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The Returns of the Largest Companies tend to Suck After They Became the Largest.
By Investment Moats  •  September 14, 2022
Wes Crill, the head of investment strategists at Dimensional, brought to our attention some interesting changes in Russell Investments’ latest reclassification of stocks. Two and a half years ago, the FAANG stocks were the set of companies that seemed to provide us with safety and returns as we tried to survive the pandemic. Their business model and network effects made them more resilient during the hard times compared to the old school economy stocks. Russell recently reclassified Meta (formerly Facebook (F in FAANG) and Netflix (N in FAANG) from a growth stock to value stock during their annual reconstitution event. In hindsight, the largest and strongest companies are not immune to weakness. Wes provides this outstanding data chart providing empirical evidence of the largest stocks before and after becoming the ten largest stocks: In 94 years of US history, we can aggregate the total return performances of the ten largest stocks three, five and ten years before they became big and after they became big....
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By Investment Moats
Investment Moats is set up by Kyith Ng and have been around since 2005. He aims to share his experiences making sense of money, how money works and ways to grow his money. It hopes that by sharing his experiences, both good and bad, season investors can advice and critique his decisions and new investors can learn from them and find their own style ...
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