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Health Care Equipment

Health Care Equipment is losing market weight. Lost weight for 1 consecutive month.

Historical time machine
Historical observation
20182026
Reversing upwardBroad

The loss is shared across much of the industry.

Universe weight
1.82%
$0.55T
12-month change
-1.01 pp
6-month change
-1.29 pp
3-month change
+0.02 pp
Company participation
58%
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
Medtronic →-0.272 pp
All other companies-0.737 pp
Industry total-1.008 pp

The three largest same-direction contributors explain 59% 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

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 · market weight (%)

1.82.53.120182019

Relative performance

Industry return versus ACWI · no future data shown

10111212320182019

Is participation broad or concentrated?

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

Above their 3M universe-weight average58%
Above their 6M universe-weight average58%
Above their 12M universe-weight average0%
Top 5 share of current industry market cap75.7%

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-1.01 pp
Relative strength · 12M+19.6%
Price index return · 12M+11.1%
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
Medtronic →
MDT
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.392%-0.272 pp+4.7%0.0
Abbott Laboratories →
ABT
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.423%-0.194 pp+19.5%0.0
Stryker Corporation →
SYK
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.219%-0.132 pp+9.3%0.0
Baxter International →
BAX
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.127%-0.097 pp+1.7%0.0
Becton Dickinson →
BDX
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.169%-0.073 pp+4.0%0.0
Zimmer Biomet →
ZBH
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.072%-0.071 pp-13.1%0.0
Boston Scientific →
BSX
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.174%-0.045 pp+36.4%0.0
ResMed| →
RMD
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.045%-0.037 pp-4.2%0.0
Idexx Laboratories →
IDXX
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.061%-0.033 pp+13.8%0.0
Intuitive Surgical →
ISRG
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.066%-0.026 pp+21.3%0.0
Revvity →
RVTY
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.033%-0.017 pp+13.3%0.0
Edwards Lifesciences →
EW
Health Care EquipmentUnited States0.039%-0.012 pp+34.6%0.0
Underlying monthly industry observations
MonthWeight1M change3M change6M change12M changeRelative return · 12M
Jan 20191.819%-0.071 pp+0.024 pp-1.294 pp-1.008 pp+19.6%
Dec 20181.890%+0.012 pp+0.027 pp-1.214 pp-0.937 pp+23.7%
Nov 20181.878%+0.083 pp+0.079 pp-1.188 pp-0.950 pp+22.5%
Oct 20181.795%-0.069 pp-1.318 pp-1.184 pp-1.033 pp+16.4%
Sep 20181.863%+0.064 pp-1.241 pp-1.060 pp-0.964 pp+18.9%
Aug 20181.799%-1.314 pp-1.266 pp-1.079 pp-1.028 pp+13.9%
Jul 20183.113%+0.009 pp+0.134 pp+0.285 pp+0.285 pp+9.8%
Jun 20183.104%+0.039 pp+0.181 pp+0.277 pp+0.277 pp+8.3%
May 20183.065%+0.087 pp+0.187 pp+0.238 pp+0.238 pp+6.2%
Apr 20182.978%+0.055 pp+0.151 pp+0.151 pp+0.151 pp+2.4%
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.