March 2017 – For the fourth quarter of 2016, the SCA Business Services Index increase by 2.99% consistent with an increase of 3.59% for the S&P 500. The Business Services sector, like the overall market, was driven by investors’ post-election expectations for…
November 2016 – For the third quarter of 2016, the SCA Business Services Index increased by 0.9% compared to an increase of 3.1% for the S&P 500. While the overall Business Services sector underperformed relative to…
August 2016 – For the second quarter of 2016, the SCA Business Services Index decreased by 1.5% compared to an increase of 1.3% for the S&P 500. The Business Services sector’s overall underperformance relative to…
May 2016 – For the first quarter of 2016, the SCA Business Services Index increased by 6.4% compared to an increase of 2.3% for the S&P 500. While the Business Services Index overall outperformed…
February 2016 – After a substantial number of new private equity investments into the Business Services sector during the first three quarters 2015, the fourth quarter saw a wave of strategic consolidation. In particular, acquisitions of …
November 2015 – While the SCA Business Services Index outperformed the broader market indices in Q3 2015, it also experienced the overall decline felt by the broader market. For the quarter…
August 2015 – The SCA Business Services once again outperformed the broader market indices in Q2 2015, increasing by 2.2% compared to an increase of 0.2% for the S&P 500. However, despite the sector’s overall positive performance, there was significant variability among…
May 2015 – The SCA Business Services Index significantly outperformed the broader markets in Q1 2015, increasing by 10.2% compared to an increase of 0.5% for the S&P 500. While virtually all subsectors of the SCA Business Services Index outperformed the broader market, the SCA…
February 2015 – After underperforming for much of 2014, the SCA Business Services Index outperformed the broader markets in Q4 2014, increasing by over 11.2 % compared to an increase of 5.8% for the S&P 500. Virtually all subsectors of the SCA Business Services Index outperformed the broader market as a result of consensus predictions of enhanced economic growth in the U.S. during 2015. In particular…
November 2014 – The SCA Business Services Index underperformed the broader markets in Q3 2014, declining by 4.5% compared to an increase of 0.5% for the S&P 500. In particular, the SCA Marketing Services sector (down 17.0%), the SCA Professional Staffing sector (down 10.0%), and the SCA IT Consulting sector (down 5.0%) reflected growing concerns about…