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Apparel Retail

Apparel Retail is losing market weight. Lost weight for 2 consecutive months.

Historical time machine
Historical observation
20182026
Reversing downwardConcentrated

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

Universe weight
0.34%
$0.25T
12-month change
-0.08 pp
6-month change
-0.08 pp
3-month change
-0.11 pp
Company participation
0%
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-0.012 pp
Industry total-0.079 pp

The three largest same-direction contributors explain 100% of gross losses. 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 2021 – Feb 2026 · market weight (%)

0.20.40.520222023202420252026

Relative performance

Industry return versus ACWI · no future data shown

10113316520222023202420252026

Is participation broad or concentrated?

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

Above their 3M universe-weight average0%
Above their 6M universe-weight average0%
Above their 12M universe-weight average0%
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-0.08 pp
Relative strength · 12M+9.1%
Price index return · 12M+35.3%
Earnings revisions · unavailable0.0
Allocation lost weight while relative performance rose. Fewer than 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 States0.246%-0.067 pp+31.2%0.0
Ross Stores →
ROST
Apparel RetailUnited States0.091%-0.012 pp+48.2%0.0
Underlying monthly industry observations
MonthWeight1M change3M change6M change12M changeRelative return · 12M
Feb 20260.338%-0.097 pp-0.107 pp-0.077 pp-0.079 pp+9.1%
Jan 20260.435%-0.013 pp+0.028 pp+0.048 pp+0.013 pp+0.7%
Dec 20250.448%+0.003 pp+0.027 pp+0.061 pp+0.027 pp+3.3%
Nov 20250.445%+0.038 pp+0.030 pp+0.020 pp+0.019 pp+2.0%
Oct 20250.407%-0.014 pp+0.020 pp-0.048 pp-0.002 pp-0.1%
Sep 20250.421%+0.006 pp+0.034 pp-0.004 pp-0.004 pp+0.8%
Aug 20250.415%+0.028 pp-0.010 pp-0.002 pp-0.026 pp-2.8%
Jul 20250.387%+0.000 pp-0.068 pp-0.035 pp+0.073 pp-7.2%
Jun 20250.387%-0.038 pp-0.038 pp-0.034 pp+0.063 pp-8.3%
May 20250.425%-0.030 pp+0.008 pp-0.001 pp+0.113 pp+4.2%
Apr 20250.455%+0.030 pp+0.033 pp+0.046 pp+0.020 pp+15.9%
Mar 20250.425%+0.008 pp+0.004 pp+0.000 pp-0.032 pp+3.8%
Feb 20250.417%-0.005 pp-0.009 pp-0.024 pp-0.050 pp+2.0%
Jan 20250.422%+0.001 pp+0.014 pp+0.108 pp-0.040 pp+4.1%
Dec 20240.421%-0.005 pp-0.004 pp+0.097 pp-0.037 pp+5.9%
Nov 20240.426%+0.018 pp-0.015 pp+0.114 pp-0.025 pp+8.4%
Oct 20240.409%-0.016 pp+0.094 pp-0.026 pp-0.067 pp-3.4%
Sep 20240.425%-0.016 pp+0.101 pp-0.033 pp-0.042 pp+1.9%
Aug 20240.441%+0.126 pp+0.129 pp-0.026 pp-0.028 pp+3.4%
Jul 20240.315%-0.010 pp-0.120 pp-0.147 pp+0.013 pp+11.9%
Jun 20240.324%+0.012 pp-0.133 pp-0.134 pp+0.010 pp+10.3%
May 20240.312%-0.122 pp-0.155 pp-0.138 pp+0.007 pp+10.2%
Apr 20240.434%-0.023 pp-0.028 pp-0.042 pp+0.004 pp+4.0%
Mar 20240.458%-0.010 pp-0.000 pp-0.010 pp+0.026 pp+8.6%
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%
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.