Consumer Discretionary vs. Technology: Who Leads in 2025?Introduction:
This week, we’re analyzing two major growth-oriented sectors—consumer discretionary (XLY) and technology (XLK)—to uncover which might lead the market in 2025. The ratio between these sectors offers key insights into their relative strength and momentum, helping investors identify where
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About SPDR Select Sector Fund - Consumer Discretionary
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Inception date
Dec 16, 1998
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Dividend treatment
Distributes
Distribution tax treatment
Qualified dividends
Income tax type
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Primary advisor
SSgA Funds Management, Inc.
Distributor
ALPS Distributors, Inc.
XLY is a portfolio of US large-cap consumer-discretionary stocks. XLY's basket of stocks represents the sector well, despite concentration in the largest names. As a part of the Select Sector SPDR suite, the fund pulls its holdings from the S&P 500, which differs from the broad-market universe used by competing funds in that it excludes small-caps and most midcaps. The resulting basket contains just a fraction of the names held by our more diverse benchmark, however, industry biases are small and XLY tends to provide market performance. The fund's average market cap is higher than our benchmarks, but overall XLY provides solid exposure.
Classification
What's in the fund
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Retail Trade
Consumer Services
Consumer Durables
Stock breakdown by region
Volatility in Consumer Discretionary driven by AMZN and TSLA.The heavy presence of AMZN and TSLA in Consumer Discretionary makes the sector more volatile. However, I don't see an issue with the trend. Buyers may view levels up to $192.55 as a buying opportunity, especially with AMZN’s high potential from its broad range of innovative ventures. Although TSLA r
Bull markets with staples outperforming discretionaries?Well history says yes, as it has happened before
History also says that the times it happened it lasted for 10 to 16 months, and this time it has lasted for 11 months
The key here is that normally, when the $XLY/ AMEX:XLP ratio goes up then the SP:SPX goes up too, but this does not mean that th
XLY Weekly ChartIt's crazy how this sector hasn't fully recovered from its fall in 2021. Some of the laggards in the top 10 are TSLA, NKE, SBUX. The other 6 companies have have recovered pretty well from their 2021 drops in price, and some have gone past to make new all times highs. I'm bias about this sector sim
The End of a Tesla Era! Tesla missed on earnings. Huge decline for this leading EV stock.
Tesla was already getting oversold on the daily chart, & now with this decline its a salavating opportunity for day traders.
I still think the true swing trade level is a bit lower from here. This weekly close will tell us more.
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