The Nasdaq Just Entered a New Bull Market. Is It Too Late to Buy the Invesco QQQ ETF?
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The Nasdaq-100 is to 100 of the largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. It's typically used as a yardstick for the performance of the nology industry because some...
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The Nasdaq-100 is to 100 of the largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange
It's typically used as a yardstick for the performance of the nology industry because some of its top holdings include powerhouses Nvidia, Microsoft, and Apple
The Nasdaq-100 plunged into bear market territory in April after losing 23% of its peak value, driven by President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs, which threatened to derail the global economy
But most of America's trading partners are now at the negotiating table, so the president placed his most aggressive import penalties on hold
As a result, the index has recovered and is now trading at a new record high, which means a fresh bull market is underway
The Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ -0. 75%) is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks the performance of the Nasdaq-100, so it offers a simple way for investors to own a slice of the entire index
Did investors miss their opportunity to buy the dip earlier this year, or is more upside on the way
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The "Magnificent Seven" pulled the Nasdaq out of its slump The "Magnificent Seven" is a group of companies that lead different segments of the nology industry
They earned the name for their incredible size and their ability to consistently outperform the rest of the stock market
The seven companies represent an eye-popping 42. 1% of the Nasdaq-100 index and, by extension, the Invesco QQQ ETF: Stock Invesco ETF Portfolio Weighting Nvidia 9. 12% Microsoft 8. 68% Apple 7. 55% Amazon 5. 55% Alphabet 4. 80% Meta Platforms 3. 68% Tesla 2. 73% Data source: Invesco
Portfolio weightings are accurate as of July 2, 2025, and are subject to change
The Nasdaq-100 set its bear-market bottom on April 8, and it has since climbed by almost 34%
But the Magnificent Seven stocks have dered average and median returns of 35% over the same period
Nvidia and Microsoft are the only two stocks in the Magnificent Seven to set a new record high since April, so the group might still have room for upside from here
Most of the seven companies also have solid fundamentals that support further gains, mainly because they are leaders in different areas of the artificial intelligence (AI) race
Nvidia supplies graphics cessing units (GPUs) for data centers, which are the most powerful chips for AI
Microsoft, on the other hand, is successfully commercializing an advanced AI assistant called Copilot, and the company also offers a growing portfolio of AI services through its Azure cloud platform
Amazon and Alphabet are Microsoft's biggest competitors in the AI cloud space, and they have each developed their own AI assistants, too
Then there is Meta Platforms, which created the Llama open-source large language models (LLMs), in addition to its own chatbot called Meta AI
But the Invesco ETF is to several other minent AI companies outside of the Magnificent Seven
In the semiconductor space, there are Broadcom, Advanced Micro Devices, and Micron nology
Then on the AI software side, the ETF holds Palantir nologies, Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Atlassian, and Datadog
This could be a great time to buy the Invesco QQQ ETF The Nasdaq-100 has experienced seven bear since the Invesco QQQ ETF was established in 1999
Nevertheless, the ETF has still dered a compound annual return of 10. 1% over the last 26 years, which highlights the benefits of taking a long-term apach and holding through volatility
The ETF has also generated an accelerated annual return of 18. 7% over the last 10 years, thanks to the liferation of nologies smartphones, advanced semiconductors, cloud computing, enterprise software, and now, AI
It's difficult to predict which companies will unlock the most value from AI over the long run because the industry is moving so fast, having spawned several trillion-dollar opportunities already
In 2023, Bloomberg estimated that generative AI would become a $1. 3 trillion industry by 2032
But in May of this year, Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff predicted agentic AI -- which wasn't even a main concept until a few months ago -- could become a $12 trillion market on its own
In the hardware space, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang thinks data center operators will be spending $1 trillion per year to build AI infrastructure by 2028
Investors who buy the Invesco QQQ ETF won't have to separate the winners from the losers, because they will own a slice of the biggest players in each segment of the AI industry
This will bably be a very effective strategy, so even though the ETF just set a new record high, it's ly still a great buy for anyone willing to hold onto it for the next five to 10 years (or more)
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Anthony Di Pizio has no position in any of the stocks mentioned
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