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Life Sciences Tools & Services

Life Sciences Tools & Services is gaining market weight. Gained weight for 1 consecutive month.

Historical time machine
Historical observation
20182026
Gaining steadilyConcentrated

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

Universe weight
1.55%
$0.25T
12-month change
+0.03 pp
6-month change
+0.03 pp
3-month change
+0.01 pp
Company participation
43%
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-0.020 pp
Industry total+0.034 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

Jan 2018 – Jun 2018 · market weight (%)

1.51.51.52018

Relative performance

Industry return versus ACWI · no future data shown

991011022018

Is participation broad or concentrated?

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

Above their 3M universe-weight average57%
Above their 6M universe-weight average43%
Above their 12M universe-weight average0%
Top 5 share of current industry market cap88.3%

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+0.03 pp
Relative strength · 12M+2.0%
Price index return · 12M-3.7%
Earnings revisions · unavailable0.0
Allocation gained weight while relative performance rose. Fewer than 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
Illumina, Inc. →
ILMN
Life Sciences Tools & ServicesUnited States0.242%+0.054 pp+20.1%0.0
Agilent Technologies →
A
Life Sciences Tools & ServicesUnited States0.120%-0.015 pp-15.6%0.0
Danaher Corporation →
DHR
Life Sciences Tools & ServicesUnited States0.371%+0.015 pp-2.2%0.0
Mettler Toledo →
MTD
Life Sciences Tools & ServicesUnited States0.089%-0.009 pp-14.3%0.0
Thermo Fisher Scientific →
TMO
Life Sciences Tools & ServicesUnited States0.506%-0.007 pp-7.4%0.0
Waters Corporation →
WAT
Life Sciences Tools & ServicesUnited States0.092%-0.006 pp-10.2%0.0
IQVIA →
IQV
Life Sciences Tools & ServicesUnited States0.126%+0.003 pp-2.3%0.0
Underlying monthly industry observations
MonthWeight1M change3M change6M change12M changeRelative return · 12M
Jun 20181.546%+0.007 pp+0.014 pp+0.034 pp+0.034 pp+2.0%
May 20181.539%-0.005 pp+0.033 pp+0.027 pp+0.027 pp+0.9%
Apr 20181.545%+0.013 pp+0.032 pp+0.032 pp+0.032 pp+0.4%
Mar 20181.531%+0.025 pp+0.019 pp+0.019 pp+0.019 pp+0.1%
Feb 20181.506%-0.006 pp-0.006 pp-0.006 pp-0.006 pp-0.8%
Jan 20181.512%+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.