No doubt you may have seen the chart below showing the outsized impact that a handful of tech names have had on the performance of the S&P 500. So, does that mean that the remaining 495 names in the S&P 500 are bad companies? Of course not. But it does show what happens when a handful of names make up 21% of the total market cap of the index.
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