How Every S&P 500 Sector Performed in Q1 2025

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This chart breaks down the Q1 2025 performance of every sector in the S&P 500, highlighting sectoral returns alongside their respective index weightings.

The data comes from S&P Global, and figures are sourced from TradingView.

How S&P Sectors Performed in Q1 2025

• The S&P 500 index remains in negative territory in 2025, down 4.6% in Q1. 
• The energy sector outperformed, rising 9.3%, followed by defensive sectors like health care (6.1%), consumer staples (4.6%), and utilities (4.1%). These sectors typically tend to be less sensitive to market downturns. 
• Information technology, the S&P’s largest sector at nearly 30% weight, plunged 12.8%—dragging the index into negative territory as mega-cap stocks stumbled amid economic uncertainty and interest rate volatility. 
• The consumer discretionary sector, which includes Tesla, saw the sharpest losses, down 14% in Q1 2025. It’s also the fourth-largest sector in the index by weight. 
• With the Trump administration’s latest reciprocal tariffs, recession fears have gotten worse, and stocks are likely to react negatively in the short term.