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Corn vs the S&P 500 (CORN): is it outperforming?

Over the past month, CORN has outperformed the S&P 500 by 6.5 points. Here is where that puts it in the market rotation — updated daily.

1M spread vs SPY
+6.5 pts
Quadrant
Outperformers
Momentum
Strong
RS health
Strong
Holdings P/E

Where CORN sits on the rotation map

Corn highlighted against the 11 broad S&P 500 sectors. Vertical: 1-month spread vs the S&P 500. Horizontal: the longer, time-shifted window — the methodology explains the math.

CORN vs SPY: head-to-head returns

CORN (corn) and SPY (the S&P 500) side by side over every window Zensei tracks. The spread is the difference — positive means CORN won that window.

Window
CORN
SPY
Spread
1 week+4.9%+0.5%+4.5 pts
2 weeks+11.4%−1.1%+12.5 pts
1 month+10.3%+3.8%+6.5 pts
3 months+11.3%+2.0%+9.3 pts
6 months+11.5%+12.7%−1.2 pts
1 year+15.6%+19.9%−4.3 pts

Data as of 2026-08-28 · computed from daily adjusted closes · how we measure

The read

Corn (CORN) sits in the Outperformers quadrant of the rotation map: it has decisively beaten the S&P 500 by 6.5 points over the past month, on top of a 2.7-point advantage over the longer, time-shifted window. Ranked by one-month spread, it currently stands #27 of the 115 groups Zensei tracks.

On the shorter tape, CORN's momentum reads strong: the recent hourly trend is positive across every lookback Zensei measures. CORN's relative-strength line — its price ratio against the S&P 500 — is trading above its moving averages, the healthiest configuration we track. The two signals agree — the short-term tape and the longer trend point the same way.

The thing to watch from here is durability: outperformers that hold their one-month spread while the longer window keeps building tend to stay out front; a fading spread is the early exit signal.

What's inside CORN

Top 1 of 1 tracked holdings, by portfolio weight.

Holding
Weight
1M
FGTXXGOLDMAN SACHS FS GOVERNMENT INSTL
46.1%+0.3%

Corn vs the market — common questions

Is corn outperforming the S&P 500?

Right now, yes: over the past month CORN has outperformed the S&P 500 by 6.5 points. This page updates daily, so the answer reflects current market data rather than a dated article.

What is CORN?

CORN is Teucrium Corn Fund, the fund Zensei uses to measure the corn group against the S&P 500 benchmark (SPY).

What quadrant is corn in right now?

As of the latest daily data, corn is in the Outperformers quadrant — outperforming the S&P 500 on both the recent and the longer, time-shifted window. The quadrant rules are documented on the Zensei methodology page.

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