On June 5, Invesco PHLX Semiconductor ETF declined 8.08% in regular trading, trading at $98.79/share, with trading volume of $369 million.
On the news front, the global semiconductor sector faced concentrated selling pressure as massive profit-taking swept through the industry. The semiconductor sector had accumulated substantial gains — with benchmark semiconductor equipment indices surging over 136% in the past year and nearly 52% year-to-date — leading to highly crowded institutional positioning. As market sentiment weakened, concentrated unwinding of positions at elevated levels triggered broad-based declines, with previously top-performing names leading the selloff. Major brokerages had previously flagged stretched valuations and overcrowded positioning in global tech stocks as the most significant near-term risk.
The fund generally invests at least 90% of its total assets in securities comprising its underlying index, which is a modified market-capitalization weighted index designed to measure the performance of the 30 largest U.S.-listed companies engaged in the semiconductor business. The fund is non-diversified.
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