Which Segment Did You Bet On?
Executive Summary
Stockholders didn't do well with most Big Cap indices, but they did a lot than with Big Pharma-which lost $270 billion of market value over five years. Not that life sciences in general wasn't a good place to park your savings. According to our market cap analysis of health care industry segments, you would have done extremely well to have invested in medical devices-the best performing sector in our universe.