Communication Services Select Sector SPDR Fund

XLC tracks a market-cap-weighted index of US telecommunication and media & entertainment components of the S&P 500 index.

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While the rally has been broad based, the laggards of last year, like technology and communication services sectors as well as growth and small-cap stocks, have been outperforming this year.

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The Walt Disney Company (DIS) beat estimates for both earnings and revenues. Shares of Disney rose 6.6% in pre-market trading at the time of writing.

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ETFs Set to Surge on Solid Meta Q4 Results

Meta Platforms has jumped 62.9% over the past three months and has underperformed the industry's average of 12.2%. The outperformance might continue as Meta Platforms has a reasonable chance of beating on earnings.

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According to SA, the Communication Services Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLC) exhibited an average weekly PriceVol of 9.8, which is above the S&P 500's 7.5. Now, the PriceVol indicator measures market volatility. Still, a comparison of the price performances for the last five days shows that it is XLC that has outperformed the broader market, by more than 3% as per the deep blue chart below.

XLC ETF: Performing Better Than The Nasdaq And The S&P 500

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This is usually the week tech companies crow about themselves at the CES show. But this time around, it's tech companies' time to eat crow.

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The Dogs of the S&P 500 is a little-known strategy for income investors that focuses on this year's weakest sectors to find the highest yields and low values.

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There's been mixed earnings results from companies like Disney, Netflix, Alphabet, and Meta Platforms. The Communication Services sector continues to underperform the S&P 500.

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Disney missed estimates for both earnings and revenues when it reported fiscal fourth quarter results. However, the company posted record sales and the best revenue growth in more than 25 years for the fiscal year.

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It's no secret that communications firm stocks have been a tough place to be during a complicated 2022. Having helped to lift the markets out of the heights of the ongoing pandemic, communications firms have since dragged the index away from the strong energy sector.

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Meta Platforms Inc. (META) stock saw a huge falloff this week following a more than 50% decrease to its quarterly profits, driven by a precipitous drop to its digital advertising numbers.

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Social media giant's more than 25% decline drags down rival companies.

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Meta Platforms (META) reported its second consecutive quarterly drop in revenues and provided a gloomy forecast.

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Google parent Alphabet reported weak third-quarter 2022 results, missing both revenue and earnings estimates. Slowing ad sales growth is responsible for the weak results.

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With earnings season about to shift into high gear, VettaFi head of research Todd Rosenbluth appeared on Yahoo!Finance to discuss how big tech earnings could impact ETF investors. Rosenbluth noted that tech ETFs have been relatively strong in 2022 in terms of inflows.

Todd Rosenbluth Talks Tech and Earnings on Yahoo!Finance

The earnings reports for several key tech giants are likely making some holders of these stocks a bit nervous. But what is the outlook for those ETFs that have a high concentration in these same stocks?

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The latest tech earnings season has already kicked off, but many high-profile mega-cap growth companies will report results this week. We believe the data and forward-looking insights are important for not just advisors who own individual stocks, but also those who own more diversified ETFs.

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Energy, the best-performing sector, and tech will be watched as 3Q numbers arrive.

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The ALPS Equal Sector Weight ETF (EQL) has been gaining in popularity in recent months as investors look to the benefits of a sector equal-weighting methodology. EQL took in the greatest inflows across ALPS' lineup of ETFs in August, taking in $74 million.

EQL Leads in 1-Year Flows Across ALPS' ETFs

These sectors have offered massive combined (dividend plus buyback) yield. Investors can tap these sectors with these top-ranked ETFs.

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XLC invests across Communication Services sector companies within the S&P 500. Alphabet Inc. and Meta Platforms are the two largest holdings in the fund, although the broader portfolio has a good range of companies.

XLC: Portfolio Is A Bit Too Concentrated, But We're Bullish Anyway

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. (NasdaqGS: WBD) shares plunged, dragging down communication services sector-related exchange traded funds after the multinational mass media conglomerate revealed a steep loss in its latest quarterly earnings report.

Communication Services ETF Weakens After Warner Bros. Discovery Q2 Miss

Digital ad-dependent stocks have reported a sharp slowdown in revenues.

Social Media's Ad Revenue Slowdown Hits ETFs

Technology-related exchange traded funds climbed Wednesday after Google's parent Alphabet (NasdaqGS: GOOGL) and Microsoft (NasdaqGS: MSFT) quarterly earnings allayed fears of a slowdown. On Wednesday, the tech-heavy Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) rose 2.7%, the Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLK) gained 2.7%, and the Communication Services Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLC) increased 3.1%.

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