A new study has revealed the top five most Googled S&P 500 stocks in the UK.
The Most Googled S&P 500 Stocks In The UK
1. Tesla
Coming in at number one is the electric car manufacturer Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), with 260,180 Google searches a month on average in the UK. The American multinational automotive and clean energy company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with Elon Musk as its CEO.
According to Tesla’s latest financial reports, the company’s current revenue is $86.03 billion, a $4.57 billion increase from 2022.
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2. Meta Platforms
Number two on the list is Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META), formally known as Facebook, with 84,310 searches a month on average and current revenue of $117.34 billion, $31.31 billion more than Tesla.
The American multinational technology company has Mark Zuckerberg as the CEO and is based in Menlo Park, California. Business Insider claims that Meta’s CTO said that the leaders were spending most of their time on generative AI earlier this month.
3. NVIDIA Corp
In third place is NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA), which is searched 58,250 times a month. Nvidia Corporation is one of the biggest developers of graphics processors and chipsets for personal computers and game consoles.
As of 2023, NVIDIA has just over 26,000 employees worldwide and has a revenue of $26.97 billion, a decrease of $1.59 billion from last year.
4. Alphabet Inc
Number four is Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), which is searched 35,840 times a month. The headquarters is in Mountain View in Silicon Valley, and Sundar Pichai is the company’s CEO. Google’s current revenue is $284.61 billion, a $1.78 billion increase from last year.
5. Amazon.com
Finally, in the UK’s fifth most googled stock is Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), with 27,720 times a month on average. The Jeff Bezos-founded company is led by Andy Jassy as a CEO, and has current revenue of $513.98 billion, which is larger than the combined revenues of the UK’s top four most googled companies.
The Focus On AI
A spokesperson for CMC Markets said: “With more and more people having more access to the latest information about stocks in easily digestible forms via social media platforms like TikTok, it has become easier than ever to delve into the world of trading, and this data offers a fascinating insight into which companies attract the most interest from the British public.
Technology companies are prominent among the UK’s most googled stocks, and as the focus on artificial intelligence continues to intensify, it will be interesting to see how each company’s share price fluctuates depending on how they react to advances in the technology, and how it might disrupt their respective industries.”
