A 25% gain from Broadcom has propelled the Vendor segment to new heights, in a week that saw a small decline from the operators. The question remains of how sustainable this growth really is, but while the vendors are collectively more volatile than the operators, at least the dial is moving in the right direction. The high-level adjusted view shows a 9.35% growth for the Vendors segment, with the Operators down 0.24%, and the Indexes up 0.53%. Again, the Vendors line is massively outperforming the rest of the stock market (represented by the Indexes). However, in terms of the actual average performance of each company, the Vendors segment reported a 2.24% gain this week – such was the outsized performance…