Jack Dorsey is co-founder and CEO of two of the most innovative technology companies in the world: social media giant Twitter Inc TWTR 0.33% and mobile payments company Square Inc SQ 0.99%.

Unfortunately for shareholders, the market doesn’t care nearly as much about innovation as it does about dollars and cents.

Even with Square shares are surging 13.2 percent on Thursday following big Q2 earnings and revenue beats, the Jack Dorsey trade is not working very well in 2016.

While the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY 0.06% is up 6.2 percent on the year, Square shares are down 9.7 percent and Twitter has plummeted 22.7 percent year-to-date.

Twitter stock now trades 31.1 percent below its 2013 IPO price. Square has fared much better in its short stint as a public company. The post-earnings spike now has shares trading 31.4 percent above its November 2015 IPO price.

Even though Square’s stock has underperformed so far in 2016, the encouraging Q2 numbers are…

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