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Investment Banking & Brokerage

Investment Banking & Brokerage is gaining market weight. Gained weight for 5 consecutive months.

Historical time machine
Historical observation
20182026
Reversing upwardConcentrated

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

Universe weight
1.49%
$0.85T
12-month change
+0.09 pp
6-month change
-0.02 pp
3-month change
+0.44 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

Company attribution
All other companies-0.004 pp
Industry total+0.094 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

Aug 2021 – Jul 2026 · market weight (%)

0.81.21.520222023202420252026

Relative performance

Industry return versus ACWI · no future data shown

10213015920222023202420252026

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+0.09 pp
Relative strength · 12M+10.5%
Price index return · 12M+35.1%
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
Morgan Stanley →
MS
Investment Banking & BrokerageUnited States0.579%+0.097 pp+51.1%0.0
Goldman Sachs →
GS
Investment Banking & BrokerageUnited States0.524%+0.056 pp+43.6%0.0
Charles Schwab Corporation →
SCHW
Investment Banking & BrokerageUnited States0.319%-0.055 pp+9.1%0.0
Raymond James Financial →
RJF
Investment Banking & BrokerageUnited States0.060%-0.011 pp+6.7%0.0
Interactive Brokers →
IBKR
Investment Banking & BrokerageUnited States0.006%+0.006 pp+34.8%0.0
Underlying monthly industry observations
MonthWeight1M change3M change6M change12M changeRelative return · 12M
Jul 20261.490%+0.062 pp+0.442 pp-0.025 pp+0.094 pp+10.5%
Jun 20261.428%+0.017 pp+0.396 pp-0.056 pp+0.048 pp+8.6%
May 20261.411%+0.364 pp+0.423 pp+0.005 pp+0.097 pp+12.7%
Apr 20261.047%+0.016 pp-0.467 pp-0.333 pp-0.232 pp+15.4%
Mar 20261.032%+0.044 pp-0.452 pp-0.381 pp-0.224 pp+16.3%
Feb 20260.988%-0.527 pp-0.418 pp-0.414 pp-0.320 pp+4.0%
Jan 20261.514%+0.030 pp+0.134 pp+0.119 pp+0.258 pp+11.2%
Dec 20251.484%+0.078 pp+0.072 pp+0.104 pp+0.329 pp+17.8%
Nov 20251.406%+0.025 pp+0.004 pp+0.092 pp+0.205 pp+8.0%
Oct 20251.381%-0.032 pp-0.015 pp+0.101 pp+0.268 pp+17.2%
Sep 20251.412%+0.010 pp+0.032 pp+0.156 pp+0.403 pp+33.5%
Aug 20251.402%+0.006 pp+0.088 pp+0.094 pp+0.345 pp+28.6%
Jul 20251.396%+0.016 pp+0.117 pp+0.139 pp+0.607 pp+26.3%
Jun 20251.380%+0.066 pp+0.124 pp+0.225 pp+0.584 pp+26.1%
May 20251.314%+0.035 pp+0.006 pp+0.113 pp+0.499 pp+16.9%
Apr 20251.279%+0.023 pp+0.023 pp+0.167 pp+0.097 pp+13.1%
Mar 20251.256%-0.052 pp+0.101 pp+0.246 pp+0.119 pp+16.6%
