U.S. Large Caps Continue To Trail Their Small Cap Peers
With the recent winning streak of the S&P 500 we've seen more attention paid to large cap names. Some have said that the focus of investors has shifted from small caps to safer large caps. The three major S&P indices are shown below for the last year:
We took a look at a sample of the fifty largest and fifty smallest stocks in the S&P 500 to see where these gains are occurring. We would assume that if there is a true shift from small to large, then the largest stocks in the S&P 500 would outperform, right? Below we have sampled the 50 largest and smallest names using Price, Cap and Dollar weights, in each case the larger stocks have underperformed by half.
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This article has 1 comment:
Merrifield
Small businesses with less than 100 empoyees not only create new jobs, but are the innovators that create new wealth. (About 95% of all household American wealth has been generated since 1982...now about $65 trillion, up from $3 trillion in 1982). It's no wonder that your data reflect this disparity, which is much more pervasive than is generally realizes....or can be measured by our current Government data, which largely come from about 150,000 big businesses.
I wish you would expand on your observations.
Bruce Merrifield