They manage an additional $2 billion in large-capitalization stocks for individuals and institutions.

And, secondly, many mutual funds now have grown to the size where they need large-capitalization stocks to put certain amounts of money to work.

For example, from 1988 to 1990, large-capitalization stocks did extremely well.

A recommendation to buy a large-capitalization stock usually doesn't move the stock.

As has almost always been the case in recent months, large-capitalization stocks outperformed their smaller brethren.

Blue chip and other large-capitalization stocks did proportionately worse than smaller issues yesterday.

If the investor immediately put the lump sum into large-capitalization stocks, for instance, after 20 years she would have about $36.3 million.

Drug issues also finished in positive territory, as traders continued to turn to large-capitalization stocks.

Others agree that blue-chip and large-capitalization stocks may be losing momentum.

"I think the next move will be people going into large-capitalization stocks with high dividend payments as a security measure," he said.