A. amongst canadian banks. TD did so much better than other big 5 peers ?
B. amongst the US big 5, google outperformed the others by so much?
did TD and Google do something in particular?
We can't quite explain the economy and the market in this forum, and the topic fills hundred of books. The market is not always rational, certainly. But TD and GOOG are fairly easily explained. TD shares were crushed a year ago after the bank's big money-laundering scandal and the regulators giant fine imposed on the company. Investors believed growth would slow materially, and it did not. So it 'bounced' much higher from a lower valuation. It also had lower loan losses than expected. GOOG is similar. Investors sold it down very sharply, believing Chat GPT would kill its search monoploy. But its release of Gemini 3 has put it back into the AI lead and shares have responded accordingly.
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