{"id":80313,"date":"2021-12-28T00:17:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T05:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=80313"},"modified":"2021-12-27T23:29:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T04:29:17","slug":"alphabet-was-the-top-big-tech-stock-of-the-year-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2021\/alphabet-was-the-top-big-tech-stock-of-the-year-heres-why.html","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet was the top Big Tech stock of the year \u2014 here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) As of Thursday\u2019s close at $2938.33, Alphabet\u2019s stock is up 68% this year. With just five trading days left in 2021, it\u2019s virtually impossible for any of its biggest peers to catch up. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/MSFT\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a> is the closest, up 51%. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/AAPL\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a> has gained 33%, followed by Facebook (now <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/FB\" target=\"_blank\">Meta<\/a>) at 23% and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/AMZN\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> at 5%. You can even throw in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/TSLA\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla<\/a>, which has climbed 51% for the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/27\/alphabet-was-the-top-big-tech-stock-of-the-year-heres-why.html\">To read this article:<\/a>\\<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) As of Thursday\u2019s close at $2938.33, Alphabet\u2019s stock is up 68% this year. With just five trading days left in 2021, it\u2019s virtually impossible for any of its biggest peers to catch up. Microsoft is the closest, up 51%. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80314,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80313\/revisions\/80314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}