ETF Sectors - Performance Overview
Browse all ETF sectors and compare relative strength, momentum and performance across the market.
| SECTOR | LEAD ETF | MKT CAP | # ETFS | VRT | 1W | 1M | 3M | 6M | 12M | RS |
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The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), maintained by MSCI and S&P Dow Jones Indices, splits the equity market into 11 sectors. A sector ETF bundles every company in one of these slices into a single, tradable fund — giving diversified exposure to a whole part of the economy without picking individual stocks.
The 11 GICS sectors are Energy, Materials, Industrials, Consumer Discretionary, Consumer Staples, Health Care, Financials, Information Technology, Communication Services, Utilities and Real Estate.
Sectors rarely move in lockstep. Cyclical sectors — Consumer Discretionary, Industrials, Financials, Technology and Materials — tend to lead during economic expansion, while defensive sectors such as Consumer Staples, Utilities and Health Care hold up better through slowdowns.
Sector rotation strategies use this pattern to overweight the areas favored by the current phase of the business cycle and underweight those facing a headwind, turning relative sector strength into a tactical edge.
Blend: Roughly 90% absolute metrics and 10% peer-relative (the RS-vs-Peers slice), split across a 75% performance / 15% safety / 10% structural budget. The result is clamped to a 0–100 score.
Normalization: Raw inputs live on very different scales, so each is first mapped onto a common 0–100 scale before its weight is applied — a strong reading lands near the top, a weak one near the bottom. Some are inverted, so that, for example, a lower expense ratio scores higher.
Why it can exceed 100%: Sharpe is deliberately weighted 25% — five points above its nominal 20% slot — lifting the raw ceiling to 105%. This stretches the top of the range so the strongest risk-adjusted funds separate cleanly before the final clamp back to 100.