Believe it or not, we just completed a good week for the U.S. stock market. The S&P 500 rose 5.7% through Friday’s close from a week earlier, with three-quarters of component stocks showing gains.
But investors were still flocking to gold GC00, with continuous front-month contracts for the metal on the New York Mercantile Exchange up 7.2% for the week.
Here are the 11 sectors of the S&P 500 SPX, sorted by how well they performed for the week. Price changes are also shown for the preceding three years and from the end of 2021 through Friday.
|
Sector or index |
One-week price change through April 11 |
2025 price change |
2024 price change |
2023 price change |
2022 price change |
Price change since end of 2021 |
|
Information technology |
9.7% |
-15.3% |
35.7% |
56.4% |
-28.9% |
27.8% |
|
Industrials |
6.5% |
-4.6% |
15.6% |
16.0% |
-7.1% |
18.9% |
|
Communication services |
6.4% |
-9.1% |
38.9% |
54.4% |
-40.4% |
16.2% |
|
Financials |
5.6% |
-3.5% |
28.4% |
9.9% |
-12.4% |
19.4% |
|
Consumer discretionary |
4.6% |
-17.0% |
29.1% |
41.0% |
-37.6% |
-5.7% |
|
Materials |
3.6% |
-3.8% |
-1.8% |
10.2% |
-14.1% |
-10.6% |
|
Consumer staples |
3.1% |
3.7% |
12.0% |
-2.2% |
-3.2% |
10.0% |
|
Utilities |
2.4% |
0.8% |
19.6% |
-10.2% |
-1.4% |
6.7% |
|
Healthcare |
1.2% |
-0.5% |
0.9% |
0.3% |
-3.6% |
-2.9% |
|
Real estate |
-0.2% |
-4.6% |
1.7% |
8.3% |
-28.4% |
-24.8% |
|
Energy |
-0.4% |
-7.5% |
2.3% |
-4.8% |
59.0% |
43.3% |
|
S&P 500 |
5.7% |
-8.8% |
23.3% |
24.2% |
-19.4% |
12.5% |
|
Source: FactSet |
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All price changes in this article exclude dividends. The table shows the previous years and the gains from the end of 2021 through Friday in order to encompass the broad decline in 2022, which was followed by tremendous gains for the S&P 500 over the next two years heading into this year’s decline. (You might need to scroll the table to see all of the columns.)
The information-technology sector was the week’s leader with a 9.7% gain, but it was still down 15.3% for 2025. Two defensive sectors — consumer staples and utilities — ended the week with year-to-date gains.
Four sectors ended Friday at levels lower than they were at the end of 2021 — consumer discretionary, materials, healthcare and real estate.
