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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Investment Strategies / Mechanical Investing
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Author: JohnIII ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: SP 600 Deletions Performance
Date: 06/08/24 9:11 PM
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This post examines the performance of stocks that were removed from the S&P 600 Small Cap index.

On 2023 June 02 (following market close) S&P announced a shuffling within indexes, including the S&P 600:

S&P Global: PDF document

Eighteen stocks were removed from the S&P 600 index. An equal weight basket of those stocks, purchased at market close 6/5/2023 through 6/7/2024, returned -13.56%. The tracking ETF VIOO returned 14.11%. So significant underperformance for the ex-index stocks. Here are the returns for the individual stocks:

CUTR -88.45%
PETS -70.42%
CMTL -80.02%
EGRX -80.44%
PLCE -34.62%
RYAM 56.47%
LPSN -81.35%
GCI 100.00%
BOOM -26.40%
GCO 42.59%
ZUMZ 38.38%
TREE 115.78%
TG -23.82%
INGN -13.69%
DOUG -56.86%
FARO 18.97%
CARA -80.25%
BIG -54.92%

Seems to fly in the face of studies that suggest outperformance of stocks that are removed from an index. Or maybe that only applies to mid/large cap indexes?

John
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