Jefferies: NVDA as top Magnificent Seven

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Jefferies ranked Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) as its top Magnificent Seven name, while Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) found itself at the bottom of the heavyweight group.

“Each of the seven stocks have outperformed [the S&P 500] over the past five years… However, not all stocks have fared equally well,” Jefferies said.

In order to properly rank the seven giants, Jefferies used a quantitative model that measured several factors including better growth and revisions, improving sell-side sentiment, price momentum, lower valuations, high yield, high/rising ROIC, and R&D vs. capex.

See Jefferies' ranking of the Magnificent Seven below:

No. 1: Nvidia (NVDA)

No. 2: Alphabet (GOOG) (GOOGL)

No. 3: Meta Platforms (META)

No. 4: Apple (AAPL)

No. 5: Amazon (AMZN)

No. 6: Tesla (TSLA)

No. 7: Microsoft (MSFT)

Regarding its top pick Nvidia (NVDA), the investment bank added: “[NVDA] scores the best on growth/revisions, sell side sentiment, valuations and high/rising ROIC while also ranking reasonably well on price momentum and R&D vs capex. It ranks averageonly on yield.”

As for its bottom pick Microsoft (MSFT), it stated: “Overall, this stock [MSFT] has all below average characteristics except sell-side sentiment.”

See the megacap club's 2024 performance below:

Jefferies ranks NVDA as top Magnificent Seven name and MSFT at the bottom

Additionally, see how each stock has fared so far in 2025: $NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$   +2.4%, $Alphabet(GOOG)$  +3.7%, $Meta Platforms, Inc.(META)$  +4.7%, $Apple(AAPL)$   -7.7%, $Amazon.com(AMZN)$  +2.3%, TSLA +6.8%, and MSFT +1.8%.

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