Stefon Walters, The Motley Fool
Wed, Apr 9, 2025, 6:54 AM 5 min read
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Well, it's official: The Nasdaq Composite has entered carnivore territory. A carnivore marketplace occurs erstwhile a large scale drops implicit 20% from caller highs, and that's precisely what has happened with the Nasdaq Composite, which is down astir 24% from its Dec. 16 high.
The scale was already having a unsmooth 2025, but it was sent plunging aft President Donald Trump announced his caller tariff program connected April 2. The caller tariffs, which impact imports from astir 180 countries, volition rise costs connected tons of goods, including cardinal products from countries that apical companies successful the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite trust on.
Although the scale is successful a carnivore market, that doesn't mean investors should debar it. There are inactive ways to person it acceptable up semipermanent investors nicely. One of them is an exchange-traded money (ETF): the Direxion Nasdaq-100 Equal Weighted Index ETF (NASDAQ: QQQE).
This ETF doesn't see each banal successful the Nasdaq Composite. However, it does enactment disconnected the Nasdaq-100, a subset that contains the 100 largest nonfinancial companies listed connected the exchange.
The Direxion ETF stands retired due to the fact that it's equal-weighted alternatively of marketplace cap-weighted similar galore different Nasdaq ETFs. This means investments are dispersed virtually arsenic among each companies successful the Nasdaq-100 alternatively of larger companies receiving much of the concern and having a larger power connected the question of ETFs.
Megacap tech stocks -- and the "Magnificent Seven" successful peculiar -- marque up the immense bulk of the modular Nasdaq-100. In fact, the 7 stocks (Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta Platforms, Alphabet, and Tesla) relationship for implicit 45% of the index. As they go, truthful goes the index, for amended oregon worse.
With a fistful of tech stocks making up a ample chunk of the Nasdaq-100, it's nary astonishment that the tech assemblage is heavy represented successful the index.
Tech is inactive the largest assemblage successful the equal-weight ETF, but it's overmuch little than with the modular index. Below are the sectors and however overmuch they relationship for successful each:
Information technology | 40.65% | 51.29% |
Communication services | 9.98% | 15.11% |
Consumer discretionary | 12.01% | 14.73% |
Consumer staples | 7.09% | 5.48% |
healthcare | 10.15% | 4.98% |
Industrials | 10.96% | 4.61% |
Materials | 1.00% | 1.27% |
Utilities | 4.05% | 1.24% |
Energy | 2.10% | 0.56% |
Financial | 0.99% | 0.54% |
Real estate | 1.01% | 0.19% |
Source: Direxion. Percentages arsenic of Dec. 31, 2024.