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What is a sector? A sector is a broad group of industries in an economy. For example, finance is one sector of the economy that might include banks, investment banks, pension funds, mutual funds and so on. Transportation can be another sector of the economy and it can include the airlines, railways, trucking services and so on. Consumer goods and services can be another sector of the economy. What is an industry group? An industry group is a smaller more specific grouping of companies in a sector. A subgroup will be even a more specific subcategory of companies in an industry group. Confused? Let’s make it clear with an example. Viacom is a well known name. Viacom is film, TV and radio company.So the sector of Viacom is Entertainment and Leisure industry. Within that industry the group is Media and within that group, the subgroup is TV/Radio.
There are something like 200 industry groups in US economy. Stocks in the same sector do not behave in an indentical manner. So, if a sector is outperforming the market, there will be groups and subgroups that will be outperforming in that sector while there will be groups and subgroups that might be showing weak performance in the sector. Looking at the S&P 500 index does not give you any clue about the performance of the different sector, industries and sub groups in the market. S&P 500 only shows the combined performance of 500 stocks that are included in it.
Stock investing is infact an art. First you need to find the hottest performing industry groups. Then you should search the sub groups in that industry group. Finally drill down to those stocks that are having a much higher return as compared to the market return . You will need to learn the different industry groups. I give you an example. Let’s take the medical industry in the economy. It is a huge sector of the economy. Now this sector can be further divided into indusry groups. Hospital companies, home nursing, generic drug companies. genetics, dental,HMOs, biotech and so on are some of the groups within the broader medical industry .