Feb 20251.308%+0.051 pp+0.107 pp+0.251 pp+0.223 pp+30.3%
Jan 20251.256%+0.101 pp+0.144 pp+0.468 pp+0.149 pp+31.6%
Dec 20241.155%-0.046 pp+0.145 pp+0.360 pp-0.010 pp+16.4%
Nov 20241.201%+0.088 pp+0.144 pp+0.387 pp+0.133 pp+31.6%
Oct 20241.113%+0.103 pp+0.324 pp-0.070 pp+0.078 pp+23.8%
Sep 20241.010%-0.047 pp+0.214 pp-0.127 pp-0.105 pp+4.1%
Aug 20241.057%+0.268 pp+0.242 pp-0.028 pp-0.050 pp+7.7%
Jul 20240.788%-0.007 pp-0.394 pp-0.319 pp-0.039 pp+4.3%
Jun 20240.796%-0.019 pp-0.342 pp-0.370 pp-0.002 pp+8.6%
May 20240.814%-0.368 pp-0.270 pp-0.253 pp-0.004 pp+9.5%
Apr 20241.182%+0.045 pp+0.075 pp+0.147 pp-0.011 pp+4.1%
Mar 20241.137%+0.052 pp-0.028 pp+0.023 pp-0.040 pp+1.8%
Feb 20241.085%-0.023 pp+0.017 pp-0.022 pp-0.336 pp-19.6%
Jan 20241.107%-0.058 pp+0.072 pp+0.280 pp-0.304 pp-16.2%
Dec 20231.165%+0.097 pp+0.051 pp+0.368 pp-0.243 pp-13.4%
Nov 20231.068%+0.033 pp-0.038 pp+0.250 pp-0.356 pp-22.4%
Oct 20231.035%-0.079 pp+0.207 pp-0.158 pp-0.338 pp-24.8%
Sep 20231.114%+0.008 pp+0.317 pp-0.063 pp-0.260 pp-16.6%
Aug 20231.106%+0.279 pp+0.288 pp-0.314 pp-0.231 pp-14.2%
Jul 20230.828%+0.030 pp-0.366 pp-0.584 pp-0.449 pp-4.2%
Jun 20230.798%-0.021 pp-0.379 pp-0.611 pp-0.506 pp-6.6%
May 20230.818%-0.375 pp-0.602 pp-0.606 pp-0.528 pp-7.4%
Apr 20231.193%+0.016 pp-0.218 pp-0.179 pp-0.081 pp+2.6%
Mar 20231.177%-0.243 pp-0.231 pp-0.197 pp-0.165 pp-2.2%
Feb 20231.420%+0.009 pp-0.004 pp+0.082 pp+0.003 pp+13.2%
Jan 20231.411%+0.003 pp+0.039 pp+0.135 pp-0.060 pp+7.1%
Dec 20221.408%-0.016 pp+0.034 pp+0.105 pp+0.020 pp+15.2%
Nov 20221.424%+0.051 pp+0.086 pp+0.078 pp+0.013 pp+18.2%
Oct 20221.373%-0.001 pp+0.096 pp+0.098 pp-0.117 pp+11.1%
Sep 20221.374%+0.036 pp+0.071 pp+0.032 pp-0.071 pp+9.8%
Aug 20221.338%+0.061 pp-0.008 pp-0.079 pp-0.122 pp+4.6%
Jul 20221.276%-0.027 pp+0.002 pp-0.195 pp-0.114 pp+5.1%
Jun 20221.303%-0.043 pp-0.039 pp-0.085 pp-0.128 pp+0.6%
May 20221.346%+0.072 pp-0.071 pp-0.065 pp-0.097 pp+2.4%
Apr 20221.275%-0.067 pp-0.197 pp-0.216 pp-0.077 pp+2.4%
Mar 20221.342%-0.075 pp-0.046 pp-0.103 pp+0.659 pp+8.9%
Feb 20221.417%-0.054 pp+0.006 pp-0.043 pp+0.737 pp+13.5%
Jan 20221.472%+0.084 pp-0.018 pp+0.082 pp+0.777 pp+34.8%
Dec 20211.388%-0.023 pp-0.057 pp-0.043 pp+0.207 pp+26.9%
Nov 20211.411%-0.079 pp-0.049 pp-0.032 pp+0.297 pp+35.1%
Oct 20211.490%+0.045 pp+0.100 pp+0.138 pp+0.539 pp+56.9%
Sep 20211.445%-0.015 pp+0.014 pp+0.762 pp+1.444 pp+57.7%
Aug 20211.460%+0.070 pp+0.017 pp+0.780 pp+1.459 pp+59.6%
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.