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] | |
