{
  "id": 3754093,
  "title": "MAGS Is Treading Water This Year. Here's Why the Smartest Investors Are Still Buying.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/mags-is-treading-water-this-year-heres-why-the-smartest-investors-are-3754093",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-27T13:10:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Motley Fool",
    "slug": "motley-fool",
    "url": "https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/08/27/mags-treading-water-2026-why-smart-invest/?source=iedfolrf0000001"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Magnificent Seven stocks have propelled the market's current bull market. In April 2023, Roundhill Financial introduced the first ETF to focus exclusively on these seven megacaps: Nvidia (NVDA), Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (AAPL), Alphabet (GOOG), Meta (META), Amazon (AMZN), and Tesla (TSLA). The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF (MAGS) has delivered impressive returns over the past three years, attaining 55% annualized gains in 2023, 62% in 2024, and 21% in 2025, with a three-year annualized return of 31% as of August 25. However, this year, MAGS has struggled to make a significant impact, only managing a 2% return year to date, while the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 have each climbed 12%.",
  "summary": "The ETF invests only in \"Magnificent Seven\" stocks.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}