
Shareholders in Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META), one of the renowned Magnificent Seven stocks, just got a bout of good news. Meta’s Apr. 30 earnings impressed markets, resulting in shares rising over 4% the day after. Due to Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) arguably more impressive earnings, Meta can now only claim to be the second-best performer in the Mag Seven in 2025. As of the May 1 close, Meta has a total return of around -2% in 2025. Microsoft managed to get out of the red, with a total return of around 1% on the year.
The performance of these two stocks is particularly impressive, considering that all the other Mag 7 names are down over 10% in 2025.