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Apparel Retail

Apparel Retail is gaining market weight. Gained weight for 3 consecutive months.

Historical time machine
Historical observation
20182026
Reversing upwardConcentrated

Most of this industry's gains came from a few companies.

Universe weight
0.57%
$0.10T
12-month change
+0.23 pp
6-month change
+0.34 pp
3-month change
+0.36 pp
Company participation
100%
above their 6M weight average

Where did the weight change come from?

12-month contribution in universe percentage points · contributions add to the industry change

Company attribution
All other companies+0.025 pp
Industry total+0.235 pp

The three largest same-direction contributors explain 100% of gross gains. Opposing contributions can make an individual company’s change larger than the industry’s net change.

How has it moved through history?

Share of matched S&P 500 members

Jan 2018 – Feb 2019 · market weight (%)

0.20.40.620182019

Relative performance

Industry return versus ACWI · no future data shown

10112114020182019

Is participation broad or concentrated?

Actual constituent counts at this date, not the legacy synthetic breadth proxy

Above their 3M universe-weight average100%
Above their 6M universe-weight average100%
Above their 12M universe-weight average100%
Top 5 share of current industry market cap100.0%

This is size concentration, not contribution to the 12-month change. The attribution above measures the latter.

Evidence can disagree

Independent dimensions · no combined score or bullish/bearish verdict

Allocation · 12M+0.23 pp
Relative strength · 12M+25.0%
Price index return · 12M+24.5%
Earnings revisions · unavailable0.0
Allocation gained weight while relative performance rose. At least half of constituents are above their 6M weight average. These observations need not agree.
Other evidence and availability

Valuation data: unavailable; shown as zero placeholder.

Attention data: unavailable; shown as zero placeholder.

Actual fund flows: unavailable. No ETF, mutual-fund or institutional flow feed is connected.

Volume / turnover: unavailable in this dataset.

Follow the contribution to individual companies

Sorted by absolute 12-month weight contribution, not investment merit

CompanySub-industryCountryUniverse weight12M contribution12M price returnRevisions
TJX Companies →
TJX
Apparel RetailUnited States0.367%+0.210 pp+26.1%0.0
Ross Stores →
ROST
Apparel RetailUnited States0.204%+0.025 pp+22.7%0.0
Underlying monthly industry observations
MonthWeight1M change3M change6M change12M changeRelative return · 12M
Feb 20190.570%+0.255 pp+0.361 pp+0.344 pp+0.235 pp+25.0%
Jan 20190.315%+0.007 pp+0.074 pp-0.055 pp-0.010 pp+27.9%
Dec 20180.307%+0.098 pp+0.079 pp-0.067 pp-0.017 pp+24.5%
Nov 20180.209%-0.031 pp-0.017 pp-0.144 pp-0.115 pp+23.6%
Oct 20180.241%+0.012 pp-0.128 pp-0.111 pp-0.084 pp+41.3%
Sep 20180.229%+0.002 pp-0.145 pp-0.112 pp-0.096 pp+32.1%
Aug 20180.227%-0.143 pp-0.126 pp-0.109 pp-0.098 pp+29.3%
Jul 20180.369%-0.005 pp+0.018 pp+0.045 pp+0.045 pp+16.8%
Jun 20180.374%+0.021 pp+0.033 pp+0.050 pp+0.050 pp+17.2%
May 20180.353%+0.001 pp+0.018 pp+0.029 pp+0.029 pp+9.3%
Apr 20180.352%+0.011 pp+0.027 pp+0.027 pp+0.027 pp+7.8%
Mar 20180.341%+0.006 pp+0.017 pp+0.017 pp+0.017 pp+4.2%
Feb 20180.335%+0.011 pp+0.011 pp+0.011 pp+0.011 pp+3.2%
Jan 20180.324%+0.000 pp+0.000 pp+0.000 pp+0.000 pp+0.0%
How are these descriptive states defined?

Gaining / losing: 12-month weight change above +0.005pp / below −0.005pp. Direction and speed are separate dimensions, not mutually exclusive recommendations.

Accelerating / slowing: compare the most recent 3M change with the preceding 3M change. Accelerating means a positive change speeds up by >0.02pp. Slowing means the magnitude of movement declines by >0.02pp. A falling industry can also slow.

Reversing: the last two 3M changes have opposite signs, outside a ±0.005pp tolerance. Persistence counts consecutive same-direction monthly changes.

Broad / concentrated: company attribution, not a market-cap concentration shortcut. Concentrated means the three largest same-direction contributors account for ≥70% of gross same-direction changes; otherwise broad requires ≥60% of constituents moving with the industry. Other cases are mixed.

Weights use matched S&P 500 members’ market-cap estimates, based on SEC-reported shares available by each month-end and monthly closing prices. Companies without a matched price or share record are omitted, so the denominator is the matched sample rather than every index member. These are not official float-adjusted S&P weights. Flow is not measured.