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Heavy Weights: The Real Story Behind Current Market Concentration

Financial Symmetry

The previous high mark over this period, around the height of the dot-com era in early 2000, appears small in comparison. companies from the IT, consumer discretionary, and communication sectors: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Tesla. Data for Panel A and Panel B from 1/1/2000 12/31/2024. If we compare U.S.

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SPY vs. QQQ: Battle of the ETF Behemoths

Validea

In this post, we break down the most important differences between SPY and QQQ across key dimensions: performance, volatility, valuation, sector exposure, factor makeup, and fees. Using Portfolio Visualizer data from 2000 to May 2025, QQQ outperformed SPY slightly with a 7.77% annualized return vs. 7.52%. Communication Services 9.6%

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Present at the Creation: Early-Stage Venture Capital

Brown Advisory

Less than two years later, Palo Alto Networks purchased the company for $200 million—a more than 25-fold surge in valuation. In November 2015, Square, a San Francisco-based creator of mobile payment technology, went public at $9 per share and immediately rocketed 45% to a valuation of more than $4 billion. Not necessarily.

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Small Caps: The Big Picture

Brown Advisory

returns over the past 12 months—the second best in the history of the Russell 2000 ® Index—and on the heels of one of the worst quarters since inception in 1984 (-30.6% The strong price appreciation has resulted in a commensurate rise in valuations and a tsunami of new deal issuance in these areas. GICS Sectors. The Smallest Lead.

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Small Caps: The Big Picture

Brown Advisory

returns over the past 12 months—the second best in the history of the Russell 2000 ® Index—and on the heels of one of the worst quarters since inception in 1984 (-30.6% The strong price appreciation has resulted in a commensurate rise in valuations and a tsunami of new deal issuance in these areas. Small Caps: The Big Picture.

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Weekly Market Insights – October 23, 2023

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

for the first time since 2007, while mortgage rates hit 8%–the highest level since mid-2000. This Week: Companies Reporting Earnings Tuesday: Microsoft Corporation (MSFT), General Electric Company (GE), Verizon Communications, Inc. (VZ), By mid-week, stocks turned lower as the 10-year Treasury yield moved above 4.9%

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CIO Roundtable: Inflation, “Greenflation” and Tech Regulation

Brown Advisory

The discussion dissects technology sector valuations, what rising rates could mean for markets and the most important investment trends in the decade ahead. Any business or tax discussion contained in this communication is not intended as a thorough, in-depth analysis of specific issues.

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