This is the second piece in a series examining “boring” large-cap stocks that have outperformed the Nasdaq-100 over the past five years.
The first piece provided an overview of the five companies
This week we begin breaking down the data behind each of the individual companies. This week’s focus: Curtiss-Wright (CW). The Nasdaq-100 is often used as a technology index by investors.
Its top-10 components read like a “who’s who” of high-flying tech stocks. Nvidia and Alphabet alone make up almost 25% of the entire index, and if you toss in Microsoft and Amazon, you’re looking at more than 50%. Those are the types of names that the financial media discusses every day.