Data as of 3/26/2018. Past performance no guarantee of future results.

It remains to be seen whether the market is in the midst of a garden-variety 10% correction or if this is the start of a deeper bear market. But it does seem like this market is being held aloft buy a small handful of large-cap tech stocks: the infamous FAANGs.

Let's play with the numbers a little.

Data as of 3/26/2018. Past performance no guarantee of future results.

Data as of 3/26/2018. Past performance no guarantee of future results.

Now, let me be clear that this is by NO means a thorough analysis. This is a superficial first scan, and I plan to dig deeper this week.

includes one of the FAANGs — high flier Amazon.com (AMZN)— which makes its performance look better than it should. It also excludes stodgy old telecoms like  and Verizon (VZ), both of which have gotten obliterated this year as interest rates have risen… and which didn't participate at all in the rally earlier this month. Excluding telco also makes the ex-tech index look better than it should.