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The stock market has a chaotic start to the first quarter of 2025. Uncertain tariffs, growing concerns about a recession, and inflation has brought stocks to their worst quarterly performance since the 2022 bear market. On March 31, Clearbridge Investment released comments on market performance. Portfolio managers Erica Furfaro and Margaret Vitrano stressed that the S&P 500 fell 4.27%, while the heavy-growth Nasdaq and Russell 1000 growth indexes fell 10.42% and 9.97%, respectively.
The portfolio manager elaborated on quarterly market results, noting that the Russell Growth Index's underperformance kept the Russell Value Index from performing no more than 1,200 basis points, indicating that the growth sector was hit significantly despite the impact of large stocks. Tariffs are just one of the headwinds that affect performance, and the overall background also includes the launch of China LLM DeepSeek, which questioned AI capital expenditures for various large and large stocks. This capital expenditure bubble has infected other "magnificent seven" performances, that is, only one of the "Mag Seven" companies can beat the Russell 1000 index.
Erica Furfaro and Margaret Vitrano pointed out that their larger CAP growth ESG strategy outperforms the benchmark of all uncertainties. Their strategy uses the Russell Growth Index as a benchmark. Managers noted that the strategy revolves around underweight in the MAG Seven and IT sectors. They also stressed that maintaining a balance between the communication between portfolio and strong stocks and stocks between financial services also played a key role in generating more relative returns.
Investment funds also point toward a “turning to the middle” approach, which refers to adjusting their portfolios to focus on any single area and being more balanced among different types of growth companies. Clearbridge reduces its overweight position in healthcare and increases exposure to the IT sector, which was previously underweight. The fund believes that this recalibration positions the portfolio as an economic slowdown. Finally, Erica Furfaro and Margaret Vitrano noted that earnings growth in the first quarter was broader than Mag Seven's Mag Seven and other large stocks outside of other big tech names, providing better revenue. They expect revenue growth for industrial and healthcare companies to start catching up with the technology sector in 2025 unless the economy is in recession.
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Market capitalization: $56.628B
Number of hedge fund holders: 53
Performance at the beginning of the year: 37.04%
Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (NYSE:AEM) is a Canadian-based gold mining company that ranks the highest among the world’s three largest producers. The company specializes in the production of gold and other precious metals. Its operations include multiple mines such as the Canadian Maraming Complex, Lake Duter, Fosterville, Goldex, Kittiere, Los Angeles India, Lalond Complex, McCasar, Meadowbank Complex, Melia Dean and Lime Boat.
On May 2, CIBC analyst Anita Soni maintained a buy rating on the stock, with a target price of $119. Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (NYSE:AEM) has benefited greatly from rising gold prices. In the first quarter of 2025, it produced 874,000 ounces of gold at a cash cost of $903 per ounce, the same cost as it was a year ago. However, gold prices rose by more than $1,000 year-on-year, thus helping the company. This brought earnings per share to $1.53 per share from $0.76 per share in the same period last year.
Additionally, Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (NYSE:AEM) has made record investments in exploration and development, focusing on its five key value drivers. It expands Detour Lake and Canadian Malartic to over one million ounces per year, develops in the construction of Shanghai Beaver, advances Hope Bay, and develops the San Nicolas Copper Project. Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (NYSE:AEM) is by far one of the best performing big stocks to date in 2025.
Overall, AEM Ranked eighth On the list of best stocks with big stocks with best performance so far in 2025. While we acknowledge the potential for AEM to grow, our belief is that AI stocks have greater hope and can offer higher returns in a shorter time frame and do so. AI stocks have risen since the beginning of 2025, while popular AI stocks have lost about 25%. If you are looking for AI stocks that are more promising than AEM but have less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report Cheapest AI stocks.
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