Larry Bellehumeur

How Have 'Traditional Defensive Stocks' Done in This Downturn?

Thanks for the question, 174242. I wanted to show the results without and without the worst performer, to eliminate a Single Companies operational issues from throwing off an entire sector's results. The other way that I could have done it was to use many more examples per sector (perhaps as many as 10), but that would have made the article too long. A good example is Wendy's which moved the entire sector down several spots on the chart.

The results at the bottom DO include the worst performer....

Cheers
Larry