2024-07-17 03:40:00 ET
Summary
- While stocks of large US companies have done well over the last few years, stocks of small US companies are negative.
- Year-to-date, the cap-weighted S&P 500 has returned 3 times the return of the S&P 500 Equal-Weight.
- Although the S&P 500 and a subset of stocks within the S&P 500 have done well, a deeper look within the index and across asset classes shows that most of the market performance has been driven by a small number of stocks.
Originally published on July 12, 2024
Most people who casually follow the financial markets, watch the news, or read online have probably seen some variation of this headline....
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How Are Financial Markets Really Doing?