Software, hardware, chips, and computing services.
The technology sector spans very different business models: software-as-a-service (SaaS) with high margins and recurring revenue, chipmakers with massive capital spending and sharp cyclicality, and hardware companies highly exposed to supply-chain risk. What most of the sector shares: above-market growth rates, but also higher valuation multiples โ meaning high sensitivity to any shift in growth expectations.
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Average sector score
18
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Because the market prices in above-average future growth expectations โ which also makes them more sensitive to actual growth disappointing.
No. A profitable SaaS company with stable cash flow is fundamentally different from a capital-heavy chipmaker or a supply-chain-dependent hardware company โ worth checking each company on its own.