
The AAII Sentiment Survey just confirmed what every investor scrolling X already suspected: a growing number of retail investors think the stock market has shrunk from 500 companies to… roughly seven. The "Mag-7" — Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL), Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN), Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG), Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META), Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT), Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA), and Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA)— continue to dominate returns, headlines, and portfolio anxiety. And now, investors are saying the quiet part out loud: this concentration is becoming a major risk.
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