Sector / Industry Selection
2.2 Sector & Factor Analysis Instrument
Impactful analysis in one page
When manually reviewing equity sectors and factors to find potential investment ideas, it pays to visit one of the dedicated instruments for this purpose. Signal Sigma takes into account the most popular ETFs that segment the market in different ways:
Sectors divide companies by the field in which they operate (Technology, Consumer Discretionary, Utilities etc.);
Factors divide companies by different metrics pertaining to company fundamentals or stock behavior (Growth, Value, Momentum);
Both Sectors and Factors have to be taken into account when forming a portfolio, for proper diversification purposes. This instrument serves as the starting point for taking a deep-dive into a particular industry group, as it’s an easy way to compare both long and short term performance. It also gives important information about the health of the overall market, since no group of stocks operate in a vacuum.