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Health Care Equipment

Health Care Equipment is gaining market weight. Gained weight for 2 consecutive months.

Historical time machine
Historical observation
20182026
AcceleratingBroad

The gain is shared across much of the industry.

Universe weight
2.92%
$0.48T
12-month change
+0.10 pp
6-month change
+0.10 pp
3-month change
+0.10 pp
Company participation
83%
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+0.067 pp
Industry total+0.096 pp

The three largest same-direction contributors explain 64% 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 – Mar 2018 · market weight (%)

2.82.92.92018

Relative performance

Industry return versus ACWI · no future data shown

1001001012018

Is participation broad or concentrated?

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

Above their 3M universe-weight average83%
Above their 6M universe-weight average83%
Above their 12M universe-weight average0%
Top 5 share of current industry market cap74.6%

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+0.10 pp
Relative strength · 12M+0.9%
Price index return · 12M-5.0%
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
Becton Dickinson →
BDX
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.271%+0.029 pp-10.5%0.0
Abbott Laboratories →
ABT
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.642%+0.025 pp-3.6%0.0
Stryker Corporation →
SYK
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.370%+0.019 pp-1.8%0.0
Boston Scientific →
BSX
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.230%+0.011 pp-2.3%0.0
Zimmer Biomet →
ZBH
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.132%-0.011 pp-14.0%0.0
Idexx Laboratories →
IDXX
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.102%+0.009 pp+2.3%0.0
Edwards Lifesciences →
EW
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.060%+0.009 pp+10.2%0.0
Baxter International →
BAX
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.216%-0.008 pp-9.5%0.0
ResMed| →
RMD
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.086%+0.004 pp-1.9%0.0
Medtronic →
MDT
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.667%+0.004 pp-6.1%0.0
Intuitive Surgical →
ISRG
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.095%+0.003 pp-4.4%0.0
Revvity →
RVTY
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.051%+0.001 pp-5.5%0.0
Underlying monthly industry observations
MonthWeight1M change3M change6M change12M changeRelative return · 12M
Mar 20182.923%+0.045 pp+0.096 pp+0.096 pp+0.096 pp+0.9%
Feb 20182.878%+0.051 pp+0.051 pp+0.051 pp+0.051 pp+0.0%
Jan 20182.827%+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.