Last weekend iShares tweeted a chart from Bloomberg.com that stopped me in my tracks (https://mobile.twitter.com/iShares/status/562816498323177472/photo/1!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");). It broke down all of the major industry sectors in the S&P 500 based on their cash on hand to debt ratios. This is an underutilized metric that probably needs to be employed more often. It's a great jumping off point that gives you a great picture of a sector's financial health before you start selecting individual stocks. No surprise that utilities have the lowest with just $200 million in the cash register versus $12.3 billion in debt on the books, or a cash on hand to debt ratio of just 2%. Clearly, it's good to have more cash than debt. So what sector was the king of the cash hill? Again, no surprise: information technology was head and shoulders above the rest. Read more