Weighting
Index Sector Weights and Comparisons With Sales and Earnings
New series compares index industry sector weights with sales and earnings contributions.
Tech Watch…..Strong Bounce In April
Tech stocks came roaring back in April (Info Tech sector up 22%), but don’t expect another parabolic rise!
Tech Stocks Approaching "Normal" Valuations
S&P 500 tech weighting has plunged 43% from February 2000’s peak of 34%. Now at 19%, but expect it may have further to fall in 2001.
Tech Stocks: Valuation Considerations Now
The underlying decline in valuations and tech stock weightings in the cap weighted market indices probably has further to go in 2001.
Large Cap Versus Small Cap: Inside The S&P 500
Poor performance by Large cap technology issues had a very negative impact on S&P 500 cap weighted performers in 2000.
S&P Technology Weighting Falling
S&P Technology Weighting has fallen to about 21.9% from nearly 35% in February. Expect it to fall to 20% or below (recession?) within the next year.
Technology: What’s The Downside?
November was Tech nightmare but we think about two-thirds of decline is behind us.
Technology: What’s The Downside?
Not even the mighty techs are immune to saturation, overcapacity, cyclicality, and fierce competition.
1999 Performance: Big Caps Versus Small Caps
Small cap performance actually nosed out Big Cap +19.6 for Russell 2000 and +19.5% for S&P 500 (price only). Who would have believed it?
The Dow Jones Industrial Index...Before and After
Dow Jones gets a Tech infusion. Still not up to S&P 500 Tech weight.
Beating The S&P 500...Q3 Update
Large Cap and Growth was where you needed to be in the first nine months of 1999.
The Dichotomy Continues...Big Cap Versus Small Cap
Q1 1999 following the same market script of 1995-1998, with big cap stocks, especially Nifty Fifty types, dominating smaller companies in terms of market performance.
Small Caps Relatively Cheap, But….
Small caps cheap relative to big caps, but neither is cheap on absolute basis...Unweighted to weighted P/E comparison at record discount.
DJIA Economic Sector Weightings…A Different Perspective
The four March changes in DJIA components shifted sector weightings for the index, most significantly in Energy, Financial, Healthcare and Technology.
A Sector Dissection of the S&P 500
Jim Floyd’s breakdown of eleven broad sectors within the S&P 500. The S&P 500 experienced 24 component stock changes during 1996. New component additions were not balanced within the sectors by the stock deletions.
The Underowned and Overowned
Each quarter, Barron’s publishes an industry and sector breakdown of institutional holdings, as tabulated by Indata. This is the first time we have published this work, but we have been using it as a factor in our Sector Selection Scores.
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