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Information Technology — Historical Charts and Data

Every Information Technology chart, valuation metric, drawdown record, and constituent breakdown from History of Market. 6 panels, refreshed daily.

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XLK · 1998 to present — XLK's twenty-seven-year arc Listed December 1998, just before the dotcom peak. The curve contains a -83% collapse through 2002, a -50% GFC drawdown, a -34% 2022 print, and the AI-era recovery that followed. XLK · Annual Return — XLK's year-by-year ledger Complete years since 1999. The 1999 print of +75% sits at the extreme right tail; 2008's -42% at the extreme left. 2023-2024 stacked two AI-driven up-years in a row. XLK · Return Distribution — Twenty-seven years of annual returns, binned Mean is similar to semis, but the variance is a notch tighter — software, IT services, and payments-tech inside XLK damp the pure-hardware cycle.

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XLK · Intrayear DD vs Full Year — Twenty-seven years of intrayear depth Average intrayear drawdown ~-16%, between the S&P and the semis. But 2000, 2008 and 2022 each posted intrayear drops past -30%.

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XLK · Top Holdings & Cumulative Weight — XLK's top holdings AAPL + MSFT + NVDA already combine for more than 50% of the ETF — XLK is the most concentrated sector ETF in U.S. equities. Yahoo exposes the top 10 (~60% of the fund); the ~60-name tail sits below this view.

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GICS · 2018-09-24 Reshuffle — September 2018: a fifth of XLK swapped out in one day S&P and MSCI moved GOOGL, META, NFLX and others out of Information Technology into the newly formed Communication Services sector. XLK's long curve crosses this date, but the internal composition shifted meaningfully — read the chart with this seam in mind.