{"id":381752,"date":"2026-05-01T00:02:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/tech-stocks-close-out-best-month-since-start-of-covid-pandemic-in-2020\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T00:02:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:02:02","slug":"tech-stocks-close-out-best-month-since-start-of-covid-pandemic-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/tech-stocks-close-out-best-month-since-start-of-covid-pandemic-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech stocks close out best month since start of Covid pandemic in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108267457-1771521451880-gettyimages-2261924383-porzycki-magnific260219_npXEL.jpeg?v=1777574808&w=1920&h=1080&ssl=1&w=75&resize=75&ssl=1 75w, 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It&#8217;s the company&#8217;s best month since October 2004, the year it went public.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-7\">Meta<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> fell 9% Thursday after announcing an increase in its capex spend, but still gained nearly 7% for the month.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of Amazon rose 27% in April, while <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-8\">Broadcom<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" 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class=\"RelatedContent-container\">\n<div class=\"RelatedContent-nonCollapsibleContent\">\n<h2 class=\"RelatedContent-header\">Read more CNBC tech news<\/h2>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<ul>\n<li>Google cloud growth tops Microsoft and Amazon as all three beat estimates on AI demand<\/li>\n<li>Investors still trust Google more than Meta when it comes to spending their money on AI<\/li>\n<li>Samsung profit surges over eightfold to beat estimates as AI boom fuels memory chip crunch<\/li>\n<li>Meta&#8217;s Reality Labs lost over $4 billion in first quarter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>Chip stocks saw an especially strong month as the demand for data centers continued to rise. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-11\">Micron<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" 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April, the best month in the company&#8217;s 55-year history. <\/p>\n<p>April&#8217;s gains mark a turning point for the tech sector, which has had a rough start to 2026. Tech stocks, especially software, have been pressured as fears of artificial intelligence disruption continue to escalate. <\/p>\n<p>Year-to-date, the Nasdaq Composite is up 7%. Most of those gains came in April, as the index was down roughly 7% on the last day of March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"Placeholder-ArticleBody-Video-108300184\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p><em>CORRECTION: This story has been updated to correct the statistic on Qualcomm&#8217;s stock performance.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"ArticleBody-MobileAdhesion\" class=\"MobileAdhesion-container\" data-module=\"mps-slot\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleBody-googlePreferredSourceContainer\" data-module=\"GooglePreferredSource\" data-id=\"RegularArticle-GooglePreferredSource-5\">\n<div class=\"ArticleBody-googlePreferredSourceBorder\"><\/div>\n<p>Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article .IXIC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite climbed 15.29% in April,<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":381753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108267457-1771521451880-gettyimages-2261924383-porzycki-magnific260219_npXEL.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Tech stocks close out best month since start of Covid pandemic in 2020","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2288,93,2574,101,90],"class_list":["post-381752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inv-business","tag-best","tag-close","tag-pandemic","tag-stocks","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}