In the last few years, the technology sector was the go-to investment for growth-oriented investors. We just had to buy the dips after sell-offs, and tech stocks would eventually rally again to make new record highs.
The example of Facebook (FB) illustrates why this may be changing as we are heading into the fall season. FB dropped 20% in 15 minutes after the disappointing earnings call in late July. The chart shows that the stock was not able to recover, as investors are shifting towards more conservative and stable investments:
The new market-leading sectors are health care, real estate, utilities and consumer staples:
Changing consumer habits and cord cutting put pressure on earnings for telecommunications companies in the last two years, which resulted in the sector underperforming the market. We think that this may be changing, as telecom companies re-invent their product offerings and investors renew their interest in stable large-cap investments.
We think that the Fidelity Select Telecommunications Fund (FSTCX) is an excellent way to play this emerging trend:
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