How Layoffs Move Stock Prices

Tracking AI-era layoff announcements and their impact on stock prices at 1 day, 1 week, and 1 month after the announcement.

Avg 1-Day Impact

-0.41%

43 public companies

1-Day Market Cap

+$159.1B

aggregate next-day change

1-Week Market Cap

+$448.4B

aggregate 1-week change

Biggest 1-Day Drop

-24.64%

Cloudflare

Workforce Cut vs Stock Impact

Layoff Events

Date Company Jobs 1d Now
Oct 23, 2026 American Express 3,500 — —
Oct 13, 2026 Kroger 3,000 — —
Sep 4, 2026 Wonder 150 — —
Sep 2, 2026 Uber 3,300 +0.96% -13.28%
Jun 10, 2026 Salesforce 1,000 -5.08% +30.69%
Jun 2, 2026 GitLab 350 -8.46% +60.08%
May 28, 2026 SentinelOne 235 -7.80% +40.11%
May 28, 2026 Wix 1,000 +4.86% +44.16%
May 21, 2026 Groupon 400 +9.30% -9.06%
May 21, 2026 ClickUp 220 — —
May 20, 2026 Meta 8,000 +0.79% +2.05%
May 20, 2026 Intuit 3,000 -23.18% -14.67%
May 14, 2026 Cisco 4,000 5.0% +16.04% +2.59%
May 13, 2026 LinkedIn 875 — —
May 11, 2026 General Motors 600 -2.99% +10.91%
May 8, 2026 Cloudflare 1,100 20.0% -24.64% +9.31%
May 7, 2026 Upwork 145 -12.50% -9.23%
May 7, 2026 BILL Holdings 709 +12.84% +30.32%
May 6, 2026 Coinbase 700 14.0% -2.42% -27.41%
May 5, 2026 PayPal 4,760 -8.18% +13.14%
May 5, 2026 Freshworks 500 -1.00% +63.92%
Apr 23, 2026 UKG 950 9.5% — —
Apr 15, 2026 Snap Inc. 1,000 16.0% +7.50% -4.64%
Apr 6, 2026 Meta 198 0.3% +0.10% +7.06%
Mar 31, 2026 Oracle 30,000 18.5% +4.63% -5.86%
Mar 23, 2026 Dell Technologies 11,000 10.0% +12.20% +169.11%
Mar 20, 2026 Crypto.com 180 12.0% -1.20% -31.38%
Mar 12, 2026 Atlassian 1,600 10.0% -0.32% +154.10%
Mar 9, 2026 Amazon 100 0.0% +0.53% +12.73%
Mar 6, 2026 Morgan Stanley 2,500 3.0% -1.29% +13.38%
Mar 2, 2026 eBay 800 6.5% -1.35% +33.88%
Feb 27, 2026 Block 4,000 40.0% +18.19% +39.78%
Feb 25, 2026 WiseTech 2,000 28.6% -0.42% -14.52%
Feb 24, 2026 Baker McKenzie 1,200 10.0% — —
Feb 23, 2026 Livspace 1,000 12.5% — —
Jan 29, 2026 Expedia 162 1.0% -0.35% +7.59%
Jan 29, 2026 Amazon 16,000 4.6% -1.53% -1.09%
Jan 29, 2026 Dow 4,500 13.0% -0.83% +24.91%
Jan 28, 2026 ASML 1,700 4.0% +0.04% +7.65%
Jan 28, 2026 Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 70 8.8% — —
Jan 27, 2026 Pinterest 700 13.4% -12.90% -25.25%
Jan 22, 2026 Autodesk 1,000 +4.88% -3.04%
Jan 15, 2026 Meta 1,500 1.9% +0.77% -0.09%
Oct 28, 2025 Amazon 14,000 4.0% +1.47% +5.90%
Oct 27, 2025 Chegg 388 45.1% -10.07% -49.45%
Oct 22, 2025 Meta 600 0.8% +0.10% -16.13%
Sep 29, 2025 Accenture 11,000 1.4% +3.19% +8.06%
Aug 15, 2025 Salesforce 4,000 5.3% +4.54% -1.80%
Jul 16, 2025 Scale AI 200 14.3% — —
Jul 2, 2025 Microsoft 9,000 4.0% +1.38% +6.07%
May 13, 2025 Microsoft 6,000 2.6% +0.82% +16.17%
May 7, 2025 CrowdStrike 500 4.9% -3.29% +126.01%
Feb 5, 2025 Workday 1,750 8.5% +6.96% -23.84%