4 Stocks Delivered About Half of the S&P 500's Gain This Year
If the typical stock trailed, which stocks carried the index?
Overview
As of this writing, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) has climbed around 12% in 2026, not counting dividends. Anyone who owns a fund tracking the index has had a good nine months.
But the average company in the index hasn't kept up. The S&P 500 Equal Weight Index, which includes the same companies but gives each the same weight, has gained around 9% over that time. It's a decent stand-in for how the average stock in the index has done.
Details
A gap of around 3 percentage points may not look like much. But that shows a small group of stocks carried much of the index's gain -- and, I'd argue, a different group than many index fund owners might expect.
Source
Originally published at www.fool.com.
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