Post Election Stock and Sector Performance

As we pointed out yesterday, the S&P 500 has just had its worst two-day decline since the 1987 crash.  At right we highlight the performance of the ten S&P 500 sectors to show where the biggest declines are coming from.  Financials have fallen the most since the election with a decline of 14.92%.  Financials are followed by Materials and Industrials.  Health Care and Consumer Staples have held up the best, declining by about half of most other sectors.

So which individual stocks have done the best and worst since the election?  For those interested, below we highlight the 25 best and worst performing stocks in the Russell 1,000 over the last two days.

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Comments

[rayman:]

Thanks for the research, but some things missing.....the "worst performers" chart kind of reverses itself before we know the "who" was getting elected. Of course the whole market rallied....GGP was up something like 96% in 2 days or so!!! GGP was actually one of the best performers before/into the election.

Not being a stockpicker though, I owned a DEC 540 Russell 2k call and sold it once the election results were out, then bought the Ultra Russell ETF (UWM) and sold a call against it and covered the short call position recently.

2008 Nov 07 05:26 PM

[WACG:]

This is an example of absolutely meaningless statistics. Why not create a list of best and worst performing stocks since Woody Harelson's Birthday, since Madonna's last hit record, since the Bears last played the Packers...
I could go on but I won't. What makes the "observation" doubly stupid is it does not suggest WHY nor offer any useful possibilities. A total waste of bandwidth!!

2008 Nov 08 09:24 AM

[User 30163:]

Rad is @ 43 cents, not $1.06, so it is not the top performer at all.

2008 Nov 09 02:08 AM