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S&P 500 Mega-Caps Not in a ‘Bubble’; Big EPS = Big Mkt Cap

It was a rough week with S&P 500 down 0.3% and with the carnage in the mega-caps. There’s a growing chorus the S&P 500 is significantly distorted by the outsized market cap of the Big 5 tech names (AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, FB, GOOG), now a 22% weight in the index. I don’t see the bubble. The top 5 are 18% of earnings and >80% of 2020 EPS growth. So, that 22% market cap share does not seem so out of line with their nearly 20% net income share. After all, aren’t these franchise companies

It was a rough week with S&P 500 down 0.3% and with the carnage in the mega-caps. There’s a growing chorus the S&P 500 is significantly distorted by the outsized market cap of the Big 5 tech names (AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, FB, GOOG), now a 22% weight in the index. I don’t see the bubble. The top 5 are 18% of earnings and >80% of 2020 EPS growth. So, that 22% market cap share does not seem so out of line with their nearly 20% net income share. After all, aren’t these franchise companies? (More below.)

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