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Consumer Staples Merchandise Retail

Consumer Staples Merchandise Retail is gaining market weight. Gained weight for 2 consecutive months.

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Historical observation
20182026
Reversing upwardConcentrated

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

Universe weight
1.88%
$0.48T
12-month change
+0.09 pp
6-month change
-0.06 pp
3-month change
+0.02 pp
Company participation
60%
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
Costco →+0.125 pp
All other companies-0.034 pp
Industry total+0.090 pp

The three largest same-direction contributors explain 97% 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 – Sep 2022 · market weight (%)

0.11.02.020182019202020212022

Relative performance

Industry return versus ACWI · no future data shown

9613417220182019202020212022

Is participation broad or concentrated?

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

Above their 3M universe-weight average80%
Above their 6M universe-weight average60%
Above their 12M universe-weight average80%
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+0.09 pp
Relative strength · 12M+21.7%
Price index return · 12M-3.3%
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
Costco →
COST
Consumer Staples Merchandise RetailUnited States0.822%+0.125 pp+5.8%0.0
Target Corporation →
TGT
Consumer Staples Merchandise RetailUnited States0.268%-0.124 pp-34.0%0.0
Dollar Tree →
DLTR
Consumer Staples Merchandise RetailUnited States0.120%+0.044 pp+42.2%0.0
Dollar General →
DG
Consumer Staples Merchandise RetailUnited States0.213%+0.039 pp+14.0%0.0
Walmart →
WMT
Consumer Staples Merchandise RetailUnited States0.461%+0.006 pp-5.5%0.0
Underlying monthly industry observations
MonthWeight1M change3M change6M change12M changeRelative return · 12M
Sep 20221.884%+0.058 pp+0.019 pp-0.058 pp+0.090 pp+21.7%
Aug 20221.826%+0.005 pp+0.077 pp-0.009 pp+0.045 pp+17.4%
Jul 20221.820%-0.045 pp-0.250 pp+0.015 pp+0.002 pp+15.0%
Jun 20221.865%+0.116 pp-0.077 pp-0.001 pp+0.098 pp+17.1%
May 20221.749%-0.321 pp-0.085 pp-0.168 pp+0.017 pp+11.4%
Apr 20222.071%+0.129 pp+0.266 pp+0.204 pp+0.340 pp+32.1%
Mar 20221.942%+0.107 pp+0.075 pp+0.148 pp+1.047 pp+22.5%
Feb 20221.835%+0.029 pp-0.083 pp+0.054 pp+0.974 pp+17.9%
Jan 20221.805%-0.061 pp-0.061 pp-0.014 pp+0.725 pp+8.2%
Dec 20211.867%-0.051 pp+0.073 pp+0.100 pp-0.028 pp+8.3%
Nov 20211.918%+0.051 pp+0.137 pp+0.185 pp-0.152 pp+1.6%
Oct 20211.866%+0.072 pp+0.048 pp+0.135 pp-0.210 pp-3.2%
Sep 20211.794%+0.013 pp+0.027 pp+0.899 pp+1.791 pp-5.2%
Aug 20211.781%-0.038 pp+0.049 pp+0.921 pp+1.779 pp-0.8%
Jul 20211.819%+0.052 pp+0.088 pp+0.739 pp+1.817 pp+3.0%
Jun 20211.767%+0.034 pp+0.872 pp-0.128 pp+1.765 pp-1.4%
May 20211.732%+0.002 pp+0.872 pp-0.337 pp+1.730 pp-8.7%
Apr 20211.731%+0.836 pp+0.651 pp-0.345 pp-0.321 pp-8.6%
Mar 20210.895%+0.034 pp-1.000 pp+0.892 pp+0.893 pp-9.1%
Feb 20210.860%-0.220 pp-1.209 pp+0.858 pp+0.859 pp+1.2%
Jan 20211.080%-0.815 pp-0.996 pp+1.078 pp-0.691 pp+9.7%
Dec 20201.895%-0.174 pp+1.893 pp+1.893 pp+0.084 pp+12.1%
Nov 20202.069%-0.007 pp+2.067 pp+2.067 pp+0.204 pp+16.6%
Oct 20202.076%+2.074 pp+2.074 pp+0.024 pp+0.180 pp+16.8%
Sep 20200.002%+0.000 pp+0.000 pp+0.000 pp-1.919 pp+12.5%
Aug 20200.002%+0.000 pp-0.000 pp+0.001 pp-1.940 pp+6.3%
Jul 20200.002%-0.000 pp-2.050 pp-1.769 pp-1.751 pp+15.2%
Jun 20200.002%-0.000 pp+0.000 pp-1.809 pp-1.756 pp+15.7%
May 20200.002%-2.049 pp+0.001 pp-1.863 pp-1.749 pp+24.4%
Apr 20202.051%+2.050 pp+0.280 pp+0.155 pp+0.349 pp+30.5%
Mar 20200.002%+0.000 pp-1.810 pp-1.920 pp-1.706 pp+30.2%
Feb 20200.001%-1.770 pp-1.863 pp-1.941 pp-1.646 pp+16.9%
Jan 20201.771%-0.040 pp-0.125 pp+0.019 pp+0.852 pp+14.9%
Dec 20191.811%-0.054 pp-0.110 pp+0.053 pp+0.866 pp+13.7%
Nov 20191.865%-0.031 pp-0.078 pp+0.114 pp+0.924 pp+18.6%
Oct 20191.896%-0.025 pp+0.144 pp+0.193 pp+0.907 pp+14.3%
Sep 20191.921%-0.021 pp+0.163 pp+0.214 pp+0.999 pp+27.1%
Aug 20191.943%+0.190 pp+0.192 pp+0.295 pp+1.005 pp+27.3%
Jul 20191.752%-0.006 pp+0.050 pp+0.833 pp+0.150 pp+20.8%
Jun 20191.758%+0.007 pp+0.051 pp+0.813 pp+0.162 pp+21.2%
May 20191.751%+0.048 pp+0.104 pp+0.810 pp+0.234 pp+25.7%
Apr 20191.703%-0.005 pp+0.783 pp+0.714 pp+0.097 pp+14.4%
Mar 20191.707%+0.060 pp+0.762 pp+0.785 pp+0.141 pp+17.4%
Feb 20191.647%+0.728 pp+0.707 pp+0.710 pp+0.067 pp+11.7%
Jan 20190.920%-0.025 pp-0.069 pp-0.682 pp-0.717 pp+8.0%
Dec 20180.945%+0.005 pp+0.023 pp-0.651 pp-0.692 pp+10.6%
Nov 20180.940%-0.048 pp+0.003 pp-0.577 pp-0.696 pp+9.8%
Oct 20180.989%+0.066 pp-0.613 pp-0.617 pp-0.648 pp+14.2%
Sep 20180.923%-0.015 pp-0.674 pp-0.644 pp-0.714 pp+4.9%
Aug 20180.937%-0.665 pp-0.580 pp-0.643 pp-0.700 pp+5.6%
Jul 20181.602%+0.006 pp-0.004 pp-0.035 pp-0.035 pp-0.1%
Jun 20181.596%+0.079 pp+0.030 pp-0.041 pp-0.041 pp-1.4%
May 20181.517%-0.089 pp-0.063 pp-0.120 pp-0.120 pp-6.8%
Apr 20181.606%+0.040 pp-0.031 pp-0.031 pp-0.031 pp-2.8%
Mar 20181.566%-0.014 pp-0.071 pp-0.071 pp-0.071 pp-4.7%
Feb 20181.580%-0.057 pp-0.057 pp-0.057 pp-0.057 pp-3.6%
Jan 20181.637%+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.