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There is an overwhelming amount of data worth charting in the market today.
In some ways, as someone whose job it is to visualize this data, that makes my life easier.
That’s because I don’t have to go drilling into industry groups running PE ratio scans and Z-scores to find interesting stuff.
In 2026, the signal is instead coming from the price movement of the 11 sectors within the S&P 500.
That data is easy to find. Lucky me.
The tricky part then becomes presenting the data.
I could slap some line charts together, but that’s not why you’re here.
You’re here to see me visualize the data in a way you haven’t considered yet.
It’s easier said than done, but my mission is to deliver on that.
Here’s today’s attempt.
Below you’re looking at the share of companies by S&P 500 sector that fall into each YTD return decile.
Let me walk you through this.
If you look all the way to the right, in decile 10, that is the highest “return bucket” on the chart. 27% of companies in the Materials Sector (the dark blue bar on the top) fall into this top decile of YTD performance.
Conversely, if you look all the way to the left, in decile 1, that is the lowest “return bucket” on the chart. 29% of companies in the Tech Sector fall into this bottom decile of YTD performance.
The takeaway of the chart is clear: companies within the Energy, Materials, Staples, and Industrials sectors are are crushing it while companies in Comm Services and Financials are lagging. Tech is mostly bad (50% of companies are either in the worst or second to worst decile of YTD performance).
The remaining sector representation by decile of YTD performance can be seen in the chart. Pause and take a look. There’s a lot being shown in this one chart.
That’s all for today. Thank you, as always, for reading!