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Life & Health Insurance

Life & Health Insurance is losing market weight. Gained weight for 1 consecutive month.

Historical time machine
Historical observation
20182026
Reversing downwardBroad

The loss is shared across much of the industry.

Universe weight
0.44%
$0.20T
12-month change
-0.06 pp
6-month change
+0.11 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

Company attribution
All other companies-0.042 pp
Industry total-0.058 pp

The three largest same-direction contributors explain 67% 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

Dec 2019 – Nov 2024 · market weight (%)

0.00.40.720202021202220232024

Relative performance

Industry return versus ACWI · no future data shown

709612320202021202220232024

Is participation broad or concentrated?

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

Above their 3M universe-weight average40%
Above their 6M universe-weight average100%
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-0.06 pp
Relative strength · 12M+6.8%
Price index return · 12M+35.1%
Earnings revisions · unavailable0.0
Allocation lost 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
Globe Life →
GL
Life & Health InsuranceUnited States0.021%-0.016 pp-8.8%0.0
MetLife →
MET
Life & Health InsuranceUnited States0.135%-0.012 pp+43.0%0.0
Aflac →
AFL
Life & Health InsuranceUnited States0.140%-0.011 pp+40.8%0.0
Principal Financial Group →
PFG
Life & Health InsuranceUnited States0.044%-0.011 pp+21.1%0.0
Prudential Financial →
PRU
Life & Health InsuranceUnited States0.102%-0.008 pp+38.3%0.0
Underlying monthly industry observations
MonthWeight1M change3M change6M change12M changeRelative return · 12M
Nov 20240.441%+0.005 pp-0.013 pp+0.111 pp-0.058 pp+6.8%
Oct 20240.436%-0.013 pp+0.111 pp-0.042 pp-0.081 pp+0.2%
Sep 20240.449%-0.004 pp+0.133 pp-0.040 pp-0.069 pp+2.5%
Aug 20240.453%+0.128 pp+0.123 pp-0.026 pp-0.043 pp+6.0%
Jul 20240.325%+0.009 pp-0.153 pp-0.177 pp-0.018 pp+7.2%
Jun 20240.316%-0.014 pp-0.173 pp-0.175 pp-0.023 pp+4.8%
May 20240.330%-0.148 pp-0.149 pp-0.169 pp+0.006 pp+15.4%
Apr 20240.478%-0.011 pp-0.024 pp-0.039 pp-0.031 pp+1.6%
Mar 20240.490%+0.011 pp-0.002 pp-0.028 pp+0.001 pp+8.4%
Feb 20240.479%-0.023 pp-0.020 pp-0.017 pp-0.110 pp-12.1%
Jan 20240.502%+0.011 pp-0.015 pp+0.159 pp-0.100 pp-9.0%
Dec 20230.491%-0.007 pp-0.026 pp+0.153 pp-0.123 pp-14.4%
Nov 20230.499%-0.019 pp+0.003 pp+0.174 pp-0.106 pp-12.8%
Oct 20230.517%-0.001 pp+0.174 pp+0.008 pp-0.093 pp-13.5%
Sep 20230.518%+0.022 pp+0.179 pp+0.029 pp-0.046 pp-3.3%
