Does extreme performance concentration signal a turning point for value stocks?

Market breadth in S&P 500 has 'never been so narrow'

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Year-to-date around 85% of the move in the S&P 500 index is explained by just five stocks – FAAGM (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet/Google and Microsoft).

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