On a relative basis, it has been a subpar year for big tech. Over the past year, the group rose 23%, but that lagged Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index by 7 percentage points. That’s one reason tech stocks, which historically have been more expensive than the broad stock market, are looking like bargains these days. The typical large tech-company stock trades at 14 times estimated 2014 profits, while the S&P 500 sells for 15 times earnings.
Technology Select Sector SPDR (symbol XLK) offers broad exposure to technology, but it’s not exactly a pure play on the sector. The exchange-traded fund tracks an index of 72 established firms in the S&P 500, including six telecom companies. The phone companies help boost the ETF’s dividend yield to 1.7%, close to the 2.0% yield of the S&P 500.
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