Life Sciences Tools & Services
Life Sciences Tools & Services is gaining market weight. Gained weight for 2 consecutive months.
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 79% 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 2019 · 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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thermo Fisher Scientific → TMO | Life Sciences Tools & Services | United States | 0.627% | +0.118 pp | +33.0% | 0.0 |
| Danaher Corporation → DHR | Life Sciences Tools & Services | United States | 0.472% | +0.100 pp | +35.7% | 0.0 |
| Illumina, Inc. → ILMN | Life Sciences Tools & Services | United States | 0.255% | +0.048 pp | +31.4% | 0.0 |
| IQVIA → IQV | Life Sciences Tools & Services | United States | 0.163% | +0.038 pp | +46.6% | 0.0 |
| Agilent Technologies → A | Life Sciences Tools & Services | United States | 0.147% | +0.014 pp | +21.3% | 0.0 |
| Mettler Toledo → MTD | Life Sciences Tools & Services | United States | 0.103% | +0.013 pp | +25.7% | 0.0 |
| Waters Corporation → WAT | Life Sciences Tools & Services | United States | 0.103% | +0.007 pp | +26.7% | 0.0 |
Underlying monthly industry observations
| Month | Weight | 1M change | 3M change | 6M change | 12M change | Relative return · 12M |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2019 | 1.871% | +0.048 pp | +0.904 pp | +0.923 pp | +0.339 pp | +29.1% |
| Feb 2019 | 1.823% | +0.861 pp | +0.839 pp | +0.894 pp | +0.317 pp | +27.7% |
| Jan 2019 | 0.962% | -0.005 pp | +0.032 pp | -0.675 pp | -0.550 pp | +19.4% |
| Dec 2018 | 0.967% | -0.017 pp | +0.020 pp | -0.579 pp | -0.545 pp | +19.6% |
| Nov 2018 | 0.984% | +0.054 pp | +0.055 pp | -0.555 pp | -0.528 pp | +21.4% |
| Oct 2018 | 0.930% | -0.018 pp | -0.707 pp | -0.615 pp | -0.582 pp | +14.1% |
| Sep 2018 | 0.947% | +0.018 pp | -0.598 pp | -0.584 pp | -0.565 pp | +14.5% |
| Aug 2018 | 0.929% | -0.707 pp | -0.610 pp | -0.577 pp | -0.583 pp | +11.5% |
| Jul 2018 | 1.637% | +0.091 pp | +0.092 pp | +0.125 pp | +0.125 pp | +9.3% |
| Jun 2018 | 1.546% | +0.007 pp | +0.014 pp | +0.034 pp | +0.034 pp | +2.0% |
| May 2018 | 1.539% | -0.005 pp | +0.033 pp | +0.027 pp | +0.027 pp | +0.9% |
| Apr 2018 | 1.545% | +0.013 pp | +0.032 pp | +0.032 pp | +0.032 pp | +0.4% |
| Mar 2018 | 1.531% | +0.025 pp | +0.019 pp | +0.019 pp | +0.019 pp | +0.1% |
| Feb 2018 | 1.506% | -0.006 pp | -0.006 pp | -0.006 pp | -0.006 pp | -0.8% |
| Jan 2018 | 1.512% | +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.