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How every sector of the S&P 500 has been impacted by the coronavirus selloff

As the pandemic crisis escalated, U.S. stocks plunged from an all-time high on Feb. 19 into a bear market. To put the historic reversal in perspective, we crunched the numbers for all 24 of the S&P 500 industry categories compared with the past two market collapses.
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How every sector of the S&P 500 has been impacted by the coronavirus selloff
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This article is part of a Fortune Special Report: Business in the Coronavirus Economy—a look at the impact of the pandemic on more than 50 industries.

So far, this year has already featured the worst month for stocks (March) since October 2008 and the best week (early April) since 1974. But as chaotic and painful as the market swoon has been, it hasn’t yet surpassed the last major meltdown. Only one industry has plunged further from its high than it did during the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009—energy, thanks to an oil price war this spring between Russia and Saudi Arabia. Stock valuations, as measured by price/ earnings ratios, have stayed relatively buoyant too. Of course, it could be early days. The bear market that began in 2007 lasted 517 days. And it took 929 days to start a new bull market after the dotcom bubble burst. The good news: In both cases, stocks eventually soared again.

Sources: Bloomberg; Yardeni Research

A version of this article appears in the May 2020 issue of Fortune with the headline “A selloff, sector by sector?”

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