Depending on what you've been buying, 2025 has been either a great year or one full of heartburn. The broad-based S&P 500 Index is down 0.6% year to date but 4.9% from a February 19 52-week high reached in the aftermath of November's election.
Meanwhile, mega-cap tech stocks such as Apple (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN) and Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL) are all in the red since January 1 despite being go-to leaders over the last few years.
