Dow Jones Stocks: Apple Above Buy Point, Nvidia Reverses Lower

With the Dow Jones Industrial Average looking to extremity the twelvemonth with coagulated gains, the champion Dow Jones stocks to ticker successful December 2024 are Apple (AAPL), Nvidia (NVDA), Salesforce (CRM), Sherwin-Williams (SHW) and Travelers (TRV).

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There are wide winners — and losers — astatine the commencement of December. The apical 3 performing bluish spot stocks successful 2024 done December 4 were Nvidia, Walmart (WMT) and American Express (AXP), posting advances of 183.2%, 78.1% and 61.3%, respectively.

The worst 3 Dow Jones stocks successful 2024 truthful acold are Boeing (BA), Nike (NKE) and Merck (MRK), with respective declines of 40.5%, 27.4% and 6.6%.

In the archetypal week of December 2024, the S&P 500 is up 26.8%, portion the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 18.6% for the period. And the Nasdaq is up 29.8% since Jan. 1.

What Is The Dow Jones Industrial Average?

Founded successful 1896 with 12 stocks, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is 1 of the oldest banal marketplace indexes. There are 30 Dow Jones stocks designed to service arsenic a bellwether for the wide U.S. banal market. Other large banal indexes see the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite and the S&P 500 scale — an scale of the 500 largest companies successful the U.S.

Best Dow Jones Stocks To Watch

Source: IBD Data As Of Dec. 4, 2024

Amid the existent banal marketplace rally — according to the IBD Big Picture — investors should absorption connected stocks that amusement strong comparative strength. These could proceed to beryllium 2024 marketplace leaders if the Dow Jones Industrial Average is capable to widen its gains.

The champion Dow Jones stocks to ticker successful 2024 see Apple, Nvidia, Salesforce, Sherwin-Williams and Travelers.

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Dow Jones Leader: Apple Stock

Among Dow Jones stocks successful the Magnificent Seven, Apple banal fell 0.1% Friday, ending a five-day triumph streak.

Apple shares are supra a 237.49 bargain constituent successful a level base.

Nvidia Stock Rebounds

Nvidia banal reversed 1.8% little Friday. The banal is conscionable supra a 140.76 buy point and rebounding from the 10-week line, a captious enactment area.

In caller weeks, Nvidia bushed Wall Street's targets for its fiscal 3rd quarter, but its income outlook for the existent play was lone somewhat supra views.

The tech titan is an IBD Leaderboard stock.

Salesforce Hits New High

Software person Salesforce surged to caller highs this week aft the company reported third-quarter net that missed estimates amid a one-time concern loss, portion gross and a cardinal metric came successful supra expectations. Salesforce appears to beryllium gaining traction with caller artificial quality products, analysts said.

Shares of Salesforce climbed 0.2% Friday.

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Sherwin-Williams Eyes Buy Point

Paint elephantine Sherwin-Williams is attempting to interruption retired past a 392.57 bargain constituent successful a level base.

Shares fell 0.1% Friday, conscionable beneath their bargain trigger.

Travelers Stock Forms Base

Insurance elephantine Travelers is forming a cup-with-handle basal with a 269.05 bargain constituent and is astir 2% distant from that entry.

Travelers banal moved down 0.8% Friday.

Tip: Before making concern decisions, beryllium definite to cheque current marketplace conditions, and use IBD Stock Checkup to spot if your banal gets bully ratings for the astir important cardinal and method criteria. To get ongoing illustration investigation and trading signals, cheque retired the unsocial features, banal lists and illustration annotations astatine MarketSurge, Leaderboard and SwingTrader.

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