Sector Rankings

Energy remains the top-rated sector, but Information Technology, Communication Services, and Financials follow closely behind. These offer a diverse mix of commodity, growth, and cyclical options.

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Energy, Health Care, and Information Technology kick-off 2023 at top of our sector scores. Energy and Health Care have resided in the 1st and 2nd spots, respectively, for the last three months. Info Tech moved up from the 6th spot in October to 3rd this month. Consumer Discretionary, Real Estate, and Utilities are the lowest rated for the second consecutive month.

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Energy, Financials, and Information Technology remain at the top of our sector scores. Real Estate made the largest advance as it moved from the 11th ranking to 8th. Communication Services has now dropped to sit among the bottom three (9th spot), joining Consumer Discretionary and Industrials at 10th and 11th, respectively.

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Financials, Information Technology, and Energy continue to round out the top of our sector scores. Communication Services advanced from 10th to 7th. Real Estate made the largest drop as it moved from the 6th ranking to the worst-rated sector at 11th. Holding steady in the 4th and 8th spots are Health Care and Consumer Discretionary, respectively. Joining Real Estate among the bottom-three ranks are Industrials and Utilities.

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Financials, Energy, and Information Technology remain at the top of our sector scores. Materials advanced up to 5th from 8th. Consumer Discretionary made the largest drop as it moved from 4th down to 8th. Communication Services joins Industrials and Utilities to round out the bottom three worst-rated sectors.

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Three groups bumped up to Attractive this month, Insurance Brokers, Thrifts & Mortgage Finance, and Oil & Gas Exploration & Production.

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Financials, Information Technology, Health Care, and Consumer Discretionary occupy 19 of the 24 seats in the Attractive range at present. Cyclical groups have ranked well since last fall and continue to do so, while Growth-oriented themes have also recently made a comeback—with Health Care returning to the top five of our sector ranks back in August. 

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Financials, Information Technology, and Consumer Discretionary remain at the top of our sector scores. Health Care advanced up to 4th from 6th. Communication Services and Materials both dropped one spot moving to 5th and 6th, respectively. Real Estate, Energy, and Utilities are the three-worst rated, which has been the case for over a year.

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Financials and Consumer Discretionary remain at the top of our sector rankings. Materials dropped out of the top three to 5th, along with Industrials moving from 4th to 7th. Information Technology and Communication Services moved in tandem to the 3rd and 4th spots, from 5th and 6th, respectively. Energy, Real Estate, and Utilities are the three-worst rated, which has been the case for over a year.

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Financials, Consumer Discretionary, and Materials remain as the top-three sectors. Consumer Staples dropped for the second consecutive month, now rated 8th out of the eleven broad sectors; Health Care bumped up to 7th from 8th. Energy, Real Estate, and Utilities are the three-worst rated, which has been the case for over a year.

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Financials, Materials, and Consumer Discretionary maintained their positions as the top three sectors. Industrials improved from 7th to 4th place, ousting Info Tech down to #5. Consumer Staples dropped two spots to rank 7th out of the eleven broad sectors. Health Care kept its place at #8, while Energy, Real Estate, and Utilities maintain their one-plus-year reign as the three worst.

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Financials remains at the top, and Materials strengthened to #2 (it ranked #6 as recently as March). Consumer Discretionary moved back up to 3rd place. Info Tech dropped to 4th—the first time it has ranked below the top-three since October 2019. Health Care continued its trend of deterioration and is now the eighth-lowest-rated of the eleven broad sectors. Energy, Real Estate, and Utilities are the three-worst-ranked sectors—a distinction they have now maintained for roughly a year.

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Financials and Information Technology remained in the top-two spots this month, with Materials moving up from 6th to displace Consumer Discretionary as the 3rd highest rated. Health Care logged the biggest drop in the ratings, moving from 4th down to 7th. Energy, Real Estate, and Utilities maintained their status quo as the three-worst-ranked sectors—now approaching almost a full year at the bottom.

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The top-rated sectors are unchanged this month, with Financials, Information Technology, and Consumer Discretionary rounding out the top-three spots. Health Care moved up from the 6th rank to 4th. Consumer Staples logged the biggest drop in the ratings, moving from 5th spot to 7th this month. Energy, Real Estate, and Utilities maintained their status quo as the three-worst-ranked sectors—now tallying the tenth-consecutive month at the bottom.

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Financials jumped from 5th place to 1st this month—the first time Financials has been the highest-rated since February 2020. Information Technology, Consumer Discretionary, and Communication Services round out the top.

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Information Technology (1st) and Health Care (3rd) continued their long-time status among the top-three-rated sectors (out of eleven broad sectors). Communication Services bumped up to 2nd from 4th; it has not been among the top three since September. Consumer Discretionary moved down one spot to 4th. That sector has been rotating in-and-out of the top-three zone on a regular basis. This is the eighth consecutive month with Real Estate, Energy, and Utilities sharing the bottom-three sector ranks.

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We saw only slight movement among the sector rankings. Health Care, Information Technology, and Consumer Discretionary remained the top-three rated sectors (out of eleven total). The biggest movers this month were (1) Financials moving from the 8th spot to 6th, and (2) Industrials swapping from 6th to 8th. The bottom-three rated sectors, Real Estate, Energy, and Utilities are the same as last month, with Energy returning to the bottom.

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There continues to be little movement among the sector rankings. While Health Care, Information Technology, and Consumer Discretionary remained the top-three rated sectors (out of eleven total), Consumer Staples and Communication Services swapped spots this month and moved into 4th and 5th, respectively. The bottom-three rated sectors, Real Estate, Energy, and Utilities are the same as last month, with Energy returning to the bottom.

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