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Most bought and sold shares last week
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The most bought and sold stocks last week.
US tech stocks continued to dominate the trading activity last week but we also saw a big jump in interest in two UK stocks.
Nvidia, Micron and SpaceX were the most traded names last week, with Microsoft also making the top five, a picture very similar to the week before.
But soaring up the rankings was easyJet, which took off last week as the airline became the subject of a bidding war by two US private equity groups seeking to take the firm private. However, clients were decisively net sellers with a buy% of just 31% as they took the opportunity of the price spike to take profits as share hit their highest since February 2022.
Also rising up the rankings was AstraZeneca, with clients buying into the weakness as the stock tumbled following news of a disappointing drug trial. AstraZeneca saw the biggest jump in trading activity last week relative the week before, with easyJet coming in second place. A hefty 86% of trades in AZN last week were buys.
Bearish bets were made on a couple of the most popular and most widely held Magnificent 7 names as clients turned net sellers of Meta Platforms and Apple, with just 37% and 28% buy ratios respectively. Another Mag7 name to see selling was Amazon, with clients at 35% net buys.
SK Hynix debuted on the Nasdaq on Friday, with the stock making the most popular list of top traded names. However, the shares tumbled 15% in Seoul on Monday. The SK Hynix price in Seoul corresponds to its US ADR of $122.7 after closing at $168 on Friday.
Texas-based semiconductor company Applied Optoelectronics and Cardiff-based IQE plc, which makes wafer products for manufacturing semiconductors, were among the most popular stocks in terms of buy percentages last week. IQE has jumped 680% in 2026. Clients and analysts retained a bullish bias on SpaceX as the stock closed the week below its IPO opening price.
Here’s a list of our top 20 most traded stocks of the last week with the percentage of buys.
Top Stocks (Most Traded) | Buy% |
NVIDIA Corp. | 58% |
Micron Technology Inc. | 61% |
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. - SpaceX | 73% |
EasyJet Plc | 31% |
Microsoft Corp. | 72% |
Oracle Corp. | 75% |
Intel Corp. | 48% |
Meta Platforms Inc. | 37% |
SanDisk Corp | 54% |
Marvell Technology Inc. | 57% |
AstraZeneca PLC | 86% |
Nebius Group NV | 65% |
Broadcom Inc. | 64% |
Palantir Technologies Inc. | 41% |
Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC | 56% |
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd - ADR | 42% |
Amazon.com Inc. | 35% |
Netflix Inc. | 60% |
Apple Inc. | 28% |
Bloom Energy Corp. | 50% |
Most Popular - strongest buy % among our top 50 traded stocks of the last week.
Top Stocks (Most Popular) | Buy% |
SK Hynix Inc – pre order | 100% |
Applied Optoelectronics Inc. | 88% |
IQE Plc | 86% |
AstraZeneca PLC | 86% |
Oracle Corp. | 75% |
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. - SpaceX | 73% |
Microsoft Corp. | 72% |
Diageo Plc | 71% |
SK Hynix Inc | 71% |
AST SpaceMobile Inc. | 67% |
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