Some Numbers on Today’s Market

A very good day for us. Here are some numbers.

The S&P 500 rose 1.08% to close at 2,374.15.

Our Buy List today gained 1.83%, thanks to a 19.50% gain for CR Bard. Without BCR, the rest of the Buy List was up 1.05% which was basically inline with the market. By the way, Becton, Dickinson (BDX) fell 4.44% today.

For the year, our Buy List is now up 8.75% compared with 6.04% for the S&P 500. That doesn’t include dividends.

We hit new highs today in AFL, ADS, BCR, FISV, MSFT, MCO, SHW and SYK.

The broader market saw new highs for the Nasdaq. It’s not far from breaking 6,000. Among S&P 500 sectors, we had new highs in Industrials, Consumer Discretionary and Tech. Among S&P 500 stocks, new highs beat new lows 78 to 2.

Posted by on April 24th, 2017 at 4:21 pm


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