The Top 5 Stocks Are Big. And They're Outperforming. This Is Normal
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1 The Top 5 Stocks Are Big. And They're Outperforming. This Is Normal July 27, 2018 by Urban Carmel of The Fat Pitch Summary: The 5 largest stocks comprise about 16% of the S&P 500. That's normal. In fact, the importance of the top 5 stocks was far greater in the 1970s than anytime in the past 5 years. It's true that today's top 5 stocks - known by the acronym FAAMG - have largely outperformed most other stocks. That's how they became today's top 5. Over time, stock indices have typically been driven higher by a small number of stocks. And over time, those leaders have continually changed. This is the story of the stock market. Only one of today's top 5 was also in the top 5 in At the height of the tech bubble in 2000, the top 5 were companies like GE, Exxon, Pfizer, Citigroup and Cisco. Right now, most stocks are doing fine: an index in which non-faamg stocks have a 99% weighting closed at the second highest level in its history today. It's on pace for a 10% gain in Page 1, 2018 Advisor Perspectives, Inc. All rights reserved.
2 Note that this does not mean that the these 5 stocks are equal to half the index. Instead, they equal about 16% of the S&P (from Jack Gavigan). Page 2, 2018 Advisor Perspectives, Inc. All rights reserved.
3 Is this concentration an extreme? The top 5 stocks had a higher weighting in March 2000 and about the same weighting in June These were bull market highs, so this seems worrisome. But the weighting was was also higher in March 2009, a bear market low Page 3, 2018 Advisor Perspectives, Inc. All rights reserved.
4 In fact, over time, the top 5 stocks (gray line) usually have a higher weighting than the smallest half of the index (blue line). The importance of the top 5 stocks was far greater in the 1970s than anytime in the past 5 years (from NDR Research). Page 4, 2018 Advisor Perspectives, Inc. All rights reserved.
5 Now, it's true that the FAAMG stocks have outperformed the rest of the index, and that their weighting has therefore doubled in the past 5 years (from Michael Batnick). Page 5, 2018 Advisor Perspectives, Inc. All rights reserved.
6 But that is not the same as saying the top 5 stocks have doubled their weighting. As NDR's research shows, the top 5 have increased their weighting by about 1/3. What accounts for the difference? Survivorship bias. Today's top 5 have, by definition, largely outperformed most stocks. That's how they became today's top 5. Only 1 of today's top 5 was in the top 5 in 2013: Apple. The other top 5 companies in the US were Exxon, Berkshire, Walmart and GE. Google, Amazon and Facebook were not even the Global top 10 in And previous heavy weights, like Wells Fargo, IBM, Walmart and Chevron have completely fallen off the list. Today's behemoths are obvious only in hindsight Page 6, 2018 Advisor Perspectives, Inc. All rights reserved.
7 This is the story of the stock market. Over time, the leaders change. In 1980, 7 of the top 10 in the US were in the oil and gas industry. At the height of the tech bubble in 2000, the top 5 were companies like GE, Exxon, Pfizer, Citigroup and Cisco (from Ben Carlson). Page 7, 2018 Advisor Perspectives, Inc. All rights reserved.
8 One constant in the stock market is the worry about concentration. It's hard to believe now but the dominance of IBM used to be a concern. Alone, it was more than 6% of the S&P in 1985 and it dominated the computer and software business in ways that seemed insurmountable to competitors and investors at the time. But new leaders emerged, the previous behemoth was put aside and the stock market was largely unaffected (from the Economist). Page 8, 2018 Advisor Perspectives, Inc. All rights reserved.
9 While it might seem unnatural, it's normal for a few companies to account for the majority of the stock market's annual gains. From 1994 to 2014, the top 6 stocks in the SPX (which is only 1% of the total) accounted for an average of 33% of the index's gain in any year; the top 20 stocks (only 4% of the total) accounted for an astounding 68% of the index's gain. In other words, it is common for a relatively few number of stocks to disproportionately carry the indices higher. Collectively, 96% of stocks will often lag. More on this here (from Cliff Asness of AQR Capital Management). Page 9, 2018 Advisor Perspectives, Inc. All rights reserved.
10 Page 10, 2018 Advisor Perspectives, Inc. All rights reserved.
11 In summary, the 5 largest stocks are big (but not unusually so) and outperforming most other stocks (which is how they came to be in the top 5). All of this is normal. Over time, stock indices have typically been driven higher by a small number of stocks. And over time, those leaders have continually change. This is the story of the stock market. Right now, most stocks are doing fine: an index in which non- FAAMG stocks have a 99% weighting closed at the second highest level in its history today. The Fat Pitch Page 11, 2018 Advisor Perspectives, Inc. All rights reserved.
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