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Consumer Finance

Consumer Finance is losing market weight. Gained weight for 1 consecutive month.

Historical time machine
Historical observation
20182026
Declining fasterConcentrated

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

Universe weight
0.51%
$0.15T
12-month change
-0.44 pp
6-month change
-0.43 pp
3-month change
-0.38 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-0.249 pp
Industry total-0.444 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

Jan 2018 – Oct 2018 · market weight (%)

0.50.70.92018

Relative performance

Industry return versus ACWI · no future data shown

96991022018

Is participation broad or concentrated?

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

Above their 3M universe-weight average33%
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-0.44 pp
Relative strength · 12M+2.7%
Price index return · 12M-6.3%
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
American Express →
AXP
Consumer FinanceUnited States0.297%-0.195 pp+4.5%0.0
Capital One →
COF
Consumer FinanceUnited States0.145%-0.143 pp-13.0%0.0
Synchrony Financial →
SYF
Consumer FinanceUnited States0.070%-0.107 pp-26.1%0.0
Underlying monthly industry observations
MonthWeight1M change3M change6M change12M changeRelative return · 12M
Oct 20180.513%+0.002 pp-0.375 pp-0.434 pp-0.444 pp+2.7%
Sep 20180.510%-0.013 pp-0.425 pp-0.424 pp-0.446 pp-0.4%
Aug 20180.523%-0.365 pp-0.426 pp-0.431 pp-0.433 pp+1.4%
Jul 20180.888%-0.048 pp-0.059 pp-0.069 pp-0.069 pp-4.3%
Jun 20180.936%-0.014 pp+0.001 pp-0.021 pp-0.021 pp-1.0%
May 20180.949%+0.002 pp-0.005 pp-0.008 pp-0.008 pp-0.2%
Apr 20180.947%+0.012 pp-0.010 pp-0.010 pp-0.010 pp-1.4%
Mar 20180.935%-0.019 pp-0.022 pp-0.022 pp-0.022 pp-2.4%
Feb 20180.954%-0.003 pp-0.003 pp-0.003 pp-0.003 pp+0.4%
Jan 20180.957%+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.