Market Sectors Offered by Google and Yahoo
"I was there first!" - but I'm better...
(When I look at the differences between Yahoo and Google finance, this is what came to my mind).It seems that the information offered by Google is more advanced. Yahoo was first in offering this service, but Google has added some extra features, like these on market sectors.
Yahoo is using the following sectors: Basic Materials, Conglomerates, Consumer Goods, Financial, Healthcare, Industrial Goods, Services, Technology, Utilities.
Google has added a few sectors which makes the information more detailed (I have not check which source they have used):- Basic Materials +3.44%
- Capital Goods +0.97%
- Conglomerates +1.65%
- Cons. Cyclical +1.52%
- Cons. Non-Cyclical +0.93%
- Energy +4.02%
- Financial +1.60%
- Healthcare +0.90%
- Services +1.87%
- Technology +1.67%
- Transportation +2.19%
- Utilities +1.07%
The differences are: consumer goods, which have been further classified into cyclical and non-cyclical. Capital goods and transport as well as energy are also added.
I would prefer the Google index. First of all, Transportation is elementary in any economy and offers valuable information to investors.
Somewhere I read that in the early days there were only two indexes: the Dow Jones Industrial and DJ Transportation. Having these separate offers insight in not only the level of change in production but also in changes in the level of distribution.
Energy is currently a popular sector and it is different from utility since the distribution of energy and supply to end-users has been split-up.Likewise some consumer products are more luxury and therefore cyclical.
Google's sectors offer more in-depth information. Whether that will help any private investor to take better investment decisions remains uncertain.
H.J.B.
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