What does sector mean for stock investors？
What does sector mean for stock investors？
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What is a sector?
什么是部门？
A stock market sector is a group of stocks that have a lot in common with each other, usually because they are in similar industries.
股市板块是一组彼此有很多共同点的股票，通常是因为它们属于相似的行业。
According to the most commonly used classification system: the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), there are 11 different stock market sectors:
根据最常用的分类系统：根据全球行业分类标准(GICS)，有11个不同的股票市场板块：
Energy
Materials
Industrials
Utilities
Healthcare
Financials
Consumer Discretionary
Consumer Staples
Information Technology
Communication Services
Real Estate
能量
材料
工业类股
公用事业
医疗保健
金融类股
消费者可自由支配
消费者史泰博(Consumer Staples)
资讯科技
通信服务
房地产
Source: Investment U
来源：Investment U
Pick a sector you are familiar with or interested in could be a good starting point to invest in stocks.
选择一个你熟悉或感兴趣的行业可能是投资股票的一个很好的起点。
What does sector mean for investors?
行业对投资者意味着什么？
We categorize stocks into sectors to make it easy to compare companies that have similar business models. When investing, you can choose from stocks within the sectors that interest you. Sectors also make it easier to compare which stocks are making the most money. This helps you make decisions about what your next investments will be.
我们将股票按行业分类，以便于比较业务模式相似的公司。在投资时，你可以从你感兴趣的行业内的股票中进行选择。各板块也让人们更容易比较哪些股票赚的钱最多。这可以帮助你对下一步的投资做出决定。
Source: A Wealth of Common Sense
资料来源：常识财富
Takeway：If you bought a Technology stock in 2017, you probably had a very nice investment return
总结：如果你在2017年购买了一只科技股，你可能会获得非常不错的投资回报
Certain sectors perform better than others, so if the market is heading higher, we want to buy stocks within sectors that are performing the best. In other words, we want to invest in sectors that are outperforming the overall market.
某些板块的表现好于其他板块，因此，如果市场走高，我们希望买入表现最好的板块内的股票。换句话说，我们希望投资于表现优于整体市场的行业。
For example, the technology sector might be up 10% versus a 3% rise in the overall market, as measured by a benchmark such as the S&P 500 index.
例如，以标准普尔500指数(S&P500 index)等基准衡量，科技类股可能上涨10%，而整体市场涨幅为3%。
How investors view sectors?
投资者如何看待行业？
Stocks tend to follow the performance of their respective sector, in addition to the overall stock market. Keeping abreast of the market can make it easier to determine when a stock that belongs to a particular sector has bottomed out.
除了整体股市，股市往往还会跟随各自板块的表现。与市场保持同步，可以更容易地确定属于特定板块的股票何时触底。
For example, many investors conducted sector analysis on Friday, June 1, 2018, for the investment week of May 29, 2018, to June 1. As of that Friday, shares of companies in the coal industry group were the top performers with a return of 10.25%, while automobiles came in second with a growth of 6.12%. The automobile industry received a boost from shares of General Motors (GM) that rose on news that Softbank Vision Fund planned to invest $2 billion in the automaker's self-driving cars.
例如，许多投资者在2018年6月1日(周五)对2018年5月29日至6月1日的投资周进行了行业分析，截至该周五，煤炭行业集团公司股票以10.25%的回报率位居榜首，汽车类股以6.12%的增速位居第二。通用汽车(General Motors)股价因软银愿景基金(Softbank Vision Fund)计划向这家汽车制造商的自动驾驶汽车投资20亿美元的消息而上涨，这提振了汽车业。
Source: The Motley Fool, Investopedia
来源：The Motley Fool，Investopedia
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