One can look to
cyclical stocks like restaurants and automakers to see how quickly their businesses fell during the 2009 recession, and how quickly business rebounded when the economy improved.
Cyclical stocks like CAT are great and I still like tech stocks like ORCL.
Not exact matches
Consumer
cyclicals, multinational companies that materially benefit from overseas commerce, Health Care, and select Technology
stocks like semiconductors also appear to present potential opportunities worthy of consideration.
In contrast, dividend growth
stocks, primarily from
cyclical sectors
like technology, tend to be higher quality and less expensive than those higher yielders.
Ideally, when it comes to which sectors you're investing in, you'll have a nice mix of both defensive and
cyclical stocks — meaning companies that should hold up well in all kinds of markets (
like utilities) and others that can be expected to perform particularly well in certain economic environments (
like hotels and restaurants, which benefit when the economy is booming).
In contrast, dividend growth
stocks, primarily from
cyclical sectors
like technology, tend to be higher quality and less expensive than those higher yielders.
I feel that
stocks are still one of the best investments available due real earnings and liquidity, but I need to adjust my strategy depending on the kind of market
like cyclical bull market,
cyclical bear market, secular bull market, and secular bear market.
We would not be the first to point out that there has been a rush toward safer, defensive
stocks that are less -
cyclical stocks and a rush toward bond substitute
stocks like REITs, MLPs, etc., as investors search for yield in a declining interest rate environment.
Owning an index -
like portfolio of Canadian
stocks means having a large exposure to the highly
cyclical industries, specifically energy (24 per cent of the S&P / TSX composite index), materials (17 per cent) and industrials (5 per cent).
Like the
stock market, housing is
cyclical.
As longtime Growth
Stock Wire readers know, natural resources
like gold are tremendously
cyclical.
He assumes that you have found an interesting candidate based on one of two grounds: 1) you have spotted a bond -
like business, or 2) a
cyclical stock with a Tobins Q factor below 0.5.
Cyclical Stocks are usually associated with companies selling largely - discretionary items
like airline -LSB-...]
Again, because the
stocks are quite bunched up at the moment I'm breaking rule number 2 with Support Services companies (3 companies including MITIE and Interserve), and may do so again with another sector, but the basic idea is enforced diversification, so I end up holding things
like RB which is very defensive, and Rio Tinto which is
cyclical.
Appreciation -
Like the
stock market, the real estate market is
cyclical, and prices fluctuate in the short term.