Table 1 Descriptive statistics by sector
Sector | Average market cap (USD Mil) | Average daily trading volume (Mil) | Average daily price change (%) | Sample size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Media conglomerates | 223,611.95 | 18.17 | − 0.51% | 1 |
Internet retail | 70,518.85 | 3.52 | −0.14% | 23 |
Managed health care | 60,663.37 | 2.57 | −0.16% | 8 |
Major telecommunications | 52,500.63 | 7.34 | −0.05% | 10 |
Food retail | 35,804.03 | 2.58 | 0.35% | 10 |
Telecommunications equipment | 29,147.66 | 2.92 | −0.29% | 50 |
Internet software/services | 27,785.03 | 2.25 | −0.40% | 93 |
Electric utilities | 17,336.85 | 2.58 | −0.21% | 51 |
Wireless telecommunications | 16,942.21 | 2.01 | 1.07% | 18 |
Data processing services | 12,887.17 | 1.33 | −0.43% | 40 |
Insurance brokers/services | 10,053.82 | 0.69 | −0.31% | 14 |
Oil and gas pipelines | 9849.43 | 5.53 | −1.30% | 11 |
Movies/entertainment | 8878.23 | 1.12 | −0.72% | 28 |
Hotels/resorts/cruise lines | 8444.96 | 4.59 | −1.07% | 18 |
Chemicals: major diversified | 8322.61 | 2.20 | −0.67% | 9 |
Information technology services | 8139.05 | 1.34 | −0.26% | 109 |
Chemicals: specialty | 7458.86 | 0.90 | −0.52% | 44 |
Trucks/construction/farm machinery | 6352.26 | 0.77 | −0.61% | 35 |
Real estate investment trusts | 5922.43 | 1.89 | −0.65% | 207 |
Computer communications | 5286.76 | 0.65 | −0.05% | 13 |
Apparel/footwear retail | 5253.82 | 2.10 | −1.02% | 37 |
Oil and gas production | 4484.33 | 7.14 | −0.29% | 70 |
Chemicals: agricultural | 4298.97 | 1.39 | −0.49% | 14 |
Construction materials | 3859.77 | 0.55 | −0.87% | 10 |
Water utilities | 3688.86 | 0.36 | 0.03% | 12 |
Agricultural commodities/milling | 2938.48 | 2.06 | −0.42% | 19 |
Financial conglomerates | 2778.31 | 0.50 | −0.24% | 109 |
Biotechnology | 2175.75 | 1.31 | −0.01% | 285 |
Wholesale distributors | 2219.28 | 0.53 | −0.54% | 45 |
Advertising/marketing services | 2058.79 | 1.77 | −0.80% | 22 |
Miscellaneous manufacturing | 1891.37 | 0.52 | −0.53% | 14 |
Real estate development | 1795.77 | 0.55 | −0.57% | 43 |
Engineering and construction | 1633.11 | 0.58 | −0.54% | 32 |
Specialty telecommunications | 1526.04 | 1.57 | 0.14% | 19 |
Personnel services | 1124.66 | 0.26 | −0.60% | 25 |
Other transportation | 1058.49 | 0.40 | −0.70% | 7 |
Coal | 745.55 | 0.55 | −0.59% | 13 |