{"id":476,"date":"2017-04-03T12:28:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T16:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etfresearchcenter.com\/articles\/?p=476"},"modified":"2017-04-03T12:28:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T16:28:34","slug":"sector-spdr-analyzer-april-2017-rare-alignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/2017\/04\/03\/sector-spdr-analyzer-april-2017-rare-alignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Sector SPDR Analyzer (April 2017): Rare Alignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>ETF Analyzer, <em>Sector SPDR Edition<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>for April\u00a02017\u00a0is ready for download. This monthly publication has succinct one-page reports on each of the 10 Select Sector SPDR ETFs in three easy-to-read sections: Investment Summary, Fundamentals, and Composition. It\u00a0helps investors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Evaluate the funds\u00a0based on investment merit using fundamental data and analysis<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Compare the Sector SPDRs with ease on a variety of forward-looking valuation metrics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><q class=\"text-big shortcode-pullquote wf-cell align-left wf-1-3\">A rare alignment of relative bargains and timely performance<\/q>As always some sectors look better than others. According to our analysis\u00a0Financials (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etfresearchcenter.com\/tools\/fund_detail.php?ETF_ticker=XLF\" target=\"_blank\">XLF<\/a>) and Health Care (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etfresearchcenter.com\/tools\/fund_detail.php?ETF_ticker=XLV\" target=\"_blank\">XLV<\/a>) lead the pack in an otherwise richly valued market. What is unusual however is that these relative bargains also align with what&#8217;s working: XLV has been a surprisingly strong performer so far this year, beating the S&amp;P 500 SPDR (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etfresearchcenter.com\/tools\/fund_detail.php?ETF_ticker=SPY\" target=\"_blank\">SPY<\/a>) by about 2.9 percentage points, while XLF, though a relative laggard so far in 2017, is the best performing Sector SPDR by far since the election.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side, Energy (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etfresearchcenter.com\/tools\/fund_detail.php?ETF_ticker=XLE\" target=\"_blank\">XLE<\/a>) remains our least favorite sector, and is also the worst performing sector both year-to-date and since the election. And with renewed pressure on oil prices in recent days it doesn&#8217;t seem like sentiment is going to turn around in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_111\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etfresearchcenter.com\/archives\/Sector_SPDR_Analyzer_040117_ERC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111\" class=\"wp-image-111 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.etfresearchcenter.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/download.png\" alt=\"Note: Link expires after 2 months\" width=\"158\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Note: Link expires after 2 months<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ETF Analyzer, Sector SPDR Edition\u00a0for April\u00a02017\u00a0is ready for download. This monthly publication has succinct one-page reports on each of the 10 Select Sector SPDR ETFs in three easy-to-read sections: Investment Summary, Fundamentals, and Composition. It\u00a0helps investors: Evaluate the funds\u00a0based on investment merit using fundamental data and analysis Compare the Sector SPDRs with ease on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[4,13,8,9,12,15,23,14,16,11,32],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sector-etfs","tag-spy","tag-xlb","tag-xle","tag-xlf","tag-xli","tag-xlk","tag-xlp","tag-xlre","tag-xlu","tag-xlv","tag-xly","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}