Deep Dive: Facebook wasn’t Thursday’s only big loser — these 16 other Nasdaq-100 stocks dropped at least 5%

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Thursday was brutal for technology stock investors, as the carnage spread far beyond the parent company of Facebook.

Below is a list of the worst 20 performers among the Nasdaq-100 on Feb. 3., led by a 26% plunge in Meta Platforms Inc.
FB,
-26.39%

following a disappointing fourth-quarter earnings announcement.

Read: Facebook stands to shed more than $200 billion in market value after rough earnings report

Here’s how the broad indexes performed on Feb. 3:

  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average
    DJIA,
    -1.45%

    fared best, declining 518 points, or 1.5%, to close at 35,111.16. Despite all the fear in the market as investors look ahead to an expected cycle of interest-rate increases by the Federal Reserve, the Dow has pulled back only 3.4% during 2022 and only 5% from its all-time intraday high set on Jan. 5.

  • The S&P 500
    SPX,
    -2.44%

    pulled back 2.4% for the session. The benchmark index is now down 6.1% for 2022 and down 7.1% from its high set on Jan. 4.

  • The Nasdaq Composite Index
    COMP,
    -3.74%

    dropped 3.7% and is now down 11.3% for 2022 and 14.4% from its intraday high set on Nov. 22. The index is in correction territory, having fallen more than 10%.

  • The Nasdaq-100 Index
    NDX,
    -4.22%
    ,
    made up of the largest nonfinancial companies in the full Nasdaq and tracked by the Invesco QQQ Trust
    QQQ,
    -4.05%
    ,
    sank 4.2%. It is also in the midst of a correction, declining 11.1% this year and 13.5% from its intraday high, also set on Nov 22.

Meta tops the Nasdaq-100 loser list

Here are the 20 worst performers among the Nasdaq-100 on Feb. 3:

Company

Ticker

Price change – Feb. 3

Price change – 2022

Decline from 52-week high

Date of 52-week high

Meta Platforms Inc. Class A

FB,
-26.39%
-26.4%

-29.4%

-38.2%

09/01/2021

Amazon.com Inc.

AMZN,
-7.81%
-7.8%

-16.7%

-26.4%

07/13/2021

MercadoLibre Inc.

MELI,
-7.65%
-7.7%

-25.9%

-50.2%

02/16/2021

Honeywell International Inc.

HON,
-7.62%
-7.6%

-8.0%

-19.0%

08/02/2021

Marvell Technology Inc.

MRVL,
-7.36%
-7.4%

-21.6%

-26.9%

12/08/2021

Zoom Video Communications Inc. Class A

ZM,
-6.87%
-6.9%

-25.0%

-69.5%

02/16/2021

Skyworks Solutions Inc.

SWKS,
-6.69%
-6.7%

-10.7%

-32.1%

04/29/2021

Texas Instruments Inc.

TXN,
-6.52%
-6.5%

-6.8%

-13.2%

10/25/2021

PayPal Holdings Inc.

PYPL,
-6.24%
-6.2%

-34.1%

-59.9%

07/26/2021

Microchip Technology Inc.

MCHP,
-6.16%
-6.1%

-14.8%

-17.6%

12/28/2021

DocuSign Inc.

DOCU,
-6.03%
-6.0%

-25.0%

-63.7%

08/10/2021

NXP Semiconductors NV

NXPI,
-5.71%
-5.7%

-12.9%

-17.3%

12/07/2021

Netflix Inc.

NFLX,
-5.56%
-5.6%

-32.7%

-42.1%

11/17/2021

KLA Corp.

KLAC,
-5.51%
-5.4%

-13.0%

-18.2%

01/13/2022

Lululemon Athletica Inc.

LULU,
-5.40%
-5.4%

-15.6%

-32.0%

11/16/2021

Nvidia Corp.

NVDA,
-5.13%
-5.1%

-18.6%

-30.9%

11/22/2021

Match Group Inc.

MTCH,
-5.11%
-5.1%

-15.3%

-38.5%

10/21/2021

Splunk Inc.

SPLK,
-4.85%
-4.9%

-0.7%

-35.5%

02/02/2021

Zscaler Inc.

ZS,
-4.85%
-4.8%

-23.7%

-34.9%

11/19/2021

Qualcomm Inc.

QCOM,
-4.84%
-4.8%

-2.1%

-7.5%

01/05/2022

Source: FactSet

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