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Top trades by New Zealand Sharesight users in 2024

by Stephanie Stefanovic, Content Manager, Sharesight | Dec 19th 2024

Welcome to the 2024 edition of our New Zealand trading snapshot, where we dive into this year’s top trades by Sharesight users. Below we will look at the top trades overall, plus the top trades in individual stocks, which allows us to observe the broader investment trends by New Zealand Sharesight users, while also giving us an opportunity to zoom into the most popular stocks and the market-moving news behind them.

Top trades by New Zealand investors in 2024

2024 Top 20 NZ trades Note: To get a closer look at this chart, you can right-click and open the image in a new tab (for desktop) or press-hold and download the image or open it in a web browser (for mobile).

In 2024, the top trades were led primarily by buy trades in the Smartshares US 500 ETF (NZX: USF), followed by NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA). It was a strong year for ETF trading overall, with 7 of the top 20 trades belonging to ETFs. It should be noted that the majority of trades overall were buy trades, which is typical of an ETF-heavy snapshot. There were no stocks with a higher proportion of sell trades than buy trades, however the stocks with the highest proportion of sell trades all belonged to the tech sector, which had a strong year in 2024 due to the hype around AI.

Most-traded stocks by New Zealand investors in 2024

2024 Top 20 NZ shares Note: To get a closer look at this chart, you can right-click and open the image in a new tab (for desktop) or press-hold and download the image or open it in a web browser (for mobile).

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA)

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA)

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)

Infratil (NZX: IFT)

Air New Zealand (NZX: AIR)

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN)

Spark NZ (NZX: SPK)

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