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One of my favorite features of YCharts is the ability to drill down into an index.

So it could be the Russell 2000 Small Caps, it could be some international index.

This week I looked at the individual holdings of the S&P 500 and I broke them out into 50 stock

increments and I looked at their median market cap, price to earnings, price to sales, price to cash,

little price to book, and then year-to-day returns.

And we're going to talk about that on the show today.

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measurables to figure out what is going on underlying in the index and what is really

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