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Insurance Brokers

Insurance Brokers is gaining market weight. Gained weight for 1 consecutive month.

Historical time machine
Historical observation
20182026
SlowingConcentrated

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

Universe weight
0.74%
$0.22T
12-month change
+0.44 pp
6-month change
+0.18 pp
3-month change
+0.04 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
All other companies+0.312 pp
Industry total+0.439 pp

The three largest same-direction contributors explain 73% 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 – Jan 2022 · market weight (%)

3.6509620182019202020212022

Relative performance

Industry return versus ACWI · no future data shown

10313717120182019202020212022

Is participation broad or concentrated?

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

Above their 3M universe-weight average20%
Above their 6M universe-weight average60%
Above their 12M universe-weight average60%
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+24.9%
Price index return · 12M+41.9%
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
Marsh McLennan →
MRSH
Insurance BrokersUnited States0.261%+0.127 pp+41.8%0.0
Willis Towers Watson →
WTW
Insurance BrokersUnited States0.098%+0.098 pp+16.8%0.0
Aon plc →
AON
Insurance BrokersUnited States0.205%+0.094 pp+37.1%0.0
Brown & Brown →
BRO
Insurance BrokersUnited States0.063%+0.063 pp+54.9%0.0
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. →
AJG
Insurance BrokersUnited States0.110%+0.057 pp+38.7%0.0
Underlying monthly industry observations
MonthWeight1M change3M change6M change12M changeRelative return · 12M
Jan 20220.737%+0.067 pp+0.044 pp+0.181 pp+0.439 pp+24.9%
Dec 20210.670%-0.006 pp+0.011 pp+0.130 pp+0.138 pp+24.6%
Nov 20210.675%-0.017 pp+0.093 pp+0.116 pp+0.135 pp+22.2%
Oct 20210.692%+0.034 pp+0.137 pp+0.134 pp+0.150 pp+23.0%
Sep 20210.659%+0.076 pp+0.119 pp+0.389 pp-99.242 pp+16.6%
Aug 20210.582%+0.026 pp+0.022 pp+0.316 pp-99.315 pp+17.2%
Jul 20210.556%+0.016 pp-0.003 pp+0.258 pp-99.349 pp+3.0%
Jun 20210.540%-0.020 pp+0.270 pp+0.008 pp-99.359 pp+3.2%
May 20210.560%+0.001 pp+0.293 pp+0.020 pp-99.336 pp+7.7%
Apr 20210.559%+0.289 pp+0.261 pp+0.017 pp-0.022 pp+15.4%
Mar 20210.270%+0.004 pp-0.262 pp-99.630 pp+0.270 pp+5.1%
Feb 20210.266%-0.032 pp-0.274 pp-99.631 pp+0.266 pp-1.8%
Jan 20210.298%-0.234 pp-0.244 pp-99.607 pp-0.329 pp-4.9%
Dec 20200.532%-0.008 pp-99.368 pp-99.366 pp-0.070 pp+5.3%
Nov 20200.540%-0.002 pp-99.357 pp-99.356 pp-0.062 pp+5.8%
Oct 20200.542%-99.358 pp-99.363 pp-0.039 pp-0.055 pp+8.7%
Sep 202099.900%+0.003 pp+0.002 pp+99.900 pp+99.300 pp+7.5%
Aug 202099.897%-0.008 pp+0.001 pp+99.897 pp+99.281 pp+1.0%
Jul 202099.905%+0.006 pp+99.324 pp+99.278 pp+99.311 pp+13.7%
Jun 202099.898%+0.002 pp+99.898 pp+99.296 pp+99.288 pp+8.1%
May 202099.896%+99.315 pp+99.896 pp+99.293 pp+99.271 pp+6.1%
Apr 20200.581%+0.580 pp-0.046 pp-0.016 pp-0.013 pp+6.3%
Mar 20200.000%-0.000 pp-0.602 pp-0.600 pp-0.590 pp+9.2%
Feb 20200.000%-0.627 pp-0.602 pp-0.616 pp-0.596 pp+14.0%
Jan 20200.627%+0.025 pp+0.030 pp+0.034 pp+0.311 pp+17.6%
Dec 20190.602%-0.000 pp+0.002 pp-0.008 pp+0.285 pp+11.9%
Nov 20190.603%+0.006 pp-0.014 pp-0.023 pp+0.275 pp+9.4%
Oct 20190.597%-0.003 pp+0.003 pp+0.003 pp+0.279 pp+10.8%
Sep 20190.600%-0.017 pp-0.010 pp+0.010 pp+0.305 pp+22.8%
Aug 20190.617%+0.023 pp-0.009 pp+0.020 pp+0.322 pp+27.3%
Jul 20190.594%-0.017 pp-0.000 pp+0.278 pp+0.069 pp+23.4%
Jun 20190.610%-0.015 pp+0.020 pp+0.293 pp+0.082 pp+25.4%
May 20190.625%+0.031 pp+0.029 pp+0.298 pp+0.097 pp+27.3%
Apr 20190.594%+0.004 pp+0.278 pp+0.276 pp+0.047 pp+15.8%
Mar 20190.590%-0.006 pp+0.273 pp+0.295 pp+0.045 pp+15.6%
Feb 20190.597%+0.281 pp+0.269 pp+0.302 pp+0.062 pp+19.2%
Jan 20190.316%-0.001 pp-0.002 pp-0.209 pp-0.200 pp+18.1%
Dec 20180.317%-0.010 pp+0.022 pp-0.211 pp-0.199 pp+17.8%
Nov 20180.328%+0.009 pp+0.033 pp-0.201 pp-0.189 pp+21.4%
Oct 20180.318%+0.023 pp-0.206 pp-0.229 pp-0.198 pp+17.4%
Sep 20180.295%+0.001 pp-0.233 pp-0.250 pp-0.221 pp+6.6%
Aug 20180.294%-0.230 pp-0.234 pp-0.240 pp-0.222 pp+5.5%
Jul 20180.525%-0.003 pp-0.023 pp+0.008 pp+0.008 pp+4.6%
Jun 20180.528%-0.000 pp-0.018 pp+0.012 pp+0.012 pp+3.4%
May 20180.528%-0.019 pp-0.006 pp+0.012 pp+0.012 pp+2.9%
Apr 20180.548%+0.002 pp+0.031 pp+0.031 pp+0.031 pp+5.5%
Mar 20180.546%+0.011 pp+0.029 pp+0.029 pp+0.029 pp+5.4%
Feb 20180.535%+0.018 pp+0.018 pp+0.018 pp+0.018 pp+4.0%
Jan 20180.516%+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.