If you’re attempting to get a soar on the leaders of the subsequent bull market, you want to look ahead — not backward, in keeping with Kevin Barry, chief funding officer at Summit Monetary. Meaning not counting on earlier winners, like tech. The sector has been crushed on this 12 months’s bear market, main some to surprise if the sell-off has offered a chance to purchase. “Historical past has proven us that the leaders of the final bull market should not the leaders of this bull market, at the very least within the final 50 years,” Barry mentioned. Power, for as a substitute, outperformed within the ’70s, however client staples led the bull market within the Eighties, he mentioned. Tech rode the wave within the late ’90s and it took 20 years for it to rally again to these highs, Barry identified. This 12 months, tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite is down about 30%. “The concept of, ‘When does tech get low-cost sufficient to purchase’ is the mistaken thought,” Barry mentioned. “You have to be specializing in, ‘What will likely be management?'” In terms of what may lead the market by way of the subsequent bull market, power appears to be like promising, Barry mentioned. “My evaluation exhibits the quantity of capital reinvestments by the corporations themselves have been inadequate to extend provide and reliability of power and due to this fact I feel [energy] has a very good probability of outperforming,” he mentioned. The sector can be exhibiting indicators of each absolute management and relative management, he mentioned. “Proper now the [Inflation Reduction Act] incorporates some damaging issues for fossil fuels, however regardless of that the XLE retains rallying,” he mentioned. The Power Choose Sector SPDR Fund , XLE, is up about 57% 12 months to this point, but the exchange-traded fund has seen outflows of greater than $187 million in 2022, in keeping with FactSet. Conversely, the tech-heavy ARK Innovation ETF , led by Cathie Wooden, has misplaced greater than 60% this 12 months however has seen constructive inflows, Barry mentioned. Greater than $1 billion has poured into the fund this 12 months, information from FactSet exhibits. “Persons are nonetheless placing cash into attempting to get yesterday’s factor to occur once more,” Barry mentioned. Along with power, Barry thinks industrials look fascinating, notably aerospace and protection. The sector may even see restocking of supplies used within the Ukraine-Russia battle, he mentioned. Financials additionally may very well be poised to steer, notably insurance coverage. For example, as the price of residence repairs rise, individuals could also be upping their protection, he mentioned. “Property and casualty insurance coverage is making a brand new relative excessive, relative to every little thing else it’s doing effectively,” Barry mentioned. Whereas the most effective a part of financials is insurance coverage, regional and smaller banks also needs to fare effectively. Persons are nonetheless utilizing their credit score and debit playing cards, which give earnings within the type of charges and curiosity, the lending enterprise remains to be doing effectively and banks are benefiting from increased rates of interest, Barry mentioned. Total, he likes small-cap shares over giant cap as leaders of the subsequent bull market, worth over progress, U.S. over worldwide and equal-weight funds over market-weight funds. That might imply buyers shifting cash out of the market-weighted SPDR S & P 500 ETF Belief and into one thing just like the Invesco S & P 500 Equal Weight ETF , he mentioned.