Netflix is the S&P 500’s worst performer this week — here are the next 14

Investors remained sour for a second consecutive session on Friday as they continued to digest comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell about the prospect for rapidly rising interest rates. The action had the broad indexes revisiting their mid-March lows:

  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average
    DJIA,
    -2.82%

    fell 981.36 points (or 2.8%) to close at 33,811.40, its lowest closing level since March 15. The Dow fell 1.9% for the week; it is now down 7% for 2022. (All price changes in this article exclude dividends.)

  • The S&P 500
    SPX,
    -2.77%

    was down 2.8% on Friday and also hit its lowest closing level since March 15. The U.S. benchmark index fell 2.8% for the week and is now down 10.4% for 2022.

  • The Nasdaq Composite Index
    COMP,
    -2.55%

    fell 2.5% on Friday, to its lowest level since March 14. The Nasdaq declined 3.8% for the week. It has fallen 17.9% this year.

Read: Fed chief Powell backs moving more quickly on interest-rate hikes

Breaking down the S&P 500

The worst-performing stock among the S&P 500 this week was Netflix Inc.
NFLX,
-1.24%
,
which plunged 35% on Thursday after estimating it would lose $2 million subscribers during the second quarter. Netflix ended the week with a 37% decline.

Read: This math shows why Netflix’s stock price could plunge to $121

All but two of the 11 sectors of the S&P 500 were down for the week, led by communications services, which includes Netflix:

S&P 500 sector

Price change – April 15 through April 22

Price change – April 22

Price change – 2022

Price change – 2021

Communication Services

-7.7%

-3.3%

-22.8%

20.5%

Energy

-4.6%

-2.4%

37.2%

47.7%

Materials

-3.7%

-3.7%

-5.5%

25.0%

Health Care

-3.6%

-3.6%

-5.3%

24.2%

Information Technology

-2.5%

-2.8%

-17.9%

33.4%

Utilities

-2.4%

-1.7%

3.8%

14.0%

Financials

-2.0%

-3.0%

-7.5%

32.5%

Consumer Discretionary

-1.8%

-2.4%

-14.3%

23.7%

Industrials

-1.6%

-2.5%

-7.0%

19.4%

Consumer Staples

0.4%

-1.6%

2.9%

15.6%

Real Estate

1.2%

-1.8%

-4.9%

42.5%

S&P 500

-2.8%

-2.8%

-10.4%

26.9%

Source: FactSet

Communications services sector is also the worst-performing sector so far in 2022.

Here are the week’s worst 15 performers among the S&P 500:

Company

Ticker

Sector

Price change – April 15 through April 22

Price change – April 22

Price change – 2022

Price change – 2021

Netflix Inc.

NFLX,
-1.24%
Communication Services

-36.8%

-1.2%

-64.2%

11.4%

Enphase Energy Inc.

ENPH,
-1.87%
Information Technology

-19.4%

-1.9%

-16.0%

4.3%

HCA Healthcare Inc

HCA,
-21.82%
Health Care

-19.3%

-21.8%

-18.0%

56.2%

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. Series A

WBD,
-4.10%
Communication Services

-17.3%

-4.1%

-12.6%

-21.8%

Dentsply Sirona Inc.

XRAY,
-2.71%
Health Care

-16.5%

-2.7%

-26.6%

6.6%

SolarEdge Technologies Inc.

SEDG,
-1.01%
Information Technology

-16.3%

-1.0%

-10.3%

-12.1%

Match Group Inc.

MTCH,
-0.46%
Communication Services

-16.1%

-0.5%

-41.6%

-12.5%

PayPal Holdings Inc.

PYPL,
-3.77%
Information Technology

-15.9%

-3.8%

-54.4%

-19.5%

Moderna Inc.

MRNA,
-2.88%
Health Care

-15.2%

-2.9%

-44.7%

143.1%

Charles Schwab Corp

SCHW,
-4.03%
Financials

-15.0%

-4.0%

-16.4%

58.6%

Etsy Inc.

ETSY,
-3.32%
Consumer Discretionary

-15.0%

-3.3%

-55.1%

23.1%

Freeport-McMoRan Inc.

FCX,
-6.76%
Materials

-14.8%

-6.8%

0.4%

60.4%

Paramount Global Class B

PARA,
-3.93%
Communication Services

-14.7%

-3.9%

2.8%

-19.0%

Baker Hughes Company Class A

BKR,
-2.16%
Energy

-13.6%

-2.2%

33.8%

15.4%

Meta Platforms Inc. Class A

FB,
-2.11%
Communication Services

-12.4%

-2.1%

-45.3%

23.1%

Source: FactSet

Click the tickers for more about each company, including full coverage of news that may have helped lead to their declines this week.

You should also read Tomi Kilgore’s detailed guide to the wealth of information for free on the MarketWatch quote page.

Looking at the list of this week’s worst performers, two other companies with streaming services were hit hard — the newly formed Warner Brothers Discovery Inc.
WBD,
-4.10%
,
which is shutting down the CNN+ service less than a month after it was launched, and Paramount Global
PARA,
-3.93%
,
which streams through Paramount+.

But several other companies that feature numbers of users or participants in their quarterly financial news releases pulled back significantly, including Match Group Inc.
MTCH,
-0.46%
,
PayPal Holdings Inc.
PYPL,
-3.77%
,
Etsy Inc.
ETSY,
-3.32%

and Facebook’s holding company Meta Platforms Inc.
FB,
-2.11%
.

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