According to a recent report by the Financial Times, the biggest corporate earners of the COVID-19 era are now facing losses of $1.5tn.
Companies like Peloton and Ring Central, which have been pillars of home fitness and remote working during that difficult time for all Americans, have recorded losses after their exponential and untenable growth.
Big companies see market cap slide
These massive companies played a crucial role in meeting the national and global needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. They were the supply that met the demand of employers needing remote working solutions, the fitness enthusiasts striving to stay healthy, and the logistics providers making deliveries a little easier. Their success is a reflection of our collective resilience and adaptability.
The Financial Times combined statistics from a Bloomberg benchmark report and the data recorded by S&P Global, one of the leading lights in economic analysis. The contrast is startling, but it is not without a huge slice of expected market trajectory.
Companies like Zoom, the remote video and hosting provider, seen an exponential rise in share value to the tune of 768%. No company can keep a margin of growth going that consistently in the face of the world waking up again. This loss relates to a $77bn decline since the end of 2020, according to Bloomberg data compared by the FT.
Employers for example are no longer solely dependent on the remote working environment to deliver their services, so the need placed on Zoom and its contemporaries has lessened. As we reported, the jobs report by the U.S. Department of Labor showed signs of American employment needs stabilizing to pre-pandemic levels.
Steven Blitz, chief US economist at TS Lombard told the FT “Some companies probably thought that (share increase) shock was going to be permanent. Now they’re getting a painful bounceback from that.”
Barry McCarthy, the CEO of Peleton, who had kept the fitness levels of Americans at a dizzying height of profit and growth for the company, has decided to step down. 400 workers will follow McCarthy out the door on the back of around $49bn in market capitalization losses.
Peloton, Tesla, Zoom and Ring Central all played their part in the U.S. economy and labor market staying stable in a hard time for the U.S., but that time has now ended.
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