Slacker Index
The Minyanville Slacker Index, or SLACK Index, is an equal-weighted index of eight slacker-related stocks. Although down a little more than 2% year-to-date, the SLACK Index has handily outperformed its benchmark index, the S&P 500, which is down a little more than 6%.
This relative outperformance typifies the slacker mentality of doing just enough to get by without actually showing a profit or breaking a sweat. Hey man, it could be worse. 
Minyanville Slacker Index Component Breakdown
- Anheuser Busch (BUD) produces half-bodied beers for the full-bodied slacker lifestyle. Not too expensive, not too cheap, not too delicious, not too anything, really. Just beer.
- Cash America (CSH) is America's largest pawn shop and payday loan service operator. It's estimated that over the course of a decade the average slacker will have paid more than $8,700 for the same $250 guitar through pawn shop loans.
- Electronic Arts (ERTS) develops, markets, publishes and distributes computer and video games.
- Kelly Services (KELYA) is a temporary staffing specialist. "I'm only temping here
while I save up money to open my own independent coffee shop," said Jim the Slacker. - La-Z-Boy (LZB). This company's too lazy to even spell out its own name. We like it.
- MasterCard (MA). Available credit $7.45? Sweet. Give me a pack of American Spirit Lights, please, and put it on the card.
- Netflix (NFLX) forever changed home theater. Why hustle to the DVD store when the DVDs can hustle to you?
- Urban Outfitters (URBN) is widely reputed to be the premier source of slacker beanbag chairs and useless lifestyle paraphernalia.
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I found him in the bathroom after lunch scrubbing away a ketchup stain on his shirt and complaining that he didn't have the P&G stain removing pen in his desk. He was crying over the fact that he was working so hard to clean a one inch square sopt on the shirt so he could be presentable for the rest of the day.
Poor slacker. The look of desperation on his face was priceless.
On February 6th at 03:38 PM
James Fraasch wrote:
Proctor and Gamble's stain removing pen has GOT to be added. Are you kidding? Do you mean I have a chance to never actually do laundry ever again? All I have to do is rub a little stain removing pen on my shirt and I am good to go until the next trip to the grub house! Count me in!
