--- title: Investors From Gen Z to Gen X All Love the Same 7 Stocks description: The favorite stocks of Gen Z, millennial and Gen X investors are the same seven tech companies, including Apple, Tesla and Nvidia. authors: - name: Pete Grieve role: Lead News Reporter url: https://money.com/author/pete-grieve/ bio: Pete Grieve is a personal finance reporter. In his time at Money, Pete has covered everything from car buying to credit cards to the housing market. education: University of Chicago, BA Political Science at_money_since: 2022 articles: 597 covers: - Investing - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Debt - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes social: - https://twitter.com/pete_grieve - https://linkedin.com/in/pete-grieve-b5aa02138 - https://www.facebook.com/petegrieve4 editors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Investing - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2023-05-31T20:07:18.000Z' modified: '2024-01-10T14:51:38.000Z' section: Investing tags: - News - stocks word_count: 370 canonical: https://money.com/favorite-stocks-investors-gen-z-gen-x/ type: NewsArticle source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Vintage photograph of Traders purchasing stock at the New York Stock Exchange Floor in New York City](https://img.money.com/2023/05/News-Favorite-Stocks-Across-Generations.jpg) Gen Z, millennials and Gen X may not see eye to eye on a lot of topics, but here's one thing they all agree on: Their favorite [stocks](https://money.com/how-to-buy-stocks/) to own are the same seven tech companies, including the likes of [Apple](https://money.com/how-to-buy-apple-stock/), [Google](https://money.com/how-to-buy-alphabet-stock/) and red-hot Nvidia. Nvidia has been on a remarkable run this year, with its stock rising 164% year-to-date as it has grown to a [nearly $1 trillion market cap](https://apnews.com/article/nvidia-trillion-artificial-intelligence-ai-chips-c2e5e41634dc4049209d4e1eba3836d8). Nvidia is now among the top five most owned stocks across generations, according to a new report from Apex. The Silicon Valley-based chipmaking company's stock has boomed amid broader stock price growth for chipmakers and software companies at the forefront of [artificial intelligence (AI) innovations](https://money.com/investing-in-ai-stocks/). In addition to Nvidia being one of the most held stocks, a separate report from *[Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-rally-retail-investors-stay-out-growing-slowdown-worries-2023-05-31/)* found that it was one of the top-traded stocks among individual investors in May. Across three generations, the same seven stock tickers account for the largest shares of investors’ holdings. - For [Gen Z](https://money.com/gen-z-start-investing-survey/), millennials and Gen X investors, the top stocks they are holding are the same seven companies: [Tesla](https://money.com/how-to-buy-tesla-stock/), Apple, [Amazon](https://money.com/how-to-buy-amazon-stock/), Microsoft, Nvidia, Alphabet (Google) and Meta (Facebook). - Boomers diverge slightly from their younger counterparts and tend to own more stock in Netflix and AMD, a semiconductor company. Alphabet and Meta rank lower in boomers’ holdings. ## How Gen Z is investing The authors of the Apex report say Gen Z's investing behavior is important to study, even though these young investors (roughly age 27 and under) generally don't have much money in the markets yet compared to older generations - "This is a generation that invests in disruptors and against expected trends — and over $70 trillion in assets will be passed down to this generation in the coming decades," Connor Coughlin, an Apex executive, said in the report. - The three stocks that moved up the most among Gen Z investors in the first quarter of 2023 were [Coinbase](https://money.com/how-to-use-coinbase-beginners/), Marathon Digital (another crypto company) and Crowdstrike, which is a cybersecurity firm. [7 Best Online Trading Platforms of 2023](https://money.com/best-online-stock-trading/) [Investors Are Pessimistic About the Stock Market. 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