The 2013 edition of the Almanac looks at the historic monthly performance of the FTSE 350 sectors. Here we look at the Travel & Leisure sector.
The following chart plots the average out-performance of the FTSE 350 Travel & Leisure sector over the FTSE 100 Index by month since 1999. For example, since 1999 on average the sector has out-performed the FTSE 100 Index by 2.1 percentage points in November.

Observations:
- The strongest months have been November and December – the sector has under-performed the market only three times in November in the last 14 years.
- The sector has no consistently weak months; although the sector has under-performed the market by an average of 2.6 percentage points in October, the sector has actually out-performed the market that month in eight of the past 14 years.
The 23 stocks in the FTSE 350 Travel & Leisure sector [NMX5750] are-
Betfair Group [BET] |
Ladbrokes [LAD] |
Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment [BPTY] |
Marston’s [MARS] |
Carnival [CCL] |
Millennium & Copthorne Hotels [MLC] |
Compass Group [CPG] |
Mitchells & Butlers [MAB] |
Domino’s Pizza UK & IRL [DOM] |
National Express Group [NEX] |
easyJet [EZJ] |
Playtech Ltd [PTEC] |
Enterprise Inns [ETI] |
Rank Group (The) [RNK] |
FirstGroup [FGP] |
Restaurant Group (The) [RTN] |
Go-Ahead Group (The) [GOG] |
Stagecoach Group [SGC] |
Greene King [GNK] |
TUI Travel [TT.] |
InterContinental Hotels Group [IHG] |
Wetherspoon (J D) [JDW] |
International Consolidated Airlines Group SA [IAG] |