2020 YTD Stock Market Winners and Losers

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Nine Style Boxes:

Average fund performance YTD as of 10/19/2020

Huge performance gap between Growth and Value

That’s a > 3,200 bps difference between large cap growth and large cap value! When growth stocks are the place to be, value is just not going to cut it.

The biggest discrepancies in the sector weightings giving large cap growth a huge advantage over large cap value are Technology (32% vs. 12%) and Comm Svcs (13.3% vs. 8.6%). On the other hand, large cap value was weighed down by being overweight Financial Services (18% vs. 10%) and Industrials (11.7% vs. 5.7%).

Mid Cap Growth vs. Mid Cap Value also had similar results and sector weighting differences, except another standout comparison comes in the way of Healthcare (Growth at 22% vs. Value at 10%).

When we look at Small Cap Growth vs. Small Cap Value, the sector weighting differences are much greater. Healthcare shows the largest difference between growth and value (26% vs. 5%), followed by Technology (25% vs. 9%).

It’s not difficult to see why there are huge differences between growth and value in 2020. Just take a look at some of the household name large cap growth stocks hitting it out of the park YTD (as of 10/20/2020):

Zoom Communications + 689% (Industry: Telecomm Services)
Tesla +404% (Industry: Auto Manufacturer)
Wayfair Inc +226% (Industry: Internet Retail)
DocuSign Inc +207% (Industry: Software Application)
Square Inc +197% (Industry: Credit Services)

Compare those YTD results with the biggest losers in large cap value:

Boeing -48% (Industry: Aerospace and Defense)
Exxon Mobil -48% (Industry: Oil & Gas Integrated)
ConocoPhillips -47% (Industry: Oil & Gas E&P)
Citigroup -44% (Industry: Banks - Diversified)
Chevron -37% (Industry: Oil & Gas Integrated)

In 2020, being able to actively overweight growth vs. value and large vs. small has proven to be a winning strategy. When the market creates these huge differences within the nine style boxes, tactical and actively managed investment strategies may provide a performance edge against a typical buy and hold methodology.

(Stock performance date source: Morningstar)

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