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Facebook and Alphabet now part of 'Communication Services group' on Wall Street

Reuters • October 2, 2018, 18:09:28 IST
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Following the changes to GICS, Cisco and Intel join Visa, Microsoft and Apple as the largest five components.

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The technology sector appears to be doing just fine on Wall Street a week after it lost two of its highest-profile components to a newly christened communication services group. The S&P 500 technology index has gained 1.3 percent since the start of last Monday, when **Facebook Inc** and **Google** parent Alphabet — half of the FANG group of hyper-growth stocks that propelled Wall Street higher in recent years — were pushed out of technology and into the telecom sector, renamed “communication services.” During that short period of time, the technology index outperformed communication services and consumer discretionary, the third sector affected by the largest ever overhaul of the Global Industry Classification Standard. [caption id=“attachment_5268091” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”]A Google sign is seen during the WAIC (World Artificial Intelligence Conference) in Shanghai, China. Image: Reuters A Google sign is seen during the WAIC (World Artificial Intelligence Conference) in Shanghai, China. Image: Reuters[/caption] Bank of America Merrill Lynch recommended on Monday that investors be overweight technology and underweight communication services and consumer discretionary. “Old Tech represents a lot of what we like: net cash and healthy balance sheets, free cash flow generation, leverage to unit volume sales growth and low earnings risk,” bank strategist Savita Subramanian wrote in a report. Following the changes to GICS, Cisco Systems and Intel join Visa Inc, Microsoft and Apple as the tech sector’s largest five components. Mature companies with storied histories compared to many of their Silicon Valley neighbors, Cisco and Intel have struggled to grow in recent years, but they deliver steady earnings and return cash to shareholders through dividends and buybacks. Netflix, another FANG stock, was moved from consumer discretionary to communication services as part of the reshuffle. It has since rallied nearly 6 percent, helping push the communication services index 1 percent higher. [caption id=“attachment_5230041” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”]A 3D-printed Facebook logo is displayed in front of a US flag in this illustration. Image: Reuters A 3D-printed Facebook logo is displayed in front of a US flag in this illustration. Image: Reuters[/caption] Up 20 percent so far in 2018, technology may benefit from the absence of Alphabet and Facebook, which have underperformed due to worries about regulation in response to criticism of their handling of user data. Amazon, the fourth FANG stocks, remains in consumer discretionary and is now the only part of FANG not in the communication services sector. Since the start of last Monday, the consumer discretionary has risen 0.4 percent. The S&P 500 lost 0.2 percent during the same period. Consumer discretionary and communication services, which between them now include all of the FANG stocks, remain crowded trades at risk of selloff, according to Subramanian. RBC in a report on Monday named cloud computing company ServiceNow, software maker Synopsys and payment processor Worldpay - all within the technology sector - in a list of 12 top picks for US stocks.

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