Industrials stocks have been red-hot this year — mostly. One analyst explains which stocks to buy and which to avoid.
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Industrials stocks have been red-hot this year — mostly. One analyst explains which stocks to buy and which to avoid.Listen(6 min)Listen(6 min)It’s Fed decision day, and with a rate cut all but baked in, investors will be hanging on every word Chair Jerome Powell has to say. While tech stocks have dominated this year, the S&P 500 industrials sector XLI has been the third-best performing sector, up 17%, behind a 26% return for info tech and a 32% gain for communications services.About the AuthorBarbara Kollmeyer is based in Madrid, where she leads MarketWatch's pre-markets coverage of financial markets and writes the Need to Know column. She has worked in London and Los Angeles for MarketWatch previously. Follow her on Twitter @bkollmeyer.Copyright © 2025 MarketWatch, Inc. All rights reserved.