Top 10 leading industry stock groups from Investor's Business Daily 17 February 2009: 1) Metal Ores - gold / silver 2) Schools 3) Medical - Biomedical / Biotechnology 4) Food - flour & grain 5) Medical - genetics 6) Computer software - medical 7) Finance - public investment fund bond 8) Oil & Gas transport / pipeline 9) Oil & Gas refining / marketing 10) Pharmaceuticals
What is the criteria for the industry stock group to be leading? YTD share price returns? Earnings? Debt to equity ratio's in 1997?
I would guess relative strength in price increase (6-month or 12-month). There's more than one way to determine leading groups obviously... http://www2.barchart.com/sectors.asp?base=industry 01. -0.43 Retail - Wholesale Auto Parts 02. -3.38 Schools 03. -5.78 Retail - Home Furniture 04. -13.55 Food - Canned 05. -17.37 Medical Information Systems 06. -18.63 Food - Misc & Diversified 07. -21.77 Finance - Mortgage & Rel Svs 08. -22.04 Finance - Misc Services 09. -22.57 Medical - Outpatient & Hm Care 10. -22.81 Retail - Discount http://www.trending123.com/stocktable/sectorperformance.pl 01. Personal Products 02. Gold 03. Dow Jones 30 Index 04. Industrials 05. Front Runners 06. Foreign Large Blend 07. Education and Training Svcs 08. Drugs - Generic 09. Metals and Mining 10. Drug Stores