Aug 20230.496%+0.153 pp+0.172 pp-0.092 pp-0.050 pp-3.4%
Jul 20230.343%+0.004 pp-0.166 pp-0.260 pp-0.182 pp-0.8%
Jun 20230.339%+0.015 pp-0.150 pp-0.276 pp-0.241 pp-8.3%
May 20230.324%-0.185 pp-0.264 pp-0.281 pp-0.258 pp-12.8%
Apr 20230.509%+0.020 pp-0.093 pp-0.101 pp-0.067 pp-0.0%
Mar 20230.489%-0.099 pp-0.126 pp-0.075 pp-0.095 pp-3.2%
Feb 20230.588%-0.014 pp-0.017 pp+0.042 pp+0.013 pp+19.7%
Jan 20230.602%-0.012 pp-0.008 pp+0.078 pp+0.031 pp+23.1%
Dec 20220.615%+0.010 pp+0.050 pp+0.035 pp+0.100 pp+41.8%
Nov 20220.605%-0.005 pp+0.059 pp+0.023 pp+0.096 pp+45.3%
Oct 20220.610%+0.046 pp+0.085 pp+0.034 pp+0.080 pp+47.3%
Sep 20220.564%+0.018 pp-0.015 pp-0.019 pp+0.021 pp+27.8%
Aug 20220.546%+0.021 pp-0.036 pp-0.029 pp+0.012 pp+24.4%
Jul 20220.525%-0.055 pp-0.052 pp-0.046 pp-0.001 pp+21.4%
Jun 20220.580%-0.003 pp-0.004 pp+0.065 pp+0.028 pp+23.8%
May 20220.582%+0.006 pp+0.007 pp+0.073 pp-0.014 pp+14.4%
Apr 20220.576%-0.007 pp+0.005 pp+0.047 pp-0.006 pp+15.2%
Mar 20220.584%+0.008 pp+0.069 pp+0.040 pp+0.287 pp+17.3%
Feb 20220.575%+0.004 pp+0.066 pp+0.041 pp+0.289 pp+17.3%
Jan 20220.571%+0.056 pp+0.041 pp+0.046 pp+0.262 pp+26.5%
Dec 20210.515%+0.006 pp-0.029 pp-0.037 pp-0.003 pp+15.6%
Nov 20210.509%-0.021 pp-0.025 pp-0.087 pp-0.025 pp+9.6%
Oct 20210.530%-0.014 pp+0.005 pp-0.052 pp+0.043 pp+22.4%
Sep 20210.544%+0.009 pp-0.008 pp+0.247 pp+0.543 pp+26.9%
Aug 20210.534%+0.009 pp-0.063 pp+0.247 pp+0.534 pp+24.9%
Jul 20210.525%-0.026 pp-0.057 pp+0.216 pp+0.525 pp+17.6%
Jun 20210.552%-0.045 pp+0.255 pp+0.034 pp+0.551 pp+17.3%
May 20210.597%+0.015 pp+0.310 pp+0.062 pp+0.596 pp+23.6%
Apr 20210.582%+0.286 pp+0.273 pp+0.095 pp+0.004 pp+13.9%
Mar 20210.296%+0.010 pp-0.222 pp+0.296 pp+0.296 pp+17.3%
Feb 20210.287%-0.022 pp-0.248 pp+0.286 pp+0.286 pp-3.1%
Jan 20210.309%-0.209 pp-0.178 pp+0.309 pp-0.412 pp-19.6%
Dec 20200.518%-0.016 pp+0.517 pp+0.517 pp-0.218 pp-21.5%
Nov 20200.534%+0.047 pp+0.534 pp+0.534 pp-0.223 pp-22.0%
Oct 20200.487%+0.487 pp+0.487 pp-0.091 pp-0.268 pp-27.8%
Sep 20200.001%-0.000 pp-0.000 pp+0.000 pp-0.772 pp-30.6%
Aug 20200.001%+0.000 pp-0.000 pp+0.000 pp-0.736 pp-26.7%
Jul 20200.001%-0.000 pp-0.578 pp-0.721 pp-0.815 pp-31.6%
Jun 20200.001%-0.000 pp+0.000 pp-0.736 pp-0.835 pp-30.5%
May 20200.001%-0.578 pp+0.000 pp-0.756 pp-0.835 pp-27.8%
Apr 20200.578%+0.578 pp-0.143 pp-0.177 pp-0.260 pp-22.2%
Mar 20200.000%-0.000 pp-0.736 pp-0.772 pp-0.797 pp-22.2%
Feb 20200.001%-0.721 pp-0.756 pp-0.736 pp-0.829 pp-12.3%
Jan 20200.721%-0.015 pp-0.034 pp-0.095 pp+0.250 pp-4.6%
Dec 20190.736%-0.021 pp-0.036 pp-0.100 pp+0.273 pp-1.5%
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.