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Understand the 800-Pound Gorillas in the S&P 500

December 27, 2021 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

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OK, this stock market is top heavy. Remember, you buy the stock market when you buy a 500 index. But do you know how that index works? Look at the S&P 500 for example. Sure, it’s 500 stocks, but about a third of the index is dependent on five companies. Why? Because it’s a market cap weighted index meaning the size of a company, its market cap (price times shares outstanding) dictates its influence.

“Remember when a trillion dollars was a lot of money?” asks Spencer Jakab in The Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street feature, “Gigantic Stocks Are a Reason to Worry.” Five companies have reached that level recently. And look at Apple. Its market cap is approaching $3 trillion. What does this mean? “The precedents aren’t encouraging,” explains Jakab and he continues why, here:

One ob­vi­ous rea­son is that even pas­sive in­vestors are in­creas­ingly bet­ting on just a hand­ful of stocks vul­ner­a­ble to a dud prod­uct or reg­u­la­tory set­back. Think­ing of it in terms of buy­ing an en­tire busi­ness is help­ful: Would you rather own the iPhone maker or all of Mc­Don­ald’s, Wal­mart, AT&T, Philip Mor­ris, Berk­shire Hath­away, Proc­ter & Gam­ble, JP­Mor­gan Chase, Star­bucks, Boe­ing, Deere and Amer­i­can Ex­press com­bined? A lot would have to go wrong all at once to tor­pedo that di­ver­si­fied group of blue-chip stocks.

Action Line: This is a top-heavy market where you need to ask yourself how many iPhones can Apple really sell? Invest every dollar like it’s your last. And invest in terms of thinking about having that dollar buying a business.

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E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy
E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. His focus at all times is on preparing clients and readers for “Times Like These.” E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998.

E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH, NH, where he completed course-work in Practical and Defensive Handgun, Conceal Carry Pistol, Shotguns, Precision Scope Rifle and Kidnapping Prevention.

E.J. plays a Yamaha Recording Custom drum set with Zilldjian cymbals. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zildjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart (RIP) of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris.

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