The construction and education and health services sectors showed visible growth through 2011. (localresumeservices.com)
The mining and logging sectors sustained visible growth along with the financial activities, leisure and hospitality and government sectors. (localresumeservices.com)
One could certainly argue that paying up for something with a much more visible growth runway (technology) is a better long - term proposition than hoping that something that has fallen on harder times will necessarily recover (consumer stocks or REITs, for example). (seekingalpha.com)