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Food Retail

Food Retail is gaining market weight. Gained weight for 1 consecutive month.

Historical time machine
Historical observation
20182026
Gaining steadilyConcentrated

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

Universe weight
0.11%
$0.02T
12-month change
+0.03 pp
6-month change
+0.00 pp
3-month change
+0.01 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

Sub-industries
Company attribution
Kroger →+0.032 pp
All other companies+0.000 pp
Industry total+0.032 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 – Nov 2019 · market weight (%)

0.10.10.120182019

Relative performance

Industry return versus ACWI · no future data shown

739010820182019

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+0.03 pp
Relative strength · 12M-16.9%
Price index return · 12M-5.7%
Earnings revisions · unavailable0.0
Allocation gained weight while relative performance fell. 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
Kroger →
KR
Food RetailUnited States0.110%+0.032 pp-5.7%0.0
Underlying monthly industry observations
MonthWeight1M change3M change6M change12M changeRelative return · 12M
Nov 20190.110%+0.007 pp+0.008 pp+0.004 pp+0.032 pp-16.9%
Oct 20190.103%-0.007 pp+0.013 pp-0.012 pp+0.023 pp-24.9%
Sep 20190.110%+0.007 pp+0.016 pp-0.003 pp+0.036 pp-10.9%
Aug 20190.103%+0.013 pp-0.003 pp-0.033 pp+0.022 pp-23.1%
Jul 20190.090%-0.004 pp-0.025 pp+0.015 pp-0.045 pp-27.7%
Jun 20190.093%-0.013 pp-0.019 pp+0.015 pp-0.044 pp-26.6%
May 20190.106%-0.009 pp-0.030 pp+0.027 pp-0.020 pp-3.4%
Apr 20190.115%+0.002 pp+0.040 pp+0.034 pp-0.018 pp-1.4%
Mar 20190.113%-0.023 pp+0.034 pp+0.039 pp-0.017 pp+1.9%
Feb 20190.136%+0.061 pp+0.057 pp+0.055 pp-0.008 pp+10.6%
Jan 20190.075%-0.004 pp-0.006 pp-0.060 pp-0.078 pp+2.4%
Dec 20180.078%-0.000 pp+0.004 pp-0.059 pp-0.074 pp+7.3%
Nov 20180.079%-0.002 pp-0.002 pp-0.048 pp-0.074 pp+7.4%
Oct 20180.080%+0.006 pp-0.054 pp-0.052 pp-0.072 pp+9.0%
Sep 20180.074%-0.007 pp-0.064 pp-0.055 pp-0.079 pp-1.3%
Aug 20180.081%-0.054 pp-0.045 pp-0.062 pp-0.072 pp+7.5%
Jul 20180.135%-0.003 pp+0.003 pp-0.018 pp-0.018 pp-0.8%
Jun 20180.138%+0.011 pp+0.008 pp-0.015 pp-0.015 pp+0.3%
May 20180.126%-0.006 pp-0.017 pp-0.027 pp-0.027 pp-14.8%
Apr 20180.132%+0.003 pp-0.020 pp-0.020 pp-0.020 pp-11.8%
Mar 20180.129%-0.014 pp-0.023 pp-0.023 pp-0.023 pp-15.8%
Feb 20180.143%-0.009 pp-0.009 pp-0.009 pp-0.009 pp-6.1%
Jan 20180.153%+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.