Is the stock market dead? During week 36, 2015, top stock market industries are memory chips semiconductor, and regional airlines stocks.
Top Equity Industries
This post will look into the top performing stocks, industry, and sector. The S&P 500 index has a weekly return of -3.36%. NASDAQ Composite has a weekly return of -2.99%. Dow Jones Industrials Average has a weekly return of -1.59%. The small cap (Russell 2000) has a return of -2.28%.
Stock market highlights for week 36 are:
- Stocks are dropping to near low again. Stocks reverse course again and close in negative territory for 2015.
- China’s slowdown can be felt regionally
- Fed uncertain to raise or hold interest rates in near term
- Technology sector may have little impact to China
- Oil is stabilizing
Top 15 stock industries in week 36, 2015 (August 31, 2015 to September 6, 2015) are:
| No. | Name | Perf Week | Perf Month | Perf YTD |
|---|
| 1 | Semiconductor- Memory Chips | 4.67% | -8.99% | -48.18% |
| 2 | Basic Materials Wholesale | 2.82% | 4.92% | 2.55% |
| 3 | Regional Airlines | 1.83% | -2.68% | -4.27% |
| 4 | Sporting Activities | 1.24% | -2.01% | 7.25% |
| 5 | Tobacco Products, Other | 0.91% | -11.30% | 19.94% |
| 6 | Internet Service Providers | 0.83% | 0.53% | -59.90% |
| 7 | Apparel Stores | 0.56% | -3.39% | 1.97% |
| 8 | Home Health Care | 0.54% | -8.84% | 23.91% |
| 9 | Electronics Stores | 0.37% | 8.02% | 4.09% |
| 10 | Residential Construction | 0.14% | 1.42% | 8.05% |
| 11 | Paper & Paper Products | 0.10% | -2.38% | -7.86% |
| 12 | General Building Materials | -0.06% | -2.11% | 19.25% |
| 13 | Drug Stores | -0.06% | -6.74% | 14.83% |
| 14 | Textile Industrial | -0.10% | -7.01% | 12.52% |
| 15 | Home Furnishing Stores | -0.10% | -6.00% | -9.89% |
Best Stocks Return
Looking into best weekly stocks can provide an insight what stock market will bring for the next session. Retail or institutional investors may want to rotate to this sector to avoid bad returns. Can growth stocks finally make the comeback? Will value stocks continue to be the winner? Some great sectors in 2015 are drug, health care, grocery, consumer, etc.
Top 4 memory chips semiconductor stocks in 2015 are:
| No. | Company | Ticker | Perf Week | Perf Month | Perf Year |
|---|
| 1 | Micron Technology, Inc. | MU | 5.39% | -10.15% | -48.94% |
| 2 | SunEdison Semiconductor Limited | SEMI | 1.27% | -6.54% | -27.23% |
| 3 | Rambus Inc. | RMBS | 0.45% | 1.27% | 10.11% |
| 4 | Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. | ISSI | 0.09% | 0.87% | 49.15% |
The
8 best regional airlines stocks in 2015 are:
| No. | Company | Ticker | Perf Week | Perf Month | Perf Year |
|---|
| 1 | Republic Airways Holdings Inc. | RJET | 23.02% | -13.98% | -68.13% |
| 2 | SkyWest Inc. | SKYW | 7.26% | -1.22% | 90.05% |
| 3 | JetBlue Airways Corporation | JBLU | 6.37% | 1.93% | 89.15% |
| 4 | Alaska Air Group, Inc. | ALK | 3.65% | 1.32% | 68.52% |
| 5 | Ryanair Holdings plc | RYAAY | 3.21% | 0.87% | 36.81% |
| 6 | Hawaiian Holdings Inc. | HA | 2.79% | -1.30% | 53.52% |
| 7 | Virgin America Inc. | VA | 2.32% | -3.90% | - |
| 8 | Southwest Airlines Co. | LUV | 0.35% | -1.35% | 14.16% |
Top stock issues are:
- Indices are bouncing lower again.
- Oil is finally catching a bid.
- Is China in trouble?
- Bearish Divergence on stock charts gives warning to investors to skip stock markets for a while.
