The first trading day of May ended with records across the tape — especially in the large-cap and small-cap indexes.
Leadership still leans heavily toward tech and chips, but the list also includes retailers, industrials, steel, financials, and a handful of global ETFs.
Here are today’s record closing highs:
Indexes: Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC), S&P 500 (^GSPC), Nasdaq 100 (^NDX), Russell 2000 (^RUT), PHLX Semiconductor Index (^SOX), S&P SmallCap 600 (^SPCY)
Dow Jones Sectors/Industries: Large-Cap Technology, Computer Hardware, Telecom Equipment, Consumer Services, General Retailers, Heavy Construction, Internet Services, Retailers, Steel, Technology
Large-cap sector ETFs: Technology (XLK)
Small-cap sector ETFs: Small-cap materials (PSCM), Small-cap tech (PSCT)
Industry/Style/Country ETFs: Tanker Shipping (BWET), Emerging Markets (EEM), Taiwan (EWT), South Korea (EWY), Micro-cap (IWC), Mega Cap (MGC), Momentum (MTUM), Semiconductors (SOXX), High Beta (SPHB), Value (VLUE)
Consumer discretionary stocks: Amazon (AMZN), Casey’s (CASY), Ross Stores (ROST)
Financial stocks: Cboe (CBOE), Principal Financial (PFG)
Industrial stocks: Emcor (EME), Comfort Systems (FIX), Jabil (JBL), Quanta Services (PWR), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TEN), Vestas (VTR)
Energy stocks: Liberty Energy (LBRT)
Materials stocks: Linde (LIN), Nucor (NUE), Steel Dynamics (STLD)
Tech stocks: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), AXT (AXTI), Cisco (CSCO), Intel (INTC), Keysight (KEYS), Micron (MU), MaxLinear (MXL), NXP Semiconductors (NXPI), Silicon Motion (SIMO), Sandisk (SNDK), STMicroelectronics (STM), Seagate (STX), Wolfspeed (WOLF)