S&P 500 Sector Heatmap (H1-26)
All 11 sectors, colour-coded by H1 2026 performance. Valuations, the three-year rotation, a Tech spotlight, and how the second half could play out.
S&P 500 Sector Heatmap: The Half-Time Review
All 11 GICS sectors, colour-coded by first-half performance. Valuations, the three-year rotation, a Tech spotlight, and the frameworks strategists are using for the second half.
The S&P 500 is divided into 11 sectors: broad categories of business (Tech, Energy, Health Care, and so on). Each sector has an ETF that tracks it (XLK for Tech, XLE for Energy), a fund you can buy that holds every stock in that sector at its market weight. H1 means the first half of the year, 1 January to 30 June. Forward P/E is the price you pay today per dollar of earnings analysts expect over the next 12 months; lower usually means cheaper. One nuance worth knowing: the heatmap in this report uses price returns (share price moves only), while the rotation section uses total returns (price moves plus dividends). Both are labelled where they appear.