned above).

ASHX: This China-focused ETF made the top 25 list as investors tried to gain exposure to China companies without the risk of holding single names. The China trade has been extremely volatile with all political news coming out and potentially losing their place on the exchanges.

VTI: Vanguard total stock market ETF, which mainly big-tech is popular among retail traders.

VOO: Another Vanguard ETF, this time the holdings include stocks from the S&P 500.

SOXL: 3x Bull semi-conductor ETF seems to be popular among degens traders. The largest holdings include companies like NVDA, AMD, TXN, QCOM, etc.

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