This article series provides a monthly dashboard of industries classified by sectors. It compares valuation and quality factors relative to their historical averages in each industry.
Executive summary
Utilities has been a leading sector since the market correction of February 2018 and it seems to go parabolic. The next chart in monthly bars (source: Finviz) shows the impressive rally of the iShares Utilities ETF (IDU) since March 2018.
This rally is not supported by fundamentals. Valuation ratios are very stretched in most of the sector. Dividend yields across utilities indexes have become