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What Do CIO's Think About Stock Returns Across 2026?

By John Blank | November 20, 2025, 4:04 PM

Time once again to review the latest U.S. market cap style (large, mid, & small) and SPDR sector results -- from Zacks latest quarterly CIO survey’s outlook for next year. For that we consult with our Chief Equity Strategist and Economist, John Blank, for the CIO responses to 6 questions.

1. First, Large Cap stocks. How did they feel about value vs growth?

2. What about mid caps? Which performs better value or growth?

3. Same question for small caps.

4. Which sectors are expected to be outperformers?

5. Do these findings surprise you at all?

6. How much of this outlook do you expect to be earnings driven?

7. What core themes should be taken away from this survey?

8. Meantime, a roller-coaster 2025 in the stock market will be coming to a close shortly. What do you expect to set the tone for these next few weeks?

9. You recently picked the 3 biggest, by market capitalization, Zacks #1 Rank stocks to watch including ASML Holding ASML, Morgan Stanley MS and Micron MU.

Our Chief Equity Strategist and Economist, John Blank, on the latest CIO survey.

With John, I’m Terry Ruffolo.

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This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research (zacks.com).

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