From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza
We haven’t talked much about Real Estate $XLRE lately because there really hasn’t been much to say. Over just about any timeframe, it’s underperformed the S&P 500 $SPY, which we’ll illustrate with a ratio chart below.
Price is basically unchanged over the trailing year. The only sectors that have performed worse are Industrials $XLI, Financials $XLF, and Energy $XLE. This is not a group you want to be associated with.
Looking at the chart, you’ll notice it’s gone nowhere for much longer than just the past year. XLRE has actually been chopping around in a messy range for the better part of four years now!