diff --git a/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Diagnostics/Stopwatch.cs b/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Diagnostics/Stopwatch.cs
index 33f5998a96248c..c73d407b1c7f5c 100644
--- a/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Diagnostics/Stopwatch.cs
+++ b/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Diagnostics/Stopwatch.cs
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@
 
 namespace System.Diagnostics
 {
-    // This class uses high-resolution performance counter if the installed
-    // hardware supports it. Otherwise, the class will fall back to DateTime
-    // and uses ticks as a measurement.
-
     [DebuggerDisplay("{DebuggerDisplay,nq}")]
     public partial class Stopwatch
     {
@@ -14,21 +10,15 @@ public partial class Stopwatch
         private long _startTimeStamp;
         private bool _isRunning;
 
-        // "Frequency" stores the frequency of the high-resolution performance counter,
-        // if one exists. Otherwise it will store TicksPerSecond.
-        // The frequency cannot change while the system is running,
-        // so we only need to initialize it once.
         public static readonly long Frequency = QueryPerformanceFrequency();
         public static readonly bool IsHighResolution = true;
 
         // performance-counter frequency, in counts per ticks.
-        // This can speed up conversion from high frequency performance-counter
-        // to ticks.
+        // This can speed up conversion to ticks.
         private static readonly double s_tickFrequency = (double)TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond / Frequency;
 
         public Stopwatch()
         {
-            Reset();
         }
 
         public void Start()
@@ -43,7 +33,7 @@ public void Start()
 
         public static Stopwatch StartNew()
         {
-            Stopwatch s = new Stopwatch();
+            Stopwatch s = new();
             s.Start();
             return s;
         }
@@ -53,29 +43,16 @@ public void Stop()
             // Calling stop on a stopped Stopwatch is a no-op.
             if (_isRunning)
             {
-                long endTimeStamp = GetTimestamp();
-                long elapsedThisPeriod = endTimeStamp - _startTimeStamp;
-                _elapsed += elapsedThisPeriod;
+                _elapsed += GetTimestamp() - _startTimeStamp;
                 _isRunning = false;
-
-                if (_elapsed < 0)
-                {
-                    // When measuring small time periods the Stopwatch.Elapsed*
-                    // properties can return negative values.  This is due to
-                    // bugs in the basic input/output system (BIOS) or the hardware
-                    // abstraction layer (HAL) on machines with variable-speed CPUs
-                    // (e.g. Intel SpeedStep).
-
-                    _elapsed = 0;
-                }
             }
         }
 
         public void Reset()
         {
             _elapsed = 0;
-            _isRunning = false;
             _startTimeStamp = 0;
+            _isRunning = false;
         }
 
         // Convenience method for replacing {sw.Reset(); sw.Start();} with a single sw.Restart()
@@ -94,32 +71,30 @@ public void Restart()
         /// </returns>
         public override string ToString() => Elapsed.ToString();
 
-        public bool IsRunning
-        {
-            get { return _isRunning; }
-        }
+        public bool IsRunning => _isRunning;
 
-        public TimeSpan Elapsed
-        {
-            get { return new TimeSpan(GetElapsedDateTimeTicks()); }
-        }
+        public TimeSpan Elapsed => new(ElapsedTimeSpanTicks);
 
-        public long ElapsedMilliseconds
-        {
-            get { return GetElapsedDateTimeTicks() / TimeSpan.TicksPerMillisecond; }
-        }
+        public long ElapsedMilliseconds => ElapsedTimeSpanTicks / TimeSpan.TicksPerMillisecond;
 
         public long ElapsedTicks
         {
-            get { return GetRawElapsedTicks(); }
-        }
+            get
+            {
+                long timeElapsed = _elapsed;
 
-        public static long GetTimestamp()
-        {
-            Debug.Assert(IsHighResolution);
-            return QueryPerformanceCounter();
+                // If the Stopwatch is running, add elapsed time since the Stopwatch is started last time.
+                if (_isRunning)
+                {
+                    timeElapsed += GetTimestamp() - _startTimeStamp;
+                }
+
+                return timeElapsed;
+            }
         }
 
+        public static long GetTimestamp() => QueryPerformanceCounter();
+
         /// <summary>Gets the elapsed time since the <paramref name="startingTimestamp"/> value retrieved using <see cref="GetTimestamp"/>.</summary>
         /// <param name="startingTimestamp">The timestamp marking the beginning of the time period.</param>
         /// <returns>A <see cref="TimeSpan"/> for the elapsed time between the starting timestamp and the time of this call.</returns>
@@ -131,31 +106,9 @@ public static TimeSpan GetElapsedTime(long startingTimestamp) =>
         /// <param name="endingTimestamp">The timestamp marking the end of the time period.</param>
         /// <returns>A <see cref="TimeSpan"/> for the elapsed time between the starting and ending timestamps.</returns>
         public static TimeSpan GetElapsedTime(long startingTimestamp, long endingTimestamp) =>
-            new TimeSpan((long)((endingTimestamp - startingTimestamp) * s_tickFrequency));
-
-        // Get the elapsed ticks.
-        private long GetRawElapsedTicks()
-        {
-            long timeElapsed = _elapsed;
+            new((long)((endingTimestamp - startingTimestamp) * s_tickFrequency));
 
-            if (_isRunning)
-            {
-                // If the Stopwatch is running, add elapsed time since
-                // the Stopwatch is started last time.
-                long currentTimeStamp = GetTimestamp();
-                long elapsedUntilNow = currentTimeStamp - _startTimeStamp;
-                timeElapsed += elapsedUntilNow;
-            }
-            return timeElapsed;
-        }
-
-        // Get the elapsed ticks.
-        private long GetElapsedDateTimeTicks()
-        {
-            Debug.Assert(IsHighResolution);
-            // convert high resolution perf counter to DateTime ticks
-            return unchecked((long)(GetRawElapsedTicks() * s_tickFrequency));
-        }
+        private long ElapsedTimeSpanTicks => (long)(ElapsedTicks * s_tickFrequency);
 
         private string DebuggerDisplay => $"{Elapsed} (IsRunning = {_isRunning})";
     }