The good news for the Operators segment is that it has slowed the bleeding somewhat, in the past year. The average ‘growth’ was a 0.45% loss, which compares to a 2.19% loss when looking back at the entire period, to August 2022. However, topping and tailing the segment, to remove the best and worst performers, provides an average loss of 1.76% in the past year, and a 5.71% loss since August 2022. This compares to a 19.28% gain in the past year, for the stock indexes we use as context, and their 28.70% gain through the period. The Vendors segment, meanwhile, scored an adjusted average gain of 25.09% in the past year, and 36.76% since we started tracking. So, the…