intel stock on friday capped off its best week in more than a year the stock’s surge helped shares break above the 50 mark and also propelled the company out of an exclusive club of sp 500 firms since the market’s pandemic low on march 23 2020 the vast majority of sp 500 constituents sports big gains in fact more than half the component stocks of the sp 500 have doubled since that date the mean price change for shares in the index is 1333