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US sector performance today
Eleven sectors, one row each. Today's move tells you what is happening; the distance from the 52-week high and the position against the 200-day average tell you whether it matters, and those two columns frequently disagree with the first.
11 sectors · snapshot from within the last 5 minutes
| Sector | Today | Level | From 52w high | 52-week range | vs 200-day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MaterialsXLB · Select Sector SPDR | +1.69% | 52.95 | -2.3% | +6.0% | |
| Communication servicesXLC · Select Sector SPDR | +1.39% | 112.42 | -6.6% | -1.4% | |
| FinancialsXLF · Select Sector SPDR | +0.80% | 57.66 | -1.3% | +8.0% | |
| Health careXLV · Select Sector SPDR | +0.75% | 172.95 | -2.1% | +11.5% | |
| EnergyXLE · Select Sector SPDR | +0.51% | 65.10 | -0.4% | +19.4% | |
| Consumer staplesXLP · Select Sector SPDR | +0.33% | 85.53 | -5.1% | +2.8% | |
| UtilitiesXLU · Select Sector SPDR | +0.26% | 42.67 | -10.7% | -4.5% | |
| Consumer discretionaryXLY · Select Sector SPDR | +0.24% | 114.86 | -8.1% | -1.8% | |
| IndustrialsXLI · Select Sector SPDR | +0.03% | 172.78 | -8.2% | +1.4% | |
| TechnologyXLK · Select Sector SPDR | -0.02% | 183.60 | -7.6% | +15.0% | |
| Real estateXLRE · Select Sector SPDR | -0.70% | 43.73 | -5.9% | +1.6% |
What a sector table is actually telling you
The spread between the best and worst sector today is 2.39% — that number, rather than the index's own move, is the one that says whether this was a day the market moved together or a day money moved between things. A flat index with a four-point spread underneath it is a busy day; a flat index with a half-point spread is a quiet one.
Two columns here outlast the session. 8 of 11 sectors are currently above their 200-day average and 4 are within 5% of a 52-week high. Those figures change slowly and describe the market's actual condition; the daily column describes today's weather. When the two disagree — a sector leading today from 20% below its high — the daily number is the less informative of the two.
The eleven sectors are exhaustive and mutually exclusive by construction, so every S&P 500 constituent sits in exactly one of these rows. What the table is not is an equal-weighted view of the market: technology is several times the index weight of materials or utilities, so eleven rows of equal visual size flatten a distribution that is anything but flat. A sector move matters to the index roughly in proportion to a weight this table does not show.
Sector rotation is also slower than a daily table implies. Leadership persists over months, not sessions, and reading one day's ranking as a rotation signal is the most common way this data gets misused. The useful reading is the accumulation: which names keep appearing at the top across weeks, and whether the 200-day column is moving with them.
Questions people ask about this
- Why track sectors through ETFs rather than the sector indices?
- Because the SPDR sector funds are what actually trades. They carry real intraday prices, real volume and a real 52-week range, where a sector index level is a computed figure that several vendors calculate slightly differently. The fund's return also differs marginally from its index by the expense ratio and by tracking error, which is stated here rather than glossed over.
- What does the 200-day column tell me that today's move does not?
- Whether the move is a change of direction or a continuation of one. A sector up 2% today but still 15% below its 52-week high and beneath its 200-day average is bouncing inside a decline; the same 2% in a sector sitting at a new high is something else. One day of performance cannot distinguish those two, and most sector tables show only the one day.
- Do these eleven sectors cover the whole market?
- They cover the whole S&P 500 — the eleven GICS sectors are exhaustive and mutually exclusive by construction, so every constituent sits in exactly one. They do not cover small caps, and they do not weight equally: technology is a far larger share of the index than materials or utilities, so an equal-looking table of eleven rows is not an equal-weighted view of the market.
Sources and method
- Data
- Financial Modeling Prep — Live quotes for the eleven Select Sector SPDR ETFs, retrieved through Plutux's own data service in a single batched request.
- State Street Global Advisors — Issuer of the Select Sector SPDR funds used here as the sector proxies.
- GICS (S&P Dow Jones Indices and MSCI) — The classification standard that defines the eleven sectors.
- How it was calculated
- One quote per sector ETF. Today's change is against the previous close as reported by the feed. The 52-week column is the current price against the trailing 52-week high; the 200-day column is the current price against the 200-day simple moving average, both as supplied with the quote. Fund returns, not index returns.
- How often it changes
- Refreshed through the US session. The snapshot is cached for five minutes, so figures can be up to five minutes behind the market.
- Citing this page
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Plutux. "US sector performance today." https://plutux.ai/ko/resources/tools/sector-performance
Historical figures for information only — not investment advice, and not a forecast.
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