The US equity market made its most recent peak on June 8th.  From the March 23rd low through June 8th, the average stock in the large-cap Russell 1,000 was up more than 65%!  Since June 8th, the average stock in the index is down more than 11%.  Below we have broken the index into deciles (10 groups of 100 stocks each) based on simple share price as of June 8th.  Decile 1 (marked “Highest” in the chart) contains the 10% of stocks with the highest share prices.  Decile 10 (marked “Lowest” in the chart) contains the 10% of stocks with the lowest share prices.  As shown, the highest priced decile of stocks are down an average of just 4.8% since June 8th, while the lowest priced decile of stocks are down an average of 21.5%.  It’s pretty remarkable how performance gets weaker and weaker the lower the share price gets.  Like what you see? Click here to view Bespoke’s premium membership options for our best research available.