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- Cyclical Stock A stock whose earnings rise and fall strongly with the business cycle, such as automakers, airlines and industrial firms.
- Defensive Stock A stock whose demand and earnings hold up in recessions, such as utilities, consumer staples and healthcare.
- How sectors behave across the business cycle: cyclicals vs. defensives How cyclical and defensive sectors tend to behave through expansions and recessions, the textbook rotation model, and what 2021–2026 sector ETF data actually show.
- Market map and sector performance in Stock Master Use the Stock Master market map (heatmap) to see the S&P 500, S&P 100 or Dow at a glance, and read sector breadth and performance on the Sector Summary.
- Market overview, heatmap and sectors on finabase.io Read the whole market at a glance on finabase.io — index and futures cards, the S&P 500 heatmap, sector breadth, top performers, trending stocks and other asset classes.
- Sector A broad group of companies in related lines of business, such as energy or health care; the GICS system defines 11 sectors.
- Sector rotation Money shifting from one market sector to another as the economy or interest rates change, and strategies that try to follow those shifts.
- Stock market sectors and industries: GICS and sector ETFs explained How the GICS system sorts companies into 11 sectors and 163 sub-industries, how sector ETFs work, cyclical versus defensive sectors, and a year of real sector returns.
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