<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/427af1ea-f953-42ee-aaeb-24f7b5d7c908/C289ACDE-9231-404E-8D28-59525D8DC5C4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://usmarket.seekingalpha.com/article/34892?source=d_email&u=1996" href="http://usmarket.seekingalpha.com/article/34892?source=d_email&u=1996" style="font-size: 11px;">usmarket.seekingalpha.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://usmarket.seekingalpha.com/article/34892?source=d_email&u=1996">Majority U.S. vs. Foreign Revenue Performance Among S&amp;P 500 Members</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://usmarket.seekingalpha.com/article/34892?source=d_email&u=1996"><STRONG>Hickey and Walters (<A href="http://bespokeinvest.typepad.com/">Bespoke</A>) submit: </STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://usmarket.seekingalpha.com/article/34892?source=d_email&u=1996"> <P>we created two indices of S&amp;P 500 stocks based on each company's percentage of international sales.<A id=more-34892></A> Companies with more than half of their sales coming from outside the US (91) were divided into one group, while the remaining 409 stocks made up the other group. The performance of each group was then calculated and plotted in the chart below giving each stock an equal weight. </p> <P>Surprisingly, stocks that get more than half of their sales in the US are actually outperforming stocks with greater international exposure over the past year.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://usmarket.seekingalpha.com/article/34892?source=d_email&u=1996"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/usmarket.seekingalpha.com/img/E22F4033-92C8-40F1-9815-871CE6CA6D1E" alt="s&p by revenue" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C289ACDE-9231-404E-8D28-59525D8DC5C4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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