FAANG stocks refers to the group of high-profile tech and consumer internet companies: Meta (formerly Facebook), Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Alphabet (Google). These firms are often grouped together because of their outsized influence on the stock market, their growth profiles, and how movements in their share prices can affect broader indices.
While each company has different business models (e.g. cloud, media, hardware, e-commerce), the FAANG grouping highlights their role as trendsetters and market drivers. Their performance often reflects broader tech sentiment, and many investment funds benchmark or weight their exposure relative to these names.
