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6 Jan 2025

Interesting observation from GMO thru Callum Thomas:

"Since 1957, the 10 largest stocks in the S&P 500 have underperformed an equal-weighted index of the remaining 490 stocks by 2.4% per year. But the last decade has been a very notable departure from that trend, with the largest 10 outperforming by a massive 4.9% per year on average.“ It’s rare and bubbly for the top stocks to outperform like this! Source: Thomas Callum, GMO

6 Jan 2025

WALL STREET ANALYSTS' S&P 500 MEDIAN TARGET FOR 2025 IS 6,600

Wall Street expects a 12% increase in the S&P 500 in 2025. As shown by blue bars, Wall Street always projects positive years. This is despite declines in 2000-2002, the 2008 Financial Crisis or 2022. Source: Global Markets Investor, Bloomberg

6 Jan 2025

Don't try to time the market:

Source: LPL research through Brian Feroldi

6 Jan 2025

$SPX is expected to report Y/Y earnings growth of 11.9% for Q4 2024, which is below the estimate of 14.5% on September 30

Source: Factset

3 Jan 2025

The S&P 500's 2.6% decline from Christmas through year-end was the worst end to a year since at least 1952.

Source: Bespoke

2 Jan 2025

The last time just 10 stocks accounted for 38% of total market cap was just before the Great Depression

Source: Goldman, zerohedge

2 Jan 2025

The best performing stock in the S&P 500 last year...

Source: Charlie Bilello

1 Jan 2025

S&P500's Biggest Winners of 2024

source: yahoo!finance

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