How Are 9 Out of the 11 Stock Market Sectors Outperforming the S&P 500 in 2025?

There are plenty of ways to categorize stocks. Some investors think of growth stocks versus value or dividend stocks. Or megacap, large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap if you sort by market capitalization. There's also a more formal organization technique based on stock market sectors.According to the most commonly used classification system, there are 11 stock market sectors. At the time of this writing, nine of those sectors are beating the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) year to date (YTD). You may be wondering how that is possible, given that the S&P 500 is one of the most well-known stock market indexes. The S&P 500 represents the most valuable U.S. companies, but in some ways, it doesn't represent the broader stock market well.Here's why so many sectors are beating the S&P 500 YTD, what it means for your portfolio, and why it's important to understand the composition of exchange-traded-funds (ETFs) or index funds before you buy them.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool