Surprise! Apple is 2022’s ‘biggest stock-market loser.’

December 30, 2022

If you've been following the news this past week, it might seem that Tesla would take the crown for the biggest stock market loser of 2022.

The sliding stock has taken a 65.4% battering -- generating all kinds of headlines and frenzied tweets.

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has been beaten up, too, and Amazon's stock has declined nearly 50%. In fact, the whole tech sector has taken a shellacking.

But none of them can hold a candle to Apple, whose market capitalization has declined the most of all the companies on the stock exchange.

Say what? Didn't Apple enjoy profitable, sometimes record-breaking quarters all year?

It did, but the stock still slid, earning Apple the title of 2022's biggest stock-market loser. Color me shocked!

-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

It’s no secret 2022 has been a volatile year for tech stocks, even as Apple has stayed locked in its familiar role of stock market juggernaut, always beating earnings expectations somehow. So you might be surprised to hear that Apple is this year’s biggest stock-market loser.

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