{"id":457052,"date":"2017-03-18T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=457052"},"modified":"2017-03-18T12:00:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T12:00:59","slug":"hot-stocks-to-own-for-the-next-six-months-and-beyond-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=457052","title":{"rendered":"Hot Stocks to Own for the Next Six Months (and Beyond)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/juniormininganalyst.com\/hot-stocks-to-own-for-the-next-six-months-and-beyond\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.investmentu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/iot-technology-stocks-chart.jpg\" alt=\"iot technology stocks chart\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span>By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.investmentu.com\/article\/detail\/53964\/cotw-iot-push-technology-stocks-higher\">Anthony Summers<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>With the first quarter of 2017 coming to a close, investors should ask themselves a simple question\u2026<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the best sector to be in over the next six months?<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s chart gives some insight. Based on the performances of individual sectors over the past three years, the answer is clear\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Information technology.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year, technology stocks have delivered some impressive gains. As tracked by the S&amp;P 500 Information Technology Index, they&#8217;re up 12%. That&#8217;s nearly double the broad market&#8217;s 6.4% return, as tracked by the S&amp;P 500.<\/p>\n<p>Over the second and third quarters of 2014 through 2016, the technology sector delivered an average return that has crushed every other sector in the market.<\/p>\n<p>It outperformed the healthcare sector by 135%\u2026 the financial sector by 367%\u2026 and consumer staples by 512%.<\/p>\n<p>And during the same period, utilities, industrials, telecom, materials and energy stocks all had average returns in the red.<\/p>\n<p>But will this market-beating trend continue for tech stocks?<\/p>\n<p>[iu-adbox]<\/p>\n<p>While past performance cannot guarantee future results, the cards are undoubtedly stacked in the sector&#8217;s favor. Fact is\u2026 the tech space is red hot. And one of the major drivers behind this boom is the Internet of Things (IoT).<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a regular reader, you&#8217;re no stranger to the IoT. Its defining theme is connectivity \u2013 one of Matthew Carr&#8217;s three Cs of technology investing (which he wrote about most recently here).<\/p>\n<p>The IoT trend reflects a huge effort by tech companies to connect almost anything and everything to the internet through the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Smartphones, home appliances, automobiles\u2026 you name it. Soon, virtually every household object will be connected with others across the globe through the internet.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s exciting\u2026 and scary.<\/p>\n<p>But if you can set your fears of a robot overthrow aside, you might see the massive profit opportunity that&#8217;s right in front of us.<\/p>\n<p>By 2020, the global IoT market is expected to reach $1.7 trillion. And there are several ways to ensure your portfolio gets its fair share of the action\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Two ETFs you should definitely keep in mind are the PowerShares S&amp;P Small Cap Information Technology ETF (Nasdaq: PSCT) and the Global X Internet of Things Thematic ETF (Nasdaq: SNSR).<\/p>\n<p>The PowerShares ETF tracks the IT sector broadly, but the Global X ETF will give you targeted exposure to the IoT boom. Some of its top holdings include Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Nasdaq: SWKS), up 31.8% this year\u2026 STMicroelectronics N.V. (NYSE: STM), up 37.4%\u2026 and Mobileye N.V. (NYSE: MBLY), up 56.5%, which was recently acquired by Intel.<\/p>\n<p>If history is any indication, these tech plays could offer big gains over the next six months\u2026 and for years to come. <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.investmentu.com\/article\/detail\/53964\/cotw-iot-push-technology-stocks-higher\"> \u2026read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.investmentu.com\/article\/detail\/53964\/cotw-iot-push-technology-stocks-higher\" title=\"Hot Stocks to Own for the Next Six Months (and Beyond)\">Investment You<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/juniormininganalyst.com\/hot-stocks-to-own-for-the-next-six-months-and-beyond\/\"><\/a><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.investmentu.com\/article\/detail\/53964\/cotw-iot-push-technology-stocks-higher\">Hot Stocks to Own for the Next Six Months (and Beyond)<\/a> appeared first on <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/juniormininganalyst.com\/\">Junior Mining Analyst<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anthony Summers With the first quarter of 2017 coming to a close, investors should ask themselves a simple question\u2026 What&#8217;s the best sector to be in over the next six months? This week&#8217;s chart gives some insight. Based on the performances of individual sectors over the past three years, the answer is clear\u2026 Information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}