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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
0.47%
$0.16T
12-month change
+0.02 pp
6-month change
-0.00 pp
3-month change
+0.02 pp
Company participation
50%
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+0.010 pp
Industry total+0.022 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

Mar 2019 – Feb 2024 · market weight (%)

0.00.30.620202021202220232024

Relative performance

Industry return versus ACWI · no future data shown

10012515020202021202220232024

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 average50%
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+0.02 pp
Relative strength · 12M+7.8%
Price index return · 12M+32.9%
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 States0.324%+0.013 pp+31.4%0.0
Ross Stores →
ROST
Apparel RetailUnited States0.144%+0.010 pp+36.4%0.0
Underlying monthly industry observations
MonthWeight1M change3M change6M change12M changeRelative return · 12M
Feb 20240.467%+0.005 pp+0.017 pp-0.002 pp+0.022 pp+7.8%
Jan 20240.462%+0.004 pp-0.014 pp+0.160 pp-0.001 pp+3.8%
Dec 20230.458%+0.007 pp-0.010 pp+0.144 pp-0.018 pp-1.9%
Nov 20230.451%-0.025 pp-0.019 pp+0.145 pp-0.002 pp+0.5%
Oct 20230.476%+0.009 pp+0.174 pp+0.046 pp+0.061 pp+11.7%
Sep 20230.467%-0.002 pp+0.154 pp+0.035 pp+0.069 pp+18.0%
Aug 20230.469%+0.168 pp+0.164 pp+0.024 pp+0.102 pp+29.8%
Jul 20230.302%-0.012 pp-0.128 pp-0.161 pp-0.042 pp+27.5%
Jun 20230.314%+0.008 pp-0.118 pp-0.162 pp-0.036 pp+34.3%
May 20230.306%-0.125 pp-0.139 pp-0.147 pp-0.070 pp+21.6%
Apr 20230.430%-0.002 pp-0.033 pp+0.015 pp+0.043 pp+20.3%
Mar 20230.432%-0.013 pp-0.044 pp+0.034 pp+0.086 pp+37.4%
Feb 20230.445%-0.018 pp-0.008 pp+0.078 pp+0.059 pp+30.1%
Jan 20230.463%-0.013 pp+0.048 pp+0.119 pp+0.058 pp+28.1%
Dec 20220.476%+0.024 pp+0.078 pp+0.126 pp+0.057 pp+29.3%
Nov 20220.453%+0.038 pp+0.085 pp+0.077 pp+0.042 pp+29.2%
Oct 20220.415%+0.017 pp+0.071 pp+0.028 pp+0.017 pp+28.6%
Sep 20220.398%+0.031 pp+0.048 pp+0.052 pp-0.016 pp+13.4%
Aug 20220.367%+0.023 pp-0.009 pp-0.018 pp-0.067 pp-1.3%
Jul 20220.344%-0.006 pp-0.043 pp-0.061 pp-0.091 pp-8.3%
Jun 20220.350%-0.026 pp+0.004 pp-0.069 pp-0.093 pp-11.6%
May 20220.376%-0.011 pp-0.010 pp-0.035 pp-0.078 pp-7.9%
Apr 20220.387%+0.041 pp-0.018 pp-0.010 pp-0.093 pp-10.9%
Mar 20220.346%-0.039 pp-0.073 pp-0.068 pp+0.107 pp-18.4%
Feb 20220.386%-0.019 pp-0.025 pp-0.048 pp+0.144 pp-12.8%
Jan 20220.405%-0.015 pp+0.007 pp-0.030 pp+0.126 pp-7.2%
Dec 20210.419%+0.009 pp+0.005 pp-0.024 pp-0.090 pp-10.5%
Nov 20210.411%+0.013 pp-0.023 pp-0.043 pp-0.075 pp-9.7%
Oct 20210.397%-0.017 pp-0.037 pp-0.082 pp-0.035 pp-3.9%
Sep 20210.414%-0.019 pp-0.029 pp+0.175 pp+0.414 pp-6.2%
Aug 20210.434%-0.001 pp-0.020 pp+0.192 pp+0.433 pp+3.4%
Jul 20210.435%-0.009 pp-0.045 pp+0.156 pp+0.434 pp+1.0%
Jun 20210.443%-0.010 pp+0.204 pp-0.066 pp+0.443 pp-0.7%
May 20210.453%-0.026 pp+0.212 pp-0.033 pp+0.453 pp-8.5%
Apr 20210.480%+0.240 pp+0.200 pp+0.048 pp-0.031 pp-1.3%
Mar 20210.240%-0.002 pp-0.269 pp+0.239 pp+0.239 pp-10.3%
Feb 20210.241%-0.038 pp-0.245 pp+0.241 pp+0.241 pp-15.7%
Jan 20210.279%-0.230 pp-0.153 pp+0.279 pp-0.270 pp-10.4%
Dec 20200.509%+0.023 pp+0.509 pp+0.509 pp-0.056 pp-5.5%
Nov 20200.486%+0.054 pp+0.485 pp+0.485 pp-0.098 pp-12.8%
Oct 20200.432%+0.431 pp+0.431 pp-0.079 pp-0.138 pp-19.3%
Sep 20200.000%+0.000 pp+0.000 pp+0.000 pp-0.568 pp-14.1%
Aug 20200.000%+0.000 pp-0.000 pp+0.000 pp-0.571 pp-18.1%
Jul 20200.000%-0.000 pp-0.510 pp-0.549 pp-0.557 pp-14.1%
Jun 20200.000%-0.000 pp+0.000 pp-0.565 pp-0.540 pp-8.8%
May 20200.001%-0.510 pp+0.000 pp-0.583 pp-0.554 pp+0.3%
Apr 20200.511%+0.510 pp-0.038 pp-0.059 pp-0.061 pp-2.4%
Mar 20200.000%-0.000 pp-0.565 pp-0.569 pp-0.575 pp+4.0%
Feb 20200.000%-0.549 pp-0.584 pp-0.571 pp-0.570 pp+12.8%
Jan 20200.549%-0.016 pp-0.021 pp-0.009 pp+0.234 pp+5.3%
Dec 20190.565%-0.019 pp-0.004 pp+0.025 pp+0.258 pp+10.4%
Nov 20190.584%+0.014 pp+0.012 pp+0.029 pp+0.375 pp+14.9%
Oct 20190.570%+0.001 pp+0.012 pp-0.002 pp+0.329 pp-3.2%
Sep 20190.569%-0.003 pp+0.028 pp-0.006 pp+0.340 pp+4.2%
Aug 20190.572%+0.014 pp+0.017 pp+0.001 pp+0.345 pp+6.4%
Jul 20190.558%+0.017 pp-0.014 pp+0.243 pp+0.189 pp+14.3%
Jun 20190.541%-0.014 pp-0.035 pp+0.233 pp+0.166 pp+9.0%
May 20190.555%-0.017 pp-0.016 pp+0.345 pp+0.201 pp+17.7%
Apr 20190.572%-0.003 pp+0.257 pp+0.331 pp+0.220 pp+20.4%
Mar 20190.575%+0.005 pp+0.268 pp+0.346 pp+0.234 pp+24.1%
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.