Biotechnology
Biotechnology is gaining market weight. Gained weight for 1 consecutive month.
Most of this industry's gains came from a few companies.
Where did the weight change come from?
12-month contribution in universe percentage points · contributions add to the industry change
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 – Feb 2018 · market weight (%)
Relative performance
Industry return versus ACWI · no future data shown
Is participation broad or concentrated?
Actual constituent counts at this date, not the legacy synthetic breadth proxy
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
Other evidence and availability
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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
| Company | Sub-industry | Country | Universe weight | 12M contribution | 12M price return | Revisions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AbbVie → ABBV | Biotechnology | United States | 1.102% | +0.080 pp | +3.2% | 0.0 |
| Biogen → BIIB | Biotechnology | United States | 0.366% | -0.053 pp | -16.9% | 0.0 |
| Amgen → AMGN | Biotechnology | United States | 0.794% | +0.023 pp | -0.5% | 0.0 |
| Regeneron Pharmaceuticals → REGN | Biotechnology | United States | 0.180% | -0.016 pp | -12.6% | 0.0 |
| Vertex Pharmaceuticals → VRTX | Biotechnology | United States | 0.253% | +0.012 pp | -0.5% | 0.0 |
| Gilead Sciences → GILD | Biotechnology | United States | 0.618% | -0.006 pp | -6.1% | 0.0 |
| Incyte → INCY | Biotechnology | United States | 0.108% | -0.001 pp | -5.7% | 0.0 |
Underlying monthly industry observations
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.