QSR: Franchise Sector Outperformed Overall Market in 2017

QSR is reporting a major benchmark for the franchise sector, which according to the University of New Hampshire’s RIFC 50 Index, outperformed the overall market (represented in the S&P 500 Index) in 2017.

The RIFC Index was first published by University of New Hampshire’s Rosenberg International Franchise Center in 2002. The index—a stock portfolio comprising 50 U.S. public franchising companies—was designed to track the financial performance of the U.S. franchise sector. The RIFC 50 Index was up 28.6 percent in 2017 while the S&P 500 was up just 19.4 percent.

“This is a significant change considering our index underperformed for 6 quarters in 2015 and 2016 in comparison to the S&P 500,” said RIFC 50 Index developer and director of the Rosenberg International Franchise Center at UNH’s Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics Dr. E. Hachemi Aliouche.

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