Stock Comparison of the Internet Software Industry and the Internet Hardware Industry Between the Ex-Pandemic Period and Pandemic Period

Abstract

The spreading use of the Internet brings attention to the stock market. More and more investors are willing to invest their stocks in companies working on the Internet, making these companies an inevitable force in the stock markets. However, the pandemic makes the situation of the stock market different. As a result, based on the data from the representative companies, the passage uses the quantitative analysis method to study and compare the stock trend of the representative companies before the pandemic and after the pandemic. By collecting the different data from those six companies firstly, the passage creates the charts to visualize the data and compares the data before the pandemic and those during the pandemic. The result is that the stocks of the software industry have a better performance during the pandemic, and investing in the stocks of hardware industries has more risks than investing in software industries.