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StyleBox Update: Still All About Large-Cap And Growth

Published 07/05/2019, 12:04 AM

SP 500 Table

Because of the cacophony of “overvaluation” cries, it always pays to watch where the momentum is in the equity markets versus what is lagging.

This style-box analysis and rotation is another way to manage market risk.

Large-cap growth is still outperforming large-cap value and has been for a while, while mid-cap is closing the performance gap with large caps, but small-cap’s still lag.

“Growth” is still outperforming “value” across all the market-cap segments although small-cap value is also narrowing the performance gap.

Throwing this spreadsheet up every 6 weeks forces me to keep an eye on these asset classes that are outperforming and under-performing. There is a “reversion to the mean” aspect to this analysis.

Summary / Conclusion: I’ll never forget the late 1990’s and the “one-way” direction of large-cap growth and Tech which left everything behind after the Long-Term Capital Management Crisis in the fall of 1998. Smallcaps starting to under-perform dramatically in 1997. Large-cap Growth and Tech became like a vortex that swept everything up in its path as “value” and everything besides the top 10% of the SP 500 by market cap lagged badly.

Small Cap Chart

Gary Morrow, one of my favorite technicians, who posts his work on Twitter (@garysmorrow), LinkedI and This Week on Wall Street, noted recently how the IJS (small-cap value ETF) keeps getting rejected at resistance.

Wait for the breakout for IJS, and then it might be time to own the IJS relative to the large-cap universe.

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It’s interesting that as the SP 500 has made a series of new all-time highs the last weeks, FAANG (Facebook, (NASDAQ:FB), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (GOOG/GOOGL) have not yet made all-time-highs, so we are starting to see the first part of under-performance of large-cap growth ? Let’s see what Q2 ’19 earnings look like for the subset.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) – not part of FAANG – and client’s largest holding – has been keeping up with the all-time-highs in the SP 500.

It’s still a large-cap growth market but hopefully this update will keep you informed of when that changes.

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jim bobloochJul 05, 2019, 16:38
thank you
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