"April 7" One Year Anniversary: Nearly 2,000 Stocks Still Not Back to Profitability

Ask AI · How will the progress of the U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement affect the global energy market?

On April 8, this is the deadline set by Trump for the “bombing Iran’s energy facilities.” One month after this round of Middle East localized conflict broke out, another key turning point has arrived.

After a year’s wait, global markets are once again braced for an important outcome amid large fluctuations—last time, they were waiting for the final verdict on tit-for-tat tariffs; this time, they are waiting to see whether the U.S. and Iran can reach a ceasefire agreement.

It also depends on whether key transportation chokepoints can resume operations, whether global energy supply can return to normal, and whether concerns about economic “stagflation” can be dispelled. For A-shares, it also has to do with whether market risk appetite will rebound, whether energy and transportation costs for downstream companies will fall, and so on.

As of the close of trading on April 7, among 5,497 stocks in the entire A-share market, more than 1,990 stocks had prices below their April 7, 2025 closing prices. At that time, the Shanghai Composite Index hit a low of 3,040 points. Judging by the median, the median percentage gain across the range of individual stocks in the entire market was +10.80%.

In the same period, the performance of major broad-market indices was as follows: the Shanghai Composite Index’s range gain was +16.40%, the CSI 300 Index’s range gain was +15.00%, and the ChiNext Index recorded the highest range gain, at +53.04%.

The reason this situation occurs—where individual stocks generally don’t outperform the indices—is inseparable from structural trends in the market, rapid sector rotation, and high volatility in individual stocks. For ordinary individual investors, the difficulty of picking stocks and selecting sectors is indeed relatively high. Through a balanced benchmark index—the CSI 300 Index—arriving at a roughly correct answer, or “the optimal solution.”

The CSI 300 Index includes 300 of the most representative securities across the Shanghai and Shenzhen markets. It covers China’s advantageous industries such as technology manufacturing and power equipment, as well as domestic-demand sectors such as consumption and finance. With strong performance certainty, stable operations, and a high dividend yield. Currently, there are 30 ETFs tracking the CSI 300 Index. Among them, the Huaxia CSI 300 ETF (510330.SH) is large in scale and has better liquidity, with a management fee of 0.15% per year (the lowest tier across the entire market). The on the counter off-exchange linked fund is the Huaxia CSI 300 ETF Linked C (005658.OF), which offers no redemption fee for holdings over 7 days.

